The Border Patrol issued an internal warning to agents stationed in South Texas that they may be the targets of assassination attempts by Mexican cartel members.
Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley region sent personnel an alert this week, obtained by the Washington Examiner, disclosing that its operations center had received information about possible cartel violence against U.S. law enforcement near Fronton, Texas, a tiny town of 200 residents about 50 miles west of McAllen, Texas.
“Information stated that cartel groups were discussing killing U.S. law enforcement personnel along the border near Fronton, Texas, between Miguel Aleman and Los Guerra, Tamaulipas, Mexico,” the alert states.
A second CBP official confirmed the legitimacy of the document and said the Fronton area is a high-traffic area for drug smuggling as it is just across the Rio Grande from Miguel Aleman, one of the more dangerous cities in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. --->READ MORE HERE
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Customs and Border Protection sent out an alert to all personnel this week warning agents that Mexican cartels may be plotting to assassinate them, the Washington Examiner reported Friday.
The Examiner said it reviewed the alert, which said that "cartel groups were discussing killing U.S. law enforcement personnel along the border near Fronton, Texas, between Miguel Aleman and Los Guerra, Tamaulipas, Mexico."
Another CBP official confirmed the alert to the Examiner and said that area is a "high-traffic area for drug smuggling as it is just across the Rio Grande from Miguel Aleman, one of the more dangerous cities in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas."
CBP officials said agents in the Rio Grande region should wear body armor and carry long-arm guns and work in groups directly along the border to increase safety, the report said.
The report also said that cartel members dressed in military outfits, carrying AK-47 rifles, "taunted" U.S. soldiers assigned to the border in October.
"What's been happening actually this past week is we see a group of individuals that are coming across — they're smuggling people — but what they're doing is they come across the river into the U.S. and smuggle people, they go back into Mexico, and they get their weapons," Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Lt. Christopher Olivarez told the publication at the time. --->READ MORE HERE
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