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President Trump has reportedly directed the Pentagon to assist in targeting foreign drug cartels, according to The New York Times.
On Friday, The Times – citing anonymous leakers – reported Trump had “secretly” issued the directive authorizing the U.S. military to target the Latin American gangs responsible for importing fentanyl and other narcotics into the US, in addition to human smuggling and child sex trafficking.
As expected, The Times – which previously showed sympathy with cartels fearing an imminent Trump crackdown – covered the development with a critical eye towards Trump’s latest policy and equal concern for the cartels.
Via the NYT:
The order provides an official basis for the possibility of direct military operations at sea and on foreign soil against cartels.
U.S. military officials have started drawing up options for how the military could go after the groups, the people familiar with the conversations said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive internal deliberations.
The order allegedly authorizes the use of military force against members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang, El Salvador’s Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, and a group linked to Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro, called Cartel de Los Soles, which was recently added to the list of designated global terror groups.
The Times worried the Trump administration’s use of the military to carry out law enforcement activities could violate the Posse Comitatus Act, and questioned whether cartel members killed in the campaign would be classified as “murders,” all the while acknowledging Trump had raised the issue during the 2024 presidential race, but refusing to credit him for keeping yet another campaign promise.
The New York Times’ apprehension over Trump’s war on drug cartels comes as the left-leaning, anti-Trump outlet in March penned a bizarrely sympathetic report explaining cartel members were fearing for their lives and scrambling to figure out how to survive the second Trump administration after POTUS declared them terrorists and authorized the U.S. military to begin operations against them.
Responding to the Times‘ report Friday, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum – whom President Trump has threatened with tariffs in order to get illegal immigration and fentanyl smuggling under control – told reporters she did not believe the US military would strike within her country.
“There will be no invasion: That is rejected, absolutely rejected,” the narco-state’s president told reporter, adding, “The United States is not going to come to Mexico with troops.”
We’ll see how defending the criminal networks works out for her.
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