“Under both US and international law, it is flagrantly illegal to use the military to kill civilians suspected only of crimes,” Jeffrey Stein, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Christopher Anders, director of the democracy and technology division at ACLU, said in a December statement. “Civilians, including those suspected of smuggling drugs, are not lawful targets. Just because the Trump administration says these strikes are firmly grounded in law doesn’t make it true.”
