When it comes to fighting America’s drug problem, the Trump administration seems to have traded courtrooms for combat zones. The U.S. military has been carrying out air and sea strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and off the coast of Venezuela.

Officials say these operations are meant to stop “narco-terrorists” before they reach our shores, but here’s the problem: we don’t actually know who’s being killed, or what evidence proves they were drug traffickers in the first place.

According to the administration, at least 43 people have been killed since this campaign began. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the military has conducted its

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