Trump Issues Executive Order Designating Cartels as Terrorists

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Trump orders โ€˜the total elimination of these organizationsโ€™ presenceโ€™ in the country.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office designating cartels and gangs as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) and specially designated global terrorists, granting authorities greater power to crack down on these violent organizations.

The Jan. 20 executive order states that cartels are flooding the United States with โ€œdeadly drugs, violent criminals, and vicious gangs,โ€ with these groups posing โ€œan unacceptable national security riskโ€ to the country. The order says that cartels โ€œfunctionally control, through a campaign of assassination, terror, rape, and brute force nearly all illegal traffic across the southern border of the United States.โ€

Drugs flowing across the southern border have triggered a fentanyl crisis in the United States. A powerful opioid, fentanyl is 100 times more potent than morphine. Just two milligrams is enough to be fatal. Fentanyl precursors are often shipped from China to cartel members in Mexico and then trafficked into the United States.

In 2023, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl killed an estimated 74,702 Americans, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The opioids were responsible for a majority of 107,543 drug overdose deaths in the country.

Last month, Trump said he planned to โ€œimmediately designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organizationsโ€ once he entered the White House. The president had considered such a move during his first term but set it aside following a request from then-Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

The executive order also highlighted the threats posed by transnational criminal groups such as Tren de Aragua and La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) that have unleashed โ€œcampaigns of violence and terrorโ€ in the United States that have been โ€œextraordinarily violent, vicious.โ€

Tren de Aragua is a Venezuelan gang. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director David Rausch said during a recent hearing that the gang was operating in the stateโ€™s four largest cities. Rausch explained that Tren de Aragua typically begins with human trafficking, then moves into organized retail theft, and eventually engages in drug trafficking.

โ€œThey have a pathway of violence, and we want people to be aware of that,โ€ he said. โ€œThey are very violent toward policingโ€”they have no respect for law enforcement. They will fight, and they will attack police.โ€

Byย Naveen Athrappully

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