“Mexico is being taken over by massive and powerful drug cartels, and these cartels have expanded their operations far beyond drug trafficking,” said Federalist Senior Editor John Daniel Davidson on Fox News. “They’re involved in mass industrial-scale extortion and kidnapping operations [and] migrant smuggling. They’re involved in major industries in Mexico. In some cases, they’ve taken over state and local governments. These are multi-national criminal syndicates operating inside what amounts to a failing state.”



