Looking at his executive orders in totality, my analysis is that Trump's team is attempting to create an overlapping justification for using the military and the Department of Defense on the Southern Border. If cartels are "terrorists" then the Trump Administration can leverage the AUMF-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_of_2001#Trump_administration
While that was associated with 9-11, its use has arguably been expanded far beyond its original intention.
When Trump started the initial deluge of Executive Orders there was a cluster that jumped out at me, with potential overlapping intent.
Prohibition does create a profit incentive and organized crime. That's the catch-22 of banning things. The violence done to secure those profits may be much worse than the social harm of the thing itself.
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