On October 17, estimable border reporter Ali Bradley at NewsNation revealed that an alert has been sent to Border Patrol’s El Paso sector stating that members of the Sinaloa cartel have been given the green light from their bosses to shoot at agents.
Sinaloa Cartel. Of all the drug cartels operating in Mexico, Sinaloa is the most well established. It has its roots in small-scale, family-run smuggling operations in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, which InSight Crime explains “has long been a center for the cultivation and smuggling of marijuana and heroin poppy in Mexico”.
Of all the drug cartels operating in Mexico, Sinaloa is the most well established.
If true, it marks a new and vicious era in the decades-long violence spurred by the illegal drug trade at the Southwest border.
“The workers saw several individuals in Mexico where the shots came from, per the [Border Patrol] memo, but could not determine how many people were out there.” That, and likely some intelligence gleaned from both sides of the Southwest border, was enough to prompt Border Patrol to issue its alert memo.
But if cartel bullets start claiming American lives on this side of the border and Trump’s in charge, the United States likely will respond with lead, not hugs.
Still, up to this latest report at least, the U.S. side of the border was largely a no-go zone for cartel violence.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Report-Sinaloa-Cartel-Frees-Members-Shoot-Border-Patrol-Agents
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