KVUE-TV Austin reported that Texas Gov. Abbott signed an order designating drug cartels as terrorist organizations. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is cracking down on dangerous drugs crossing the border into Texas. Abbott signed an executive order on Wednesday making that designation of the Mexican drug cartels. The details supplied in the above-cited article are horrific. “The governor said drug cartels are disguising fentanyl as counterfeit pills and even targeting children with colored drugs called “rainbow fentanyl pills.”

The report elaborates that additional strategies must be implemented. Abbott said seizing the drugs is not enough to protect Texans. Thus, he is directing the Department of Public Safety to do more. “We have to move beyond just the seizure of it,” he said at a roundtable event in Midland on Wednesday. “We need to get to those who are the source providers of it and to the distributors of it here in Texas.” See embedded video of Abbott’s news conference.

As reported, Abbott is asking law enforcement agencies to identify Texas gangs that support Mexican drug cartels and seize their assets to disrupt cartel networks in Texas. Abbott said he also sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris “demanding they too declare Mexican drug cartels operating in Texas as terrorist organizations. Those include the Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel, as well as others producing and distributing fentanyl.”

Describing fentanyl is a “clandestine killer,” Abbott amplified his remarks. “Texans are falling victim to the Mexican cartels that are producing it. Cartels are terrorists, and it’s time we treated them that way.”  Abbott offered stunning if not chilling piece of data. “In fact, more Americans died from fentanyl poisoning in the past year than all terrorist attacks across the globe in the past 100 years. In order to save our country, particularly our next generation, we must do more to get fentanyl off our streets.”