The White House told Congress on October 1 that the United States is in a non-international armed conflict with drug cartels operating in the Caribbean, and that cartel members are “unlawful combatants.” The notice follows a string of lethal U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats near Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. The administration says this is about war powers and the law of armed conflict. Congress and rights groups are already pushing back.

🚨BREAKING: Fox News reports that the US Coast Guard boarded a drug-terror ship belonging to the Venezuelan Sans cartel in Caribbean waters, seized 2,500 kilograms of cocaine and arrested 60 narco-terrorists. pic.twitter.com/Y7IAMJPdSt

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“Unlawful Combatant” In Plain English

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