▲ Members of Donald Trump’s next cabinet. From left to right: Mike Waltz, National Security Advisor; Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense; Kristi Noem, Homeland Security, including immigration agencies ICE and CBP; John Ratcliffe, director of the CIA, and Elon Musk in the new Department of Government Efficiency.Photo Ap, Afp and social networks
David Brooks and Jim Cason
Correspondents
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, November 13, 2024, p. 23
New York and Washington. Donald Trump and his transition team announced new appointments and leaked other unconfirmed ones, all of which reiterate anti-immigrant positions, a heavy hand in domestic politics and the rise of falcons and Zionists in foreign affairs, including a couple of warriors against the Mexican cartels.
Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Florida, was officially named National Security Advisor in the White House by President-elect Trump. Waltz is an Army special forces veteran where he rose to colonel, and Trump stressed that he is expert on threats posed by China, Russia, Iran and global terrorism. He didn’t mention that he also has an interest in Mexico.
In early January 2023, Representative Waltz, along with his colleague Dan Crenshaw of Texas, promoted a bill in Congress for a authorization of the use of military force –the approval necessary to allow the use of armed forces– against the Mexican cartels that traffic fentanyl, among other activities, which have caused destabilization in the Western Hemisphere.
The situation on our southern border has become untenable for our law enforcement personnel, largely due to the activities driven by the extensively armed and well-funded Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels.Waltz declared when introducing the bill. It’s time to take the offensive. These transnational paramilitary criminal organizations are not only responsible for killing unprecedented numbers of Americans (for fentanyl and other drugs), but they are undermining our sovereignty by destabilizing our border and waging war against US security personnel and the Mexican military.he added, arguing that the authorization would offer the US president intelligence and other resources to attack the cartels, and recalled Plan Colombia as a precedent.
With a much faster pace to integrate his government than when he first came to the White House, Trump named Pete Hegseth Secretary of Defense. “Pete has dedicated his entire life to being a warrior for the troops, and for the country… he is a true believer in America First. With Pete in command, America’s enemies are on notice: our military will be great again and America will never retreat,” Trump wrote in his official announcement. He highlighted that Hegseth is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard, and that he is an army combat veteran with operations in Guantánamo, Iraq and Afghanistan, and that he later hosted a Fox News program. He highlighted that he wrote a bestseller: The war against the warriors that reveals the leftists’ betrayal of our warriors.
Hegseth, during his time at Fox News, was obviously a critic of the military policy of Democrat Joe Biden’s administration. In 2021, criticizing the Biden administration’s disciplinary actions against horse-mounted border agents who used whips on immigrants at the border, Hegseth stated: The only people taking brutal and inappropriate measures against innocent people are the Mexican cartels who are trafficking these people in exchange for cash. But the White House never mentions that, because by transporting these illegally trafficked people across the country, our government has become an extension of the cartel pipeline… The cartels take them to the border. Joe Biden does the rest from there.
Trump named South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as his next Homeland Security secretary, CNN first reported, a selection that underscores the priority of boosting anti-immigrant measures. Noem is known for her hard line anti-immigrant, and will work together with Tom Homan and Stephen Miller, the two already designated to implement the measures promised by Trump against millions of undocumented immigrants. She will head a secretariat that includes the immigration and customs agencies (ICE) as well as border protection (CBP). Trump, in his announcement, highlighted that Noem was the first governor to send soldiers from the National Guard (which is managed in each state by governors) to “help Texas fight Biden’s border crisis. She declared that “with Trump, we will secure the border, we will restore security to American communities so that families will once again have the opportunity to seek american dream”.
Previously, Noem sparked controversy when she recounted in her memoir how she executed her puppy dog for being disobedient, as a sign that she was willing to do things. difficult which were frequent on the farms of his state.
Also officially, Trump appointed John Ratcliffe director of the CIA, who held the position of director of National Intelligence during the magnate’s first presidency, where he stood out as a faithful servant of his boss, and for his suspicion of the rest of the community. of intelligence. He was only confirmed on a second attempt after he was forced to withdraw his nomination when it was found that he had exaggerated his national security experience by lying on his website that he had arrested more than 300 irregular foreigners in a single day and that he had imprisoned terrorists.
Trump’s transition team also announced the appointment of Zionist and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel. His daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was press secretary during the mogul’s first turn in the White House.
In addition, there were two other official appointments this Tuesday: Trump selected his friend Steven Witkoff, another real estate magnate in Florida and New York, as his special envoy for the Middle East, with whom the president-elect says will move forward peace. Witkoff is an admirer of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
He also appointed William Joseph McGinley to the position of White House counsel.
Trump, late this Tuesday, declared that he will appoint his great friend and the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, along with Vivek Ramaswamy – former presidential candidate and businessman – to head a new secretariat, the Department of Government Efficiency, dedicated to fulfill the promise of dismantle government bureaucracy, cut excessive regulations and wasted expenses, said the president-elect. This will send cramps through the systemMusk exclaimed.
Meanwhile, jokes and black humor about the United States elections continue to circulate, including: Who are on the borders of stupidity? Mexico and Canada.
He threatens the use of force against the Mexican cartels // He will seal the border so that the american dream be for American families