Trump Says He Will Designate Mexican Cartels As ‘Terrorist Organizations,’ Vows To ‘Take Back’ Panama Canal – Antiwar.com

January 20, 2025 TheMcgwire

Trump Says He Will Designate Mexican Cartels As ‘Terrorist Organizations,’ Vows To ‘Take Back’ Panama Canal

The label for cartels could be the first step toward military action

President Donald Trump signaled in his inauguration speech on Monday that he was preparing for confrontations in the Western Hemisphere by vowing to label Mexican cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations” and “take back” the Panama Canal.

Trump said in the speech that he would be deploying the military to the southern border with Mexico to “repel the disastrous invasion of our country” and that he would be signing an executive order to designate “the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.”

According to Fox News , the designations will apply to Mexican cartels and two gangs : MS-13 and Tren de Aragua. The action will designate the groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT).

The designations amount to severe sanctions that seize any assets the targets may have in the US and bar them from entering the country. The designations also open up anyone for criminal prosecution who provides “material support” to the groups, meaning anyone forced to pay protection money to the cartels or gangs could be potentially targeted.

Terror designations could be a first step toward military action against Mexican cartels, an idea favored by many Republicans and people close to Trump despite the obvious risks.

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