By R. Cort Kirkwood
Cartel terrorists fired gunshots at Border Patrol agents yesterday in Texas, five days after they shot and robbed an American hiker in San Diego County, California.
The terrorists attacked a week after President Donald Trump declared the drug- and human-smuggling cartels terrorist organizations.
After the attack on border agents, Tom Homan, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said that the “whole government” will destroy them, and “they will not go lightly.”
The terrorists exchanged gunfire with the agents at about 2 p.m. near Fronton, Texas, Fox News reported:
A group of illegal aliens was attempting to cross the Rio Grande while bullets were fired, but did not make it across. Neither the Border Patrol agents nor the suspected cartel members were hit.…
The area where the gunfire exchange took place is near Fronton Island, also unofficially known as “Cartel Island” due to the criminal activity there. In an interview with Fox News Digital in 2023, Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said that she declared the land as Texas territory — even though it had not officially been before — to grant law enforcement the right to patrol there.
Appearing on Sean Hannity’s Fox program, Homan said the days of the terror cartels were numbered.
“It’s going to get worse,” he said, “because President Trump is going to seal that border. He’s going to put the cartels out of business.”
“The whole of government is going to dismantle these people and wipe them off the face of the earth,” he continued. “They are not going to go lightly”…
Read the rest here: https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/cartel-terrorists-fire-at-border-patrol-agents-in-texas-shoot-american-hiker-in-california/
Border Patrol “returned fire.” ‘Bout time.