President Trump wants to deploy a blunt new tool to fight Mexican cartels that flood the U.S. with drugs, by adding them to a list of terrorist groups that includes the likes of al Qaeda and Hamas. The move could increase pressure on the cartels by directing more money to intelligence gathering.

Mexican drug cartels have planned attacks on U.S. Border Patrol agents with kamikaze drones and other explosives to combat a crackdown by the Trump administration at the southern border.