Trump administration considering labeling some suspected cartel and gang members inside the US as 'enemy combatants'
The Trump administration has been examining whether it can label some suspected cartel and gang members inside the US as “enemy combatants” as a possible way to detain them more easily and limit their ability to challenge their imprisonment, according to multiple people with knowledge of the deliberations.
The “enemy combatant” designation could also be applied to suspected narco-terrorists outside the US, the people said, as a way to potentially give the US a justification to conduct lethal strikes against them.
After the 9/11 attacks in 2001, the US attached the label “enemy combatant” to anyone accused of being a part of or supporting the Taliban, al Qaeda, or associated forces engaged in hostilities against the US – and it used that sweeping definition to keep many of them in military detention on Guantanamo Bay indefinitely, without charge, trial, or judicial review.
The discussions have revived a debate from President Donald Trump’s first term in 2018, when he wanted to apply the label to all migrants who had entered the US illegally, according to two books written by former Department of Homeland Security official Miles Taylor.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-considering-labeling-suspected-080050696.html
You wait they'll be more cases of mistaken identity where citizens are affected.
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