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After President Donald Trump announced that he was designating the leftist agitation group Antifa as a terrorist organization in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, one expert said the president has "powerful" tools at his disposal to dismantle the group.

Michael Balboni is an attorney and former member of the New York State Assembly and Senate. During his time in office, he chaired the state senate's Homeland Security Committee, and was later appointed to the state's Domestic Terrorism Task Force under Governors Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul.

U.S. terrorism laws under the Immigration and Nationality Act only apply to foreign groups, so there is no federal statute for prosecuting domestic organizations as terr

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