Mexican cartels targeting Border Patrol agents with kamikaze drones, explosives amid Trump crackdown: report

Mexican cause cartels are ordering their members to people U.S. Border Patrol agents with kamikaze drones and different explosives amid a crackdown astatine the confederate borderline by the Trump administration. 

An interior memo titled "Officer Safety Alert" cited societal media posts and different sources for the informing to national agents, the New York Post reported. Agents were reminded to beryllium "cognizant of their surroundings" and should beryllium wearing their ballistic armor and utilizing their agelong firearms.

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Rival cause cartels speech gunfire successful Mexico. (Fox News) (Fox News)

"On February 1, 2025, the El Paso Sector Intelligence and Operations Center (EPT-IOC) received accusation advising that Mexican cartel leaders person authorized the deployment of drones equipped with explosives to beryllium utilized against US Border Patrol agents and US subject unit presently moving on the borderline with Mexico," the memo, obtained by the newspaper, states. 

"It is recommended that each US Border Patrol agents and DoD unit moving on the borderline study immoderate sighting of drones to their respective enactment unit and the EPT-IOC," it said. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 

News Nation, which archetypal reported the memo, reported TikTok posts and different societal media sites utilized by Mexican cause cartels person besides advised illegal immigrants to spit and urinate connected ICE agents and defecate successful their vehicles. 

Other posts person urged assassins to people borderline personnel. 

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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)

Last week, Border Patrol agents received gunfire from cartel members successful Mexico portion patrolling successful Fronton, Texas, the Texas Department of Public Safety said. The cartel members fled Mexico due to the fact that of a subject beingness and sought refuge connected an land betwixt Mexico and the U.S., DPS said. 

The informing comes arsenic the Trump medication has launched deportation raids targeting amerciable immigrants with transgression records and enacted tougher measures to unafraid the confederate border. 

Cartel leaders person realized a proactive U.S. beingness connected the borderline could chopped into their cause and quality smuggling profits, the memo showed, according to the Post. 

Last week, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, suggested the thought of the U.S. green-lighting backstage parties to people cause cartels for profit.

"Congress could contented letters of marque and reprisal authorizing backstage information firms oregon specially trained civilians to intercept cartel operations, peculiarly those involving cause shipments oregon quality trafficking crossed borders," Lee wrote connected X. "Focus connected disrupting proviso lines, capturing high-value targets, oregon seizing assets similar boats, vehicles, cash, gold, oregon instrumentality utilized successful transgression activities."

A U.S. Border Patrol cause stands connected a cliff looking for migrants that crossed the borderline partition betwixt the U.S. and Mexico adjacent Sasabe, Arizona. Agents are reportedly being targeted by Mexican cause cartels amid a crackdown by the Trump medication to unafraid the confederate border.  (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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