Immediate Designation of the Taliban as a Foreign Terrorist Organization

Legal FTO designation is the instrument that prevents a hybrid criminal-terrorist organization from consolidating its roots in a destabilized 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.