IA 

118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. J. RES. 95 

Declaring a state of war between certain cartels and the United States 

of America and making provision to prosecute the same. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 11, 2023 

Ms. GREENE of Georgia submitted the following joint resolution 

OCTOBER 25, 2023 

Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

JOINT RESOLUTION 

Declaring a state of war between certain cartels and the 

United States of America and making provision to prosecute the same. 

Whereas over 7,580,000 illegal border crossers from over 160 

countries have invaded our country since 2021; 

Whereas, in August 2023, over 304,000 illegal border crossers invaded our country, surpassing all national records 

for monthly encounters; 

Whereas there have been approximately 1,600,000 known 

‘‘got-aways’’ who have evaded United States authorities; 

Whereas many of these illegal border crossers are militaryaged men, are on the United States terrorist watchlist, 


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and are gang members who are killing Americans and are 

a direct threat to our national security; 

Whereas the Mexican cartels are executing the complete invasion of our country; 

Whereas fentanyl is the number one killer of Americans between the ages of 18 and 45; 

Whereas fentanyl kills approximately 300 Americans a day; 

Whereas, to date in fiscal year 2023, the U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection has seized approximately 24,000 

pounds of fentanyl attempting to be smuggled into the 

United States; this is enough fentanyl to kill every single 

American 15 times over; 

Whereas, according to the United States Drug Enforcement 

Administration (DEA), the Sinaloa Cartel, Jalisco New 

Generation Cartel, Beltran-Leyva Organization, Los 

Zetas and Cartel del Noreste, Guerreros Unidos, the Gulf 

Cartel, Juarez Cartel and La Linea, La Familia 

Michoaca ́na, and the Los Rojos have the greatest drug 

trafficking impact on the United States; 

Whereas the DEA’s top operational priority is to defeat the 

Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation Mexican drug cartels, both of which have been declared to be the greatest 

criminal drug threat the United States has ever faced; 

Whereas these ruthless, violent, criminal organizations have 

associates, facilitators, and brokers in all 50 States of the 

United States; 

Whereas the Mexican cartels employ an estimated 175,000 

members; 

Whereas human trafficking is a $150 billion dollar-a-year industry; 


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Whereas the United States is one of the top destinations for 

human trafficking; 

Whereas the cartels made approximately $13 billion just from 

human trafficking and smuggling in 2021; 

Whereas human trafficking cases in the United States increased drastically in fiscal year 2022, with arrests increasing by 50 percent and convictions by 80 percent; 

Whereas, in February 2021 alone, Border Patrol estimated 

that the cartels made $14,000,000 per day smuggling illegal aliens across the border; 

Whereas the cartels charge illegal border crossers between 

$10,000 and $70,000 per person to cross our border illegally and invade our country; 

Whereas the Sinaloa Cartel employs gatekeepers assigned to 

Ports of Entry and controls the Arizona and California 

smuggling corridors into the United States; 

Whereas former special agent for DEA’s Special Operations 

Division testified under oath that the cartels have ‘‘total 

control’’ over the United States southern border; 

Whereas, in March 2022, inside 4 houses controlled by a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel in the northern state of Sonora, the Mexican army recovered 2,800,000 rounds of 

ammunition, 89 hand grenades, 20 machine guns, 6.50 

caliber sniper rifles, more than 150 handguns and automatic rifles, and bulletproof vests; 

Whereas, in May 2022, United States authorities broke up a 

Cartel del Noreste scheme to buy $500,000 worth of machine guns, grenades, and rocket-propelled launchers to 

be smuggled south from the United States into Mexico; 


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Whereas, according to the American Sheriff Alliance, 

transnational criminal organizations like the cartels and 

gangs are directly responsible for the increases in deaths, 

human trafficking, sex trafficking, and unprecedented violence occurring in cities and counties across our Nation; 

and 

Whereas, by the acts of the Sinaloa Cartel, the Jalisco New 

General Cartel, the Los Zetas and Cartel del Noreste, the 

Gulf Cartel, the Tijuana Cartel, the Juarez Cartel and 

La Linea, the Beltran-Levya Organization, the Guerreros 

Unidos, the Los Rojos, and La Familia Michoaca ́na (together, the ‘‘Cartels’’), a state of war exists between 

these Cartels and the United States of America: Now, 

therefore, be it 

1 Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives

2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. DECLARATION OF WAR. 

4 (a) Pursuant to Article 1, section 8 of the United 

5 States Constitution, the Congress hereby formally declares 

6 that a state of war exists between the United States and— 

7 (1) the Sinaloa Cartel; 

8 (2) the Jalisco New General Cartel; 

9 (3) the Los Zetas and Cartel del Noreste; 

10 (4) the Gulf Cartel; 

11 (5) the Tijuana Cartel; 

12 (6) the Juarez Cartel and La Linea; 

13 (7) the Beltran-Levya Organization; 

14 (8) the Guerreros Unidos; 


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1 (9) the Los Rojos; and 

2 (10) La Familia Michoaca ́na and Knights Tem3 plar Cartel. 

4 (b) The President is hereby authorized and directed 

5 to employ the entire naval and military forces of the 

6 United States and the resources of the Government to 

7 carry on war against such Cartels; and, to protect the citi8 zens of the United States, all of the resources of the coun9 try are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United 

10 States. 

11 SEC. 2. RECOGNITION OF MEXICO. 

12 That— 

13 (1) the United States is not in a state of war 

14 with the United Mexican States (Mexico); and 

15 (2) it is in the interest of the United States to 

16 work with the Government of Mexico to carry on 

17 war against such Cartels. 

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