McCarthy Endorses Designating Cartels as Terrorists, Using Military at Southern Border

Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has endorsed the idea of designating drug cartels as terrorist organizations and embedding at least “some” military forces at the border to facilitate efforts to secure the U.S. border against those cartels.
McCarthy discussed ways to combat the cartel during an interview last month with Breitbart News, which the publication released on Wednesday. Breitbart News discussed border security issues with McCarthy in the days after a group of four U.S. citizens were kidnapped, two of whom were killed in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
When Breitbart News host Matthew Boyle asked McCarthy about the idea of designating cartel organizations as foreign terrorist organizations, the House speaker replied, “I think you have to designate them.”…}