NEW YORK, CMC – United States Democratic Congressman, Gregory W. Meeks, is demanding solutions from the Trump administration for the authorized justification following the US Armed Forces’ strike on an alleged drug vessel within the Caribbean Sea earlier this month.
“I’m deeply involved by the Trump administration’s shifting narratives, contradictory details, and utter failure to supply a authorized justification for this strike,” mentioned Meeks, who represents New York’s fifth Congressional District in Queens.
The Rating Member of the US Home of Representatives’ Overseas Affairs Committee mentioned it’s “unacceptable” that, per week after the strike, members of the Overseas Affairs Committee have but to be briefed by the administration on this use of power, regardless of the Committee’s clear jurisdiction.
Meeks, who previously served because the chairman of the Home Overseas Affairs Committee, mentioned, “We’re a nation of legal guidelines, not of 1 man’s whims.
“Donald Trump doesn’t have the authority to order strikes in worldwide waters. Solely Congress has the constitutional energy to declare conflict or authorise army power. The administration should make its authorized justification for these strikes clear, as a result of this strike seems illegal underneath each US and worldwide legislation.”
Meeks mentioned he additionally needs the Trump administration to supply Congress with the intelligence, together with what instant risk to the USA justified the extrajudicial killing of 11 people.
“Unjustified unilateral actions like this emulate the behaviour of authoritarian leaders, similar to Maduro (the Venezuelan chief), relatively than counter them,” he mentioned.
“The Trump administration’s credibility is already in tatters, from deporting folks to overseas gulags based mostly on false claims and cherry-picking intelligence that fits its political agenda, to now contradicting itself about the place the boat was heading when it was struck,” Meeks mentioned, including, “the American folks deserve the reality.
“With each the USA and Venezuela taking additional escalatory steps, it’s time for Congress to reassert its congressional authority over issues of conflict and peace,” Meeks mentioned.
The US legislator mentioned that Trump shouldn’t be allowed to “unilaterally drag us right into a conflict that now we have not authorised.”
Final week, Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar praised the US army strike on an alleged drug-carrying vessel within the southern Caribbean, which the White Home mentioned had killed 11 “narco-terrorists” who have been a part of the Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang.
She mentioned she had “no sympathy for traffickers” and that the US army ought to “kill all of them violently.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has referred to as on the Trinidad and Tobago authorities to seek for the stays of the 11 males, whilst police listed below are but to establish the 2 our bodies that washed ashore over the weekend.
Petro has since taken to his X account, referencing reviews of fishermen’s fears in Trinidad and that it was “important” that the federal government seek for the stays of what he mentioned have been civilian lifeless.
