On the same day that Donald Trump took office, the new administration immediately designated cartels as foreign terrorist organizations:
DESIGNATING CARTELS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AS FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS AND SPECIALLY DESIGNATED GLOBAL TERRORISTS
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq., the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA),50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq. it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose. This order creates a process by which certain international cartels (the Cartels) and other organizations will be designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, consistent with section 219 of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1189), or Specially Designated Global Terrorists, consistent with IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702) and Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001 (Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism), as amended.
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The Cartels have engaged in a campaign of violence and terror throughout the Western Hemisphere that has not only destabilized countries with significant importance for our national interests but also flooded the United States with deadly drugs, violent criminals, and vicious gangs.
Fast forward a few months, and the "find out" era has begun for yet another group of people:
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) September 2, 2025
"Those 11 drug traffickers are no longer with us":
.@SecDef: "That was definitely not artificial intelligence... President Trump is willing to go on offense in ways that others have not been...
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 3, 2025
You want to try to traffic drugs? It's a new day — it's a different day. And so, those 11 drug traffickers are no longer with us." https://t.co/ytE10SSmfw pic.twitter.com/XSLeXei8ZS
The Democrats and other assorted TDS-addled lefties have already come out in favor of violent crime, against the deportation of criminal illegals, so up next is opposing the elimination of cartel-backed drug traffickers just because Trump's the one getting it done.
I was among those who knew what the Left's response would be:
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We’ll now await the Dems condemnation of the Trump admin for smoking a TdA gang of illegals trying to bring illicit drugs to the U.S. https://t.co/NV5n7ah2oq
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) September 2, 2025
And right on cue:
And just like that President Trump now has Democrats mourning the deaths of Venezuelan narcoterrorists. pic.twitter.com/2Ju3vpQEjP
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) September 3, 2025
These people have gotten way too predictable.
There isn’t anything you won’t defend if it means dunking on President Trump, huh? https://t.co/3zsw8cAm8G
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) September 3, 2025
Dems: pic.twitter.com/RzS6RdKCON
— CarolinaConservative3 (@1776Carolina3) September 3, 2025
It's come to this!
It’s physically impossible for them not to take the wrong side of every 99-1 issue.
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) September 3, 2025
Trump could say puppies are cute and the Left would say "you know who else like dogs..."
