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| Mexican cartels fire at Border Patrol agents as Trump ramps up enforcement: officials |
| 2025-01-28 |
| [FoxNews] U.S. Border Patrol agents exchanged gunfire with suspected cartel members near the U.S.-Mexican border on Monday, as the U.S. government's response against criminal migrants continues to intensify. The gunfire exchange – which happened exactly one week after President Donald Trump began ramping up border security on his first day in office – occurred at around 2 p.m. local time near Fronton, Texas. A group of illegal aliens was attempting to cross the Rio Grande while bullets were fired, but did not make it across. Neither the Border Patrol agents nor the suspected cartel members were hit. President Trump recently designated Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. The area where the gunfire exchange took place is near Fronton Island, also unofficially known as "Cartel Island" due to the criminal activity there. In an interview with Fox News Digital in 2023, Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said that she declared the land as Texas territory – even though it had not officially been before – to grant law enforcement the right to patrol there. "One of the things that the General Land Office does is determine the center of a waterway," Buckingham said at the time. "Everything that is the center of the Rio Grande and north, of course, the state of Texas and the United States territory." "The land just hadn't been accurately declared as it was forming in the river. That's why we had to step in and officially declare it Texas territory." Last week, a Fox News Digital exclusive found that a sharp drop in illegal immigrant encounters occurred in the first days of the Trump administration – 35% lower than the final three days of the Biden administration. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sources said that there were 1,288 encounters nationwide on Jan. 17, then 1,266 on Jan. 18 and 1,354 on Jan. 19. The 3,908 encounters in the last few days of the Biden administration countered the 2,523 encounters in the first three days of the Trump administration: 1,073; 736; and 714 from Jan. 20 to Jan. 22, respectively. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #13 When we gonna see some fun up here on our Northen border? NH is "wide open"8^) |
| Posted by: alanc 2025-01-28 16:29 |
| #12 Mexican cartels are terrorist organizations and always have been. The southern border has been under "invasion" status for the entire duration of the Biden regime, even though it's a "no-no" term for a lot of the USA, along with their refusal to consider the Biden open border policy a "high crime and misdemeanor" under the terms of the US Constitution. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2025-01-28 14:05 |
| #11 Because cartels like to have big shoot outs with border control along their smuggling routes. "A group of illegal aliens was attempting to cross the Rio Grande while bullets were fired" Definitely sounds like cartel and not local coyotes and border smugglers. Peppering legacy news with stories about cartel shooting at our guys is definitely not gaslighting because we know it is the cartels that want the cartel wars and not the other way around. Definitely just the cartels trying to win popular support for their future offensive against border control and DEA. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2025-01-28 13:39 |
| #10 You just know the BP would LOVE to see some BBBRRRRRRRTTTTTTT happening to cartel gunnies. Or for one of their technicals to eat a maverick. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2025-01-28 13:20 |
| #9 Bring it, bitches. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2025-01-28 11:44 |
| #8 Mortar counterfire should now be authorized. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2025-01-28 10:19 |
| #7 Hot pursuit (also known as fresh or immediate pursuit) is the urgent and direct pursuit of a criminal suspect by law enforcement officers, or by belligerents under international rules of engagement for military forces. Such a situation grants the officers in command powers they otherwise would not have. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-01-28 07:24 |
| #6 Here we go! |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2025-01-28 04:50 |
| #5 Maybe "The Don" needs to use a little US show of force like, Operation Restore Control, or Operation Kiss-Ass, to free the Mexico Gov from Cartel controls? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-01-28 03:50 |
| #4 |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-01-28 03:29 |
| #3 I'm sure the air force has many bored TACPs along with bored pilots of A-10s needing flight hours. Embed them with the border patrol. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2025-01-28 01:35 |
| #2 Gunfight erupts on the border as Mexican drug cartels smuggling migrants across open fire on US Border Patrol agents |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-01-28 01:08 |
| #1 Cartels not reacting well to closed border. May need to establish a "US Border War" category. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2025-01-28 01:06 |