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 pros-
ecute 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 cross-
ers 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 military- 
aged 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 inva-
sion of our country; 
Whereas fentanyl is the number one killer of Americans be-
tween 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 car-
tels, 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 in-
dustry; 
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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 in-
creased drastically in fiscal year 2022, with arrests in-
creasing 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 il-
legal aliens across the border; 
Whereas the cartels charge illegal border crossers between 
$10,000 and $70,000 per person to cross our border ille-
gally 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 fac-
tion of the Sinaloa Cartel in the northern state of So-
nora, 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 auto-
matic rifles, and bulletproof vests; 
Whereas, in May 2022, United States authorities broke up a 
Cartel del Noreste scheme to buy $500,000 worth of ma-
chine 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 vi-
olence 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 (to-
gether, the ‘‘Cartels’’), a state of war exists between 
these Cartels and the United States of America: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. DECLARATION OF WAR. 
(a) Pursuant to Article 1, section 8 of the United 
States Constitution, the Congress hereby formally declares 
that a state of war exists between the United States and— 
(1) the Sinaloa Cartel; 
(2) the Jalisco New General Cartel; 
(3) the Los Zetas and Cartel del Noreste; 
(4) the Gulf Cartel; 
(5) the Tijuana Cartel; 
(6) the Juarez Cartel and La Linea; 
(7) the Beltran-Levya Organization; 
(8) the Guerreros Unidos; 
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(9) the Los Rojos; and 
(10) La Familia Michoaca´na and Knights Tem-
plar Cartel. 
(b) The President is hereby authorized and directed 
to employ the entire naval and military forces of the 
United States and the resources of the Government to 
carry on war against such Cartels; and, to protect the citi-
zens of the United States, all of the resources of the coun-
try are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United 
States. 
SEC. 2. RECOGNITION OF MEXICO. 
That— 
(1) the United States is not in a state of war 
with the United Mexican States (Mexico); and 
(2) it is in the interest of the United States to 
work with the Government of Mexico to carry on 
war against such Cartels. 
Æ 
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