Cartels adopt terrifying tactics in response to Trump’s border crackdown
Mexican drug cartels are readying terrifying plans to strike back at US Border Patrol agents as President Donald Trump ramps up his crackdown on immigration.
Cartels are ordering their members to attack US law enforcement at the border with kamikaze drones and other explosive devices, according to internal government memos first obtained by News Nation.
The memos were circulated to officers and agents within US Customs and Border Patrol, warning them to keep an eye out for drones.
’On February 1, 2025, the El Paso Sector Intelligence and Operations Center (EPT-IOC) received information advising that Mexican cartel leaders have authorized the deployment of drones equipped with explosives to be used against US Border Patrol agents and US military personal currently working along the border with Mexico,’ said one of the memos acquired by the New York Post.
’It is recommended that all US Border Patrol agents and DoD personnel working along the border report any sighting of drones to their respective leadership staff and the EPT-IOC,’ it continued.
Federal agents at the border were also told to ’carry proper equipment’ at all times including first aid kits, tourniquets and body armor. The memo also instructed them to have rifles ’readily available.’
In its memos, the US government also cited alleged social media posts encouraging people to target Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as the reason why added precautions need to be taken.
One post reportedly told people to assassinate ICE police, while a TikTok video encouraged illegal immigrants in the US to spit and urinate in ICE agents’ food. Another post reportedly called for the murder of local ICE agents.
US law enforcement agents stationed at the US-Mexico border were warned this week about possible attacks from Mexican drug cartels using kamikaze drones with explosives (Pictured: Various officers monitor at the El Paso border crossing in Texas on February 3)
Pictured: A drone intercepted by US Border Patrol in August 2017 that was being flown by a man the agency believed was using the device to fly drugs across the border
This comes as President Donald Trump is upping security at the border and carrying out a mass deportation campaign (Pictured: US Marines add barbed wire to the border wall in San Ysidro, California, on February 3)
This comes about two weeks after Trump, in one of his first acts as president, sent 10,000 extra troops down to the US-Mexico border to help with enforcement.
Days before that, he had already set 1,500 troops, who joined the more than 2,000 who were already there to install more physical barriers.
Enforcement on the other side of the border is getting more strict as well, with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreeing Monday to send an additional 10,000 members of the national guard to prevent drug trafficking from her country.
In exchange for the troop boost, Trump agreed to pause the 25 percent tariffs on Mexican goods for a month. The import taxes would have gone into effect on Tuesday.
Previously, Mexico sent nearly 15,000 troops to the border in 2019, while Trump was president and 10,000 troops in 2021, when Joe Biden had taken the Oval Office.
Both times, the White House had pressured the Mexican government to do more to slow migrant arrivals to the US.
Within the US, ICE has been detaining about 900 to 1,200 people per day, compared to the daily average of 311 in fiscal year 2024.
So far, it’s estimated that ICE has detained about 40,000 people who it suspects are illegal immigrants and should be deported.
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