Trump Administration Shouldn’t Designate Drug Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations

The Trump administration issued an executive order (EO) on January 20, 2025, to create a process to designate some international criminal organizations and drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs). There have been no updates to the State Department’s list of FTOs yet. To be designated an FTO, the State Department’s Bureau of Counterterrorism (SDBCT) must demonstrate that the […]