Trump tells former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly he will classify Mexican drug cartels as terrorists in the US

Date: Nov 27 2019

  • President Donald Trump said in an interview with conservative media personality Bill O’Reilly that he would designate Mexican drug cartels as terror groups. 
  • “I don’t want to say what I’m going to do, but they will be designated,” Trump responded. “I have been working on that for the last 90 days. 
  • Designating cartels as terror groups would ban then from entering the US and would allow the Secretary of the Treasury to freeze the group’s assets.  
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President Donald Trump said he would designate drug cartels as terror groups, though he declined to say what action he would take against them once the declaration was made.