Republicans introduced a bill Thursday that would require the Defense Department to draw up a plan to capture or kill the leadership of a deadly Mexican cartel responsible for smuggling vast amounts of drugs into the US.
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel has become one of the most murderous drug smuggling gangs in Mexico over the past decade. The group is infamous for trafficking cocaine and methamphetamine into the US, as well as for their gruesome murders.
In August, the gang filmed the murder of five childhood friends who were beheaded for not joining the cartel. One of the young men was forced to behead his friend before he was later murdered. They were all between 19 and 22 years old.
In response to the cartel’s growing influence and bloodshed, Republican veterans in the House of Representatives and the Senate have devised a plan to cut off the snake’s head.
The Jalisco Cartel Neutralization Act would require the Pentagon to submit plans to Congress on how to kill or capture the cartel’s top brass.
“The Jalisco Cartel, the most dangerous criminal organization in Mexico and the second most powerful drug cartel, must be identified and dismantled to protect the American people,” Republican Rep. Morgan Lutrell, the former Navy SEAL who introduced the bill, told DailyMail. .com in a statement.
Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel are known for their gruesome and bloody murders
The gang operates in most of the 32 Mexican states and US states, including DC
“Our border is being exploited by cartels as they conduct one of the most extensive human and drug smuggling operations in the world, leaving no part of our country untouched by the threat of cartel activity.”
The former SEAL said his bill makes clear that the cartel “cannot continue to be emboldened at our border.”
The US military ‘must be ready to attack and eliminate the Jalisco cartel’ Lutrell told DailyMail.com.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., who served five years in the military, is leading a companion bill in the Senate.
Cartel violence in Mexico has gotten so bad that a recent survey of more than 7,000 migrants streaming from the country to the U.S. found that 88 percent said they migrated to escape cartel violence.
Of those interviewed, 25 percent reported having at least one missing family member.
The newly introduced bill would require Pentagon officials to submit a report to Congress every 90 days on the progress of capturing or killing the leadership of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Rep. Luttrell deployed on multiple combat missions during his Navy career
A female member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel holds a sniper rifle
The cartel operates mainly from the Mexican states of Jalisco and Michoacan
“Mexican drug cartels continue to kill Americans at a rate higher than any terrorist group in history,” Cotton, who introduced the bill in the Senate on Thursday, told DailyMail.com.
“Even by drug cartel standards, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel is extremely violent and poses a direct threat to the safety of Americans in border states and beyond.”
“It is time for the Biden administration to develop a strategy to hold these killers accountable,” Cotton said.
Earlier this month, Lutrell introduced another bill to combat cartel influence.
The Defend Our Borders from Armed Invaders Act would allow the U.S. National Guard to use lethal force against individuals who enter the country armed.
The US government is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the capture or arrest of the murderous cartel’s leader, Nemesio ‘El Mencho’ Oseguera.
El Mencho set up the Jalisco New Generation Cartel operations in the western state of Jalisco after splitting from the Milenio Cartel and has since been in conflict with ten rival organizations.
Nemesio ‘El Mencho’ Oseguera’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel is seen by US authorities as one of the largest drug smugglers
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel is reported to operate advanced armored vehicles
Cartel members are often photographed armed with American-made weapons
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the drug lord’s network has built a presence in at least 27 of Mexico’s 32 states.
The cartel also operated in the country’s capital, Mexico City, where accomplices attempted to assassinate the police chief, Omar García Harfuch, in June 2020.
The DEA’s 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment Report named the organization as one of nine drug cartels that posed a major threat to the United States by flooding the streets with fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana.
At the time, the cartel’s influence across the border reached eleven states in the United States, including Hawaii, and the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.
Since then, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, along with its rival, the Sinaloa Cartel, has become a major producer and trafficker of fentanyl in the United States.