Trump has referred to urban crime and drug trafficking as linked and out of control.
The administration has not provided further details on the 11 people killed in the boat strike.
WASHINGTON — The F-35 is the most advanced fighter jet on the planet, capable of waging electronic warfare, of dropping nuclear weapons, of evading the surveillance and missile defenses of America’s most fearsome enemies at supersonic speeds.
Ten of them are being deployed by a newly branded War Department to Puerto Rico to combat drug traffickers in dinghies.
It is the latest example of the Trump administration using disproportionate military force to supplement, or substitute for, traditional law enforcement operations — first at home on the streets of U.S. cities and now overseas, where the president h