The state and the Justice Department have begun implementing orders from President Donald Trump, designating drug cartels that operate primarily as terrorist organisations on the southwest border.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has published a list of cartels currently considered terrorists, making them the subject of US military attacks. Attorney General Pam Bondy has declared the Department of Justice (DOJ) goal as “the complete elimination of cartels and cross-border criminal organizations (TCOs).”
She also ordered her subordinates to draft canned language, including charges and search warrants.
Shortly after Trump's designation, border agents traded gunfires with cartel terrorists, who tried to kill two hikers in California. Still, the New York Times argued that the designation threatened the US economy.
On January 20th, Trump designated cartel terrorists in an executive order, saying, “The cartels are engaged in campaigns of violence and fear throughout the Western Hemisphere. They have deadly drugs, violent criminals and vicious gangs. state.”
Similarly, he wrote that he “controls through campaigns of assassination, fear, rape and brute force, almost all illegal traffic across the US southern border.”
Trump observed that the cartel was a “quasi-government” operation in some parts of Mexico. And he said, “Their activities, proximity, and intrusion into the US physical sphere poses an unacceptable national security risk to the US.”
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Trump pointed out the MS-13 in El Salvador and the trending aragua in Venezuela, among other things. Rubio's orders were fingered by eight cartels as terrorists, as defined by US code 1189. These are:
Tren de Aragua (TDA);
Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13);
Cartel de Sinaloa (Sinaloa Cartel);
Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (Jalisco new generation cartel);
Cartel Unidos;
Cartel del Noreste;
Cartel del Golfo; and
La Nueva Familia Michoacana.
The day before, Bondi published her memorandum for all DOJ employees who discussed the “complete removal” of the cartel.
Bondi will be charging cartel and TCO leaders and managers for capital crimes as both terrorists and assaulters, as well as kingpins for foreign drugs that run ongoing criminal enterprises and violate the Machine Gun Act.
“More generally, claim decisions should be based on case-specific assessments of facts and evidence, but when considering whether to pursue accusations, arrests, and/or extraditions of a cartel or TCO target. , we need to assess the following factors,” writes Bondi. :
•Whether the target is an organization's manager or leader.
•Includes whether the target has a significant relationship with the US, including physical presence and directive actions in the US.
•Whether the target's conduct resulted in the death or injury of a US citizen.
•Whether the target's actions are related to international terrorism…;
•Availability of non-criminal responses to targeted actions, such as removal from the US and economic sanctions. and
•A previous violent crime committed by the target is known or suspected.
DOJ also settles into “standardized language” to explain TDA, MS-13, Sinaloa Cartel, and Jalisco New Generation Cartel in prosecution and search warrants.
Bondi also wants to add “fentanyl-related substances” to Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act.
Added to the Act Schedule III is xylazine, which “has no legitimate human use and makes fentanyl even more deadly.” xylazine is a non-narcotic drug that is often added to other drugs to increase efficacy. Veterinary sedatives and muscle relaxants.
Cartel fires with hikers, border agents
Twice in January, cartel terrorists tried to kill Americans.
Three days after Trump declared a cartel terrorist, they apparently tried to lure a group of hikers into their deaths in the wilderness of Jacumba at the border with Mexico.
Cartel thugs carrying weapons ordered Americans and Canadians in the group to approach and approach them. When the hikers refused, the terrorists fired at them and hit America with their feet. They also stole the hiker's cell phones and backpacks.
On January 27, terrorists fired a Border Patrol agent after a group of illegal aliens attempted to cross the border in Fronton, Texas.
After that attack, border area Tom Homan warned once again that Trump would find and destroy the cartel, as he did at the Republican National Convention in July.
“The whole government will dismantle these people and wipe them out from the surface of the earth,” he told Fox speaker Sean Hannity. “They don't intend to go lightly.”
NYT: Calling cartel terrorists is bad for the economy
One voice for Trump's designation of cartels as terrorists is the New York Times.
On January 22, he argued that “labeling cartel terrorists could hurt the US economy.”
The newspaper states that “some American companies that will ban business in Mexico, rather than risk US sanctions, could have a major impact on both countries, considering deep economic interdependence. It's sexual.”
Similarly, American companies are doing business with cartels and businesses incorrectly, so if they pay ransom, for example, they could be charged with material support, the Times explained. .
The Times were very concerned about the avocado trade that had been injected with cartels. Terrorist designations could halt banks from lending money to the industry.
He is also concerned about “American companies north of the border but relying on Mexican labor.”
Designations are so broad and vague that Texas ranches and California farms could be caught up in penalties if they send remittances to Mexican families involved in organized crime.
The “complete removal” of cartels and TCOs would require more than action by the DOJ, given that criminals are less afraid of police and prosecutors. Instead, the US forces probably need to attack them, and, as Homan said, “wipe them off the surface of the earth.”
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