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Cartels Deploying Weaponized Drones For Use Against Border Patrol, Memo Reveals

The southern border is on the verge of an uptick in violence, according to a CBP memo.

The memo is being circulated to Border Patrol agents, and warns that cartels are preparing to target border agents with explosive-laden drones.

Besides the warning about possible drones being fielded against U.S. border agents, the Border Patrol is being told to carry their long guns from now on.

Here’s a report by News Nation discussing the CBP memo:

This is a look at the exact type of drones being used by cartels, often in attacks on other cartels.

These are what may be fielded against our own Border Patrol agents soon, according to the memo.

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Texas state Congressman Chip Roy recently shared this wild footage, sent from his sources on the border.

The scene shows one cartel fielding an explosive-laden drone against a “monstro”, or armored vehicle operated by an opposing cartel, with success.

That footage clearly shows the cartels have drones with weaponized capabilities, according to a report by Fox News:

After drone video footage surfaced of an apparent cartel-on-cartel gunfight just south of the U.S. border with Mexico, Republican Congressman Chip Roy of Texas is calling attention to the danger still present at the border.

The footage, which Roy obtained from sources on the border, was taken by a cartel drone and shows two sets of vehicles exchanging gunfire near the U.S. border. Video taken by the drone shows the operator eventually drop some type of missile, seeming to eliminate shooters on one side.

Speaking with Fox News Digital, Roy said that the knowledge that cartels own drones with weapon capabilities “open[s] up a whole other frontier that we’ve got to manage and deal with border security.”

“Seeing that and adding it into what we know about the extent to which the cartels are heavily armed and have significant resources… it is indicative of the kind of danger that we’re talking about,” said Roy.

This comes just days after U.S. Border Patrol agents exchanged gunfire with suspected cartel members near the U.S.-Mexican border in Fronton, Texas.

“We’re seeing more of that,” said Roy.

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Check out this footage showing cartels setting up military checkpoints.

The drones they are operating are also captured in several frames, as well as the dismembered heads of their victims — likely either opposing cartel members, or Mexican military.

The level of violence being seen among the cartels for the last few years is something akin to ISIS.

These are not simply pot-smoking dirt road rebels.

These are well-funded, well-trained, organized and sophisticated units capable of a lot of violence.

That was a full-color view from a drone overhead targeting cartel vehicles.

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Obviously, the danger is something the cartel members recognize.

It is a threat they are very familiar with, which means the use of these drones is likely greater than we have knowledge of, as is evident from this Newsweek story:

ICE has been thrust into the forefront of the national conversation surrounding immigration enforcement operations as President Donald Trump lays the groundwork to begin large-scale mass deportations.

Trump made immigration a core component of his successful presidential campaign. Americans largely support immigration reform overall, but disagree about how policies such as deportations should be carried out.

CBP is distributing two memos to its agents and officers, according to reports.

One post features a call for the murder of ICE officers, and another TikTok video instructs undocumented immigrants in the country to urinate and spit on the food of ICE officers and to defecate in their cars. Another social media post calls for the killing of local ICE agents.

As the threat of violence against U.S. law enforcement increases, the Trump administration’s response will likely focus on increasing counterterrorism measures and deploying more resources to the border to combat cartel operations. With drone explosives now reportedly being sanctioned by cartels, CBP and ICE will likely ramp up surveillance and defensive technologies.

Here is another video (no shortage of videos showing cartels in Mexico using explosive-laden drones) for a mission presumably aimed against a nearby cartel position.

With this level of violence, once only seen in ISIS controlled areas of the Mideast or along the frontline, it is likely only a matter of time before it spills over into cross-border actions here at home.

Thankfully, we have capabilities that far exceed that of bomb-dropping drones.

But the reality is likely that things on the border are going to get much worse in terms of bloodshed before they get better.

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For all the special forces guys watching the news and itching to get a chance to mix it up with the cartels in Mexican territory — they’re likely going to get their wish before this is all said and done.


 

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