[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3807]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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         LABEL DRUG CARTELS AS FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, ``El Chapo'' Joaquin Guzman is the 
brutal head of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel. Chicago has named this 
killer drug lord Public Enemy No. 1. The last Public Enemy No. 1 was Al 
Capone, over 80 years ago.
  Even though this billionaire bandit from below the border is 
generally in other countries, his violent criminal drug cartel 
operation floods dope into Chicago and other American cities. Since our 
borders are still porous to drug cartels, cartels cross the border at 
will.
  El Chapo and his den of gun-toting smugglers are international 
terrorists. They have operations in every major city in the United 
States, including Chicago. Worldwide, his gang is credited with 50,000 
murders.
  Some say the Chicago murder rate has increased because of his cartel. 
David Riley, head of the Chicago DEA, said Guzman is more powerful than 
the former Chicago Mob.
  Mr. Speaker, Mexican drug cartels, like the Sinaloa cartel, should be 
labeled a foreign terrorist organization. Then we can better deal with 
international terrorist threats to America like Public Enemy No. 1, El 
Chapo.
  And that's just the way it is.

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