Drone footage of cartel warfare is ‘indicative’ of danger still present at border, says Rep. Chip Roy

After drone video footage surfaced of an evident cartel-on-cartel gunfight conscionable southbound of the U.S. borderline with Mexico, Republican Congressman Chip Roy of Texas is calling attraction to the information inactive contiguous astatine the border.

The footage, which Roy obtained from sources connected the border, was taken by a cartel drone and shows 2 sets of vehicles exchanging gunfire adjacent the U.S. border. Video taken by the drone shows the relation yet driblet immoderate benignant of missile, seeming to destruct shooters connected 1 side.

Speaking with Fox News Digital, Roy said that the cognition that cartels ain drones with limb capabilities "open[s] up a full different frontier that we've got to negociate and woody with border security."

"Seeing that and adding it into what we cognize astir the grade to which the cartels are heavy equipped and person important resources… it is indicative of the benignant of information that we're talking about," said Roy.

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U.S. Border Patrol aft agents received gunfire from cartel members successful Mexico portion patrolling successful Fronton, Texas past week. (Texas Department of Public Safety)

This comes conscionable days aft U.S. Border Patrol agents exchanged gunfire with suspected cartel members adjacent the U.S.-Mexican borderline successful Fronton, Texas.

"We're seeing much of that," said Roy.

He noted that arsenic President Donald Trump and his medication instrumentality large steps to ace down connected amerciable migration and migrant transgression wrong the U.S., helium "would expect the cartels to flex much musculus successful Mexico," requiring the U.S. to enactment much intimately with Mexican authorities to quash immoderate summation successful violence.

"They admit present that they've got a United States of America that is serious," helium said. "My conjecture is they're not anserine capable to person the benignant of overt aggression crossed our border… I’d speculate that they're going to effort to manipulate a large woody of the constabulary and subject forces successful Mexico."

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Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, is seen extracurricular the U.S. Capitol aft the past votes earlier the August recess connected Thursday, July 25, 2024 (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

In response, Roy said helium expects Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio volition determination to "work successful bully religion with Mexico to fortify their quality to person the regularisation of instrumentality and basal retired cartels."

The congressman, who has introduced authorities to designate cartels "foreign violent organizations," said that Trump’s enforcement order to bash the aforesaid is an important measurement to rooting retired the cartel occupation some successful the U.S. and Mexico.

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"This medication has already had much beingness astatine the borderline than the entirety of the 4 years of the Biden administration… The cartels present cognize that you person a president successful the state that means business, and they’re astir apt trying to fig retired what their positioning needs to be."

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) declined to remark connected the drone footage. 

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A CBP spokesperson told Fox News Digital that "threats and assaults against CBP unit are taken precise seriously." 

"We stay vigilant and basal acceptable to guarantee the information of our personnel, aliens, and section communities, and the information of our borders," said the spokesperson.