Immediate Designation of the Taliban as a Foreign Terrorist Organization

FTO designation is the instrument that keeps a criminal-terrorist group from taking root in an unstable region.

A decision memorandum written to the Secretary of Homeland Security. It argues the Taliban network poses a transnational threat to U.S. security interests in the region, and that formal designation under the Immigration and Nationality Act is the available legal instrument for constraining it.

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