Cotton Statement on Designating Drug Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Caroline Tabler or Patrick McCann (202) 224-2353
February 19, 2025

Cotton Statement on Designating Drug Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations

Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement following President Trump’s Executive Order to designate murderous drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations:

“Drug cartels from Mexico and Venezuela have the blood of more Americans on their hands than any foreign adversary in American history. They are terrorists and they should be destroyed.”

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