Sinaloa drug cartel gangsters have been let loose by their bosses to shoot and kill US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents, NewsNation reported Thursday. There has always been an understanding between the cartels and the border patrol that gangs won’t use lethal force against US agents lest they invite a massive retaliatory response from US security and police.
But all cards are on the table since the arrest of two senior syndicate bosses, Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López, means younger gangsters are battling it out for control of the organized crime unit. The syndicate’s civil war means that its frontline gang members aren’t exercising any caution when it comes to using force to evade capture. The change in procedure was picked up by the El Paso, TX sector of CBP, which has been warning agents across the southern border to exercise extreme caution and not to assume that Sinaloa border gangsters will not try to kill them.
Just last week, according to the memo obtained by NewsNation, ranch contractors in the Eagle Pass area of the Del Rio Sector in Texas said they were fired upon by shooters in Mexico. The workers reported seeing numerous individuals where the firing originated but it was impossible to assess exactly how many. There were no fatalities or injuries reported as a result of the shooting.