National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, a member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet, suggests that companies like drug cartels and criminals may experience military activity and should be treated more like ISIS than the Cosa Nostra.
The Tren de Aragua gang was targeted by the Justice Department using the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ). According to Just The News, the RICO action was “made renowned for the prosecution of gang leaders in the United States.”
For deaths, sex trafficking, robberies, blackmail, and medication dealing, the Justice Department charged 27 people with being connected to the harsh Venezuelan international legal business Tren de Aragua and one of its affiliates earlier this year.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz stated in an interview on the Just the News, No Noise TV show that” these ] groups aren’t like the mafia, they’re more like ISIS.” They engage in full-on-fire battles against the Latino troops. They are shooting at airplane,””
They deserve every ounce of our nation’s power to be used against them, he added,” to protect our sovereignty, defend our borders, and that’s why the Defense Department has seen the leadership of Secretary Hegseth and Trump change its resources to really defend America.”
According to Just the News,” President Trump ordered 10,000 active-duty soldiers to help secure the southwestern boundary and deployed two vessels, military aircraft, and fight cars as tools to aid in businesses” since taking office earlier this year. The soldiers have so far assisted border patrol agents in conducting deportation flights for illegal immigrants.
Waltz argued that the military deployments are a part of” a much tougher approach to the cartels” and border security in general. The southern border is regarded by President Trump as one of the primary factors contributing to the drug trade and the birthplace of violent criminal organizations that are expanding and terrorizing American cities. Waltz remarked,” Look, these cartels control entire swaths of Mexico and our southern border.” That is utterly unacceptable.
Just The News reports that:
Although President Trump has previously favored using covert means to target terrorists in the Middle East, supporters in Congress have moved to authorize his use of military force against the cartels. In his first year, President Trump gave the CIA new authority to launch drone strikes against terrorist leaders, a task previously held by the Pentagon, as part of an effort to bolster the fight against ISIS. Soon after, the CIA launched an attack on al-Qaeda’s then-second-in-command Abu al-Khayr al-Masri in Syria using this new authority.
However, President Trump’s designation of a number of criminal organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, including Mexican drug cartels and international gangs like Tren de Aragua, makes the situation more likely to be used to target the organizations through use of secret intelligence operations or military installations. This would go beyond the government’s standard methods of prosecuting cartels and gangs, including cooperating with Mexican law enforcement and drug-related operations.
According to the executive order, these organizations, which include the Mexican cartels and gangs like Tren de Aragua and the El Salvadoran MS-13,” constitute a national-security threat beyond that posed by traditional organized crime” because they work with “designated foreign-terror organizations to antagonistic foreign governments, employ tactics common to insurgency and asymmetric warfare, and infiltrate foreign governments in the Western Hemisphere.”
