birth defects, and other maladies that are devastating communities across the United States. (22) The national security threat posed by Mexican cartels and other transnational criminal organizations extends beyond the sale of fentanyl and other drugs, as these organizations have also shown a lethal willingness to protect their business by any means necessary, including organizing Armed Forces to fight both their rivals and the Government of Mexico, creating a dangerous and unstable situation on the southern border of the United States with innocent people of the United States caught in the crossfire. (23) The chaos and calamity caused by Mexican cartels and other transnational criminal organizations at the southern border teeters on all-out war, with the Government of Mexico deploying more than 200,000 Federal troops to fight the cartels, and even with that military presence, the kidnaping, decapitations, and terror continue, including on and near United States soil. (24) According to statistics of the United Nations, the homicide rate in the United States Southern Command’s Area of Responsibility was a staggering 15.7 per 100,000 in 2020, out of a global average of 5.6 per 100,000, no doubt due to the violence of transnational criminal organizations in the region. (25) The Department of State has already recognized the reality of the terror caused by Mexican cartels, issuing its highest level of travel warning for all but 2 of Mexico’s 32 States due to increased threats of crime and kidnaping and having already named Colombia-based groups like the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC–EP), Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Segunda Marquetalia (FARC–SM), and the National Liberation Army (ELN) as foreign terrorist organizations. (26) There are already known links between transnational criminal organizations and designated foreign terrorist organizations, such as Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, Hamas, and the Islamic State. (27) Existing counter-narcotics efforts under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin