Transcript by www.newsy.com BY BARBARA MANINGAT AND KRISTEN BRODY Anchor Jennifer Meckles You're watching multisource world video news analysis from Newsy. In a recent House Homeland Security Committee meeting, Texas Republican Michael McCaul pushed to label Mexican drug cartels as quote- "foreign terrorist organizations" -- putting them in the same category as al-Qaeda-run groups. The Houston Chronicle quotes Representative McCaul as saying... "In my judgment, Mexico is losing this war - and so are we ... The president needs to recognize this issue. We face a serious issue in our backyard, and we need to deal with it." But, the Obama administration and House democrats countered this categorization, saying the Mexican cartels are considered "organized crime" -- like the mob or mafia -- not terrorist activity. (Video: The Guardian) A self-proclaimed analytic blogger on Mexico's Drug War says this isn't the first time the government has tried to label DTOs terrorists. "While some rebranding of Mexico's DTOs is very necessary, calling them foreign terrorist organizations is going to (sic) far, and oversimplifies the problem. It would also pose way too many political and diplomatic challenges for both the US and Mexican governments." The push for greater scrutiny of drug cartels is linked to the increase in cartel threats against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. In March, two ICE agents were targeted by cartel members in a shooting that killed ICE Special Agent ...