The ideas popped up in a recent Republican Senate candidate forum in Ohio.
ous is that?Republican U.S. Senate candidates Bernie Moreno, Matt Dolan and Frank LaRose appear at an Oct. 14, 2023 candidate forum at Weymouth Country Club in Medina. Moreno and LaRose said during the event that they'd back adding Mexican drug cartels to a list of foreign terrorist organizations, while Moreno called for sending the U.S. military into Mexico.
Todd Huntley, director of the Georgetown University Law Center’s national security law program, opposes designating the cartels terrorists. But he too said sending the military to Mexico isn’t a serious idea. Ali, the University of Michigan professor, says declaring the cartels terrorist organizations also carries a symbolic value that could have real consequences.
Then there’s the potential downsides: upsetting the Mexican government and damaging cooperation on related and unrelated issues, while also inflaming the cartels, perhaps driving them to begin attacking Americans or American-linked targets in Mexico or elsewhere. The Heritage Foundation has argued a designation also could cause more illegal immigration by allowing migrants to cite terrorism as a reason they should be allowed to remain in the U.S. while their asylum cases are being processed.
“We must use the full scale of U.S. power and influence to secure the border and stop the flow of fentanyl,” Dolan said in an email. “That includes the appropriate applications of our national defense capabilities, including military personnel at the border and cyber warfare to inflict maximum damage on cartel operations, leadership and infrastructure.”
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