<p>Former Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr">William Barr</a> implied Friday that the United States should take care of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cartels">drug cartels</a> south of the border with the same ferocity used to all but wipe the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/isis">Islamic State</a> off the face of the earth.</p>
<p>Appearing on Newsmax, Barr told Greta Van Susteren that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration">Biden administration&#8217;s</a> strategy against the illicit international criminal organizations is not working.</p>
<p>&#8220;They are effectively terrorist organizations,&#8221; Barr <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/newsmaxtv-billbarr-mexicancartels/2022/07/22/id/1080025/">told</a> the host of &#8220;The Record With Greta Van Susteren,&#8221; referring to drug cartels. &#8220;They are increasingly building their connections with terrorists. Their paramilitary can take on the Mexican military, and they have so much money they can corrupt any system.&#8221;</p>
<p>Barr added, &#8220;The United States [has been] relegated to working through Mexico to try to deal with the cartels, and I think that&#8217;s a losing proposition.&#8221;</p>
<p>The former attorney general declared that these nefarious actors should be treated &#8220;more like ISIS and less like the mafia.&#8221;</p>
<p>Under his old boss, former President Donald Trump, the U.S. military <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/donald-trump?source=%2Fheres-how-much-ground-isis-has-lost-since-trump-took-over%2Farticle%2F2644137">liberated</a> millions of people from ISIS while dwindling their control of land in the Middle East. Military leaders <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/donald-trump?source=%2Fheres-how-much-ground-isis-has-lost-since-trump-took-over%2Farticle%2F2644137">credited</a> Trump&#8217;s aggressive but non-micromanaging approach to that success at the time.</p>
<p>“We don&#8217;t get second-guessed a lot. Our judgment here on the battlefield in the forward areas is trusted. And we don&#8217;t get 20 questions with every action that happens on the battlefield and every action that we take,” Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend said in 2017, The Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/donald-trump?source=%2Fheres-how-much-ground-isis-has-lost-since-trump-took-over%2Farticle%2F2644137">reported</a>.</p>
<p>“Commanders now &#8230; aren&#8217;t constantly calling back to higher headquarters asking for permission,” he <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/donald-trump?source=%2Fheres-how-much-ground-isis-has-lost-since-trump-took-over%2Farticle%2F2644137">explained</a>. “They&#8217;re free to act.”</p>
<p>Brett McGurk, a White House special envoy under both President Barack Obama and Trump, credited that change in tactic for Trump&#8217;s success against ISIS.</p>
<p>“These delegations of tactical authorities from the president has really made a difference on the ground,” McGurk <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/donald-trump?source=%2Fheres-how-much-ground-isis-has-lost-since-trump-took-over%2Farticle%2F2644137">said</a> in 2017. “I&#8217;ve seen that with my own eyes.”</p>
<p>Currently, the Biden administration has &#8220;essentially abandoned the border&#8221; to the cartels, according to Barr. Barr also said these cartels are bringing in &#8220;poison&#8221; responsible for more than 100,000 American deaths per year. Last fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/20211117.htm">announced</a> that fentanyl was a leading cause of death in the opioid crisis in 2020. The federal government has <a href="https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf">reported</a> that the &#8220;Sinaloa and the New Generation Jalisco (Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación or CJNG) cartels are likely the primary trafficking groups responsible for smuggling fentanyl&#8221; into the U.S. from Mexico.</p>
<p>Recently, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador met with Biden at the White House in what was largely <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/infamous-cartel-boss-with-20m-bounty-nabbed-in-mexico">considered</a> to be an effort to repair relations after López Obrador snubbed the U.S.-led Summit of the Americas in June. The meeting focused on the worsening immigration crisis at the U.S. southern border.</p>

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