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Trump signs executive orders targeting illegal immigration, cartels, 'birthright citizenship' (www.reuters.com)

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WASHINGTON, Jan 20 - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed executive orders declaring illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border a national emergency, designating criminal cartels as terrorist organizations, and targeting automatic citizenship for U.S.-born children of immigrants in the country illegally.

Trump also signed an order expected to suspend the U.S. refugee resettlement program for four months, although the text of the orders was not immediately available.

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[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This is not infighting, this is the point. Finance organised crime abroad to sow instability and undermine local governments, and use that instability as an excuse for intervention, usually in the form of loans, joint military operations, while also driving investment and labour away from that country towards the "safer" core.

Outright invasion only makes sense if the local government becomes insubordinate and refuses "help" (often due to becoming effective at handling the "cartels") or if the organised crime groups become politically active against imperial interests. In Mexico it's the former, in Haiti it's the latter.

[–] senseamidmadness@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago

so the play is most likely the embedded agents are all going to back out and territory will be seized, got it