𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗨𝗚𝗟𝗬 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣'𝗦 𝗘𝗫𝗘𝗖𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗗𝗘𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗗𝗥𝗨𝗚 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗦 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗢𝗥𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗭𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦

                                                                  

The idea of obliterating the Mexican drug cartels, specifically their operations in the United States, doesn't seem bad on the surface.

The editor

While President Trump's Executive Order issued January 20th simply uses the phrase "the cartels," the State Department, headed by Marco Rubio, has come out more specifically, naming the Sinaloa cartel, Jalisco New Generation cartel, the Northeast cartel, the Michoacán family, the United cartels and the Cartel del Golfo.  Tren de Aragua(TdA) and La Mara Salvatrucha(MS-13) were already specifically mentioned by Trump in the EO.

Something also very critical in understanding the impact of this Executive Order is in the title: 

DESIGNATING CARTELS AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AS FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS AND SPECIALLY DESIGNATED GLOBAL TERRORISTS

Of course, U.S. law enforcement can already go after any cartel or cartel member violating the law in this country, so, why the need to designate the cartels as "terrorist" organizations?

Well, this may be the main purpose of the Executive Order, designating the cartels as FTOs and/or FDGTs, as it casts a wider net than one might think as any person or group providing “material support or resources” to an FTO or FDGT, a designated terrorist organization, can be prosecuted.

By classifying these groups as "terrorists," anyone who pays a coyote, who turns out to be a cartel member, can be prosecuted and deported as a criminal.

                                          

Churches, synagogues, food banks, and other organizations providing services to migrant communities could be at risk as well, given the broad sweep of the FTO designation including the phrase "material support or resources."  Food, money, transportation, a place to stay for the night, can become illegal, criminal activity under these provisions.  

I'm thinking of entities like the Good Neighbor Settlement Home, the Ozanam Center or Catholic Charities RGV and other similar groups.  What if one of these charitable organizations is found to have served a meal to someone with cartel connections?

So, all of a sudden, this Executive Order puts at risk any immigrant, refugee or assylum seeker who pays a coyote or any charitable organization who innocently, in the course of their charity, offered to any and all, serves a meal or offers lodging to a person later determined to have cartel connections. 

I clearly see the handiwork of Trump's closest advisor, White Supremacist Stephen Miller, in all of this. 

White Supremacist Stephen Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy