In the second Donald Trump presidency, the state’s tool kit has been evolving fast. New formal tools of repressive state power are no less significant. The terms of US coercive power, legal or otherwise, against its domestic foes are on the move. Once “transnational” gangs are deemed appropriate objects of designation, legal boundaries upon the reach of designation dissolve even further. The terms of US coercive power, legal or otherwise, against its domestic foes are on the move.