President Donald Trump told Congress that the United States is in a “non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels .

Trump sent a memorandum , obtained by several outlets on Thursday, to Congress declaring the cartels to be terrorist organizations and their members unlawful combatants.

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It follows Trump’s authorization of several deadly military airstrikes in the Caribbean to take out suspected drug smuggling boats coming from Venezuela — strikes that have raised

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