Since I began my efforts to expose the threat of the Mexican drug cartels and introduce legislation to stop them, this issue has garnered national and international attention. And for good reason. 

At the national level, we’ve seen the cartel’s main product (fentanyl) rip our communities apart. Tens of thousands of Americans (a lot of young people) are deliberately poisoned every year when they take street drugs without knowing they’ve been laced with fentanyl. We’ve seen cartels capitalize on the chaos of our southern border and turn it into a human smuggling cash-cow that earns them billions of dollars. 

At the international level, we’ve finally gotten the attention of President AMLO of Mexico. President AMLO has done next to nothing to confront this threat. To make matters worse, AMLO denies that fentanyl is coming from his country, denies cartels are trafficking the drug into our country, and threatens to interfere in American elections against lawmakers like myself who introduce legislation to confront the cartels he protects. We’ve also put China on notice, as we’ve made clear that the precursors cartels use to make fentanyl are coming from one place: China, with the tacit permission of the Chinese Communist Party. 

I’ve introduced serious bills to confront the threat from the Mexican drug cartels, which you can read about in the story above. I will continue pushing for serious action against these narco-terrorists until the threat is neutralized.