[piytar]

“I know we the border is a lawless area, but some of this makes no sense from the drug gang point-of-view.”

You’re right, it doesn’t make sense from a drug gang point of view.

However, it does make sense from a reconquista point of view. It’s called a “probing action.”

[cripplecreek]

You’re right, it doesn’t make sense from a drug gang point of view.

We're conditioned to assume all border violence is drug related. The drug legalization crowd wants it that way to support their position and the enforcement side wants it that way to keep the money flowing in.

I use the term "drug cartel" pretty sparingly these days and prefer to go with more accurate terms of "terrorist", "invader", or "organized crime".