Summary
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum criticized Donald Trump’s executive order to label drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, emphasizing Mexico’s sovereignty and rejecting U.S. military intervention.
Trump’s order, part of broader measures on border security, could allow asset seizures and sanctions against cartels but faces skepticism for its effectiveness.
Experts warn it may complicate asylum claims, as migrants paying cartels for passage could face disqualification.
Critics see the move as political posturing, while some victims’ families hope the designation will bring justice and highlight Mexico’s cartel violence.
I swear I’ve seen this movie before. It was based on some book by a guy named Tom… /s
Anyone laying odds for how long it’ll take for Trump to decide to invade Mexico? I’d give it two quarters, max.
Predicting he’ll call Mexico an “American protectorate” or some other bullshit before/during/after he invades.
it won’t be an invasion.
it will be a special military operation.
3 days in and out, just like Ukraine.
It’s going to be a shit show when the next president takes over and has to get us out of conflicts with all of our neighbors. I suspect in the end we’ll end up losing territory rather than gaining any, and we’ll be sanctioned to hell by the rest of the world and paying reparations out the ass for generations.
If Mexico becomes part of the US at least we’ll get rid of a lot of the immigration controversy, right? Right?!
Can EU just declare maga as terrorist, then invade us to liberate us?
Very clever. Very very clever. Labelling them as terrorists gives the US the grounds for invading a country, as it has done before. As Russia did with Ukraine by claiming it’s infested with nazis.
Unfortunately it’s not clever enough, as some regular dude like me can see right through it. But I guess being more clever is not necessary anymore.
If your country has anyone in it that the US has decided to call “terrorists,” better start massing troops.
Trump’s order, part of broader measures on border security, could allow asset seizures and sanctions against cartels
In foreign borders?
You make it sound like they haven’t done this before.
Only if they follow up by shutting down gun stores because they’re aiding and abetting terrorist organizations by knowingly selling ridiculous amounts of arms that ultimately wind up in terrorist cartel hands.
US authorities didn’t even bother prosecuting specific individuals from HSBC’s US branch involved in money laundering for cartels, HSBC’s US branch only had to pay a fine.
To be fair, $1.9 billion + $665 million in civil penalties is a good sized fine for laundering $881 million (that the Feds know of).
I’m sure HSBC won’t make that mistake again, unless the profit motive overrides the risk again.
do you mean the amount of american guns going over the border?
Is there any legitimate argument that cartels aren’t terrorists? They seem to have successfully terrorized the local population in to compliance. They run militias and have military equipment.
It’s not that cartels aren’t bad, but labeling them as terrorists groups gives the US different rights by international law. For example asylum seekers that use coyote to cross the border are labeled as criminals. Also “allows” the US to invade Mexico and deal with the terrorists
That’s orthogonal to the point though. Looking the other way in regards to cartel’s human smuggling isn’t helping asylum seekers, it’s enabling the criminal activity of the cartel. Similarly them being terrorists or not has little to do with US intervention.
Experts warn it may complicate asylum claims, as migrants paying cartels for passage could face disqualification.
That sounds like a win-win for the Führer.
