President Trump has announced that he will designate Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations in a major move towards the organizations.

According to The Daily Wire:

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday in an interview with Bill O’Reilly that he is going to designate the Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations, a move that gives the government officials more resources to combat entities that receive the designation.

“One of the things that you’ve said to me … is that if another country murdered 100,000 Americans with guns we would go to war with that country,” O’Reilly said. “Yet, the Mexican drug cartels kill more than 100,000 Americans every year by the importation of dangerous narcotics.”

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“So you are going to designate the Mexican cartels as terror groups?” O’Reilly pressed.

“Yeah, I will be,” Trump responded. “I have been working on that for the last 90 days. You know, designation is not that easy, you have to go through a process, and we are well into that process.”

President Trump says that he expects to be attacked for it but that he does not mind because he is attacked for everything anyway.