text:  And over the past year or so, influential Republicans have proposed bombing cartels in Mexico. Recently, J.D. Vance said he would favor declaring cartels foreign terrorist organizations, and that would open the door to military strikes in Mexico. In the past, the Mexican president has downplayed these threats. He says he's called them electoral games. But he also said that any action like that would be considered an invasion and that there would be an immediate response.