GOP Rep. Ted Poe: groups like ISIS 'talking' to Mexican drug cartels - good thing that border is secure...

U.S. Representative Ted Poe (R-Texas) currently sits on the House Judiciary Committee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security. He appeared today on NewsmaxTV, where he was asked about the situation with ISIS in the wake of the beheading of James Foley. He didn't mince words, referring to the terror group as "evil personified."

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Poe observed that ISIS is "a group that cannot be negotiated with," adding that "we shouldn't negotiate with them, and they have to be defeated. They want to kill anybody that disagrees with them on politics and religion, whether it's Jews, Christians or even Muslims." He said that Congress may authorize military action against ISIS, and that the President needs to be stronger in dealing with the threat. "There has to be consequences for their reckless murder of other people," he said. "Be proactive Mr. President, be very strong." "We have an option: do nothing or eliminate them," Poe said. Currently, he believes, ISIS expects the United States to "do nothing." That's going to have to change, because Poe also announced that he believes that groups like ISIS are in contact with Mexican drug cartels. If that's true, it means they could soon be knocking on our porous, unenforced, "totally secure" Southern border. "My opinion is... yes. There seems to be at least a talking to each other, how much I don't know." Poe said. "Drug cartels use the same operational plan as terrorist groups do. They kill their opponents, they behead their opponents, they brag about it and they have operational control of many portions of the southern border of the United States. Mexico doesn't. The United States doesn't. ...They're vicious as some of these other terrorist organizations." Poe's interview appears below. Below that, you'll find a truly reassuring clip of Harry Reid informing you that there's no need to worry, because the border is oh-so-secure.