According to a recent report, cartel leaders have authorized the killing of U.S. Border Patrol agents by legal members of the Sinaloa drug gang.
According to an inner Border Patrol letter that was recently released to the El Paso, Texas, market of the organization and obtained by NewsNation, there has been a consensus between the fugitive cartels operating at the southern border between the United States and Mexico and Border Patrol officials, who said the cartels had never shot at Border Patrol agents out of concern that the company might fight by shutting down cartel operations.
The inner Border Patrol letter revealed that the relationship between the fugitive organizations and Border Patrol agents had considerably changed since the arrests of two senior Sinaloa gang leaders over the summer, according to The Post Millennial. The Sinaloa cartel members are no longer being instructed to use deadly force when attempting to avoid being captured by Border Patrol agents, according to reports of a civil war between younger cartel leaders.
Border Patrol agents are being advised by the El Paso, Texas-based division of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to use caution and to no longer assume cartel members will use deadly force against them, according to NewsNation.
In response to the increased threat from the Sinaloa cartel in the wake of the cartel’s civil war, Victor Avila, a former homeland security investigation special agent, told NewsNation.
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Avila told NewsNation,” The No. 1 reason they fight for these plazas is because these plazas are the corridors to enter the United States, whether California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and that’s the major fight because the Sinaloa cartel has controlled that whole area”.
According to a report from NewsNation, Customs and Border Protection has stated that the agency is taking serious about the increased threats made by criminal cartels against law enforcement personnel and migrants. The organization stated in the article that it is taking steps to protect both the employees and the people in its care.
After finding military-grade weapons on Mexico’s side of the border near Ajo, Arizona, Border Patrol agents were alerted last month of increased threats along the southern border.
Asked about the increased threats at the southern border, former President Donald Trump told NewsNation,” We need a military operation. These people have become military. They’re very rich, have a lot of money. They’re among the richest people, probably in the world”.