Posted on 01/23/2025 1:25:07 PM PST by TigerClaws
A hiker was shot and robbed by “suspected cartel members” Wednesday while exploring an area along the edge of San Diego County near the U.S.-Mexico border with a group, U.S. Border Patrol El Centro Sector officials said in a social media post.
The post, which had an accompanying video, appears to show the hiker being airlifted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection from where the shooting occurred in the Jacumba Mountains Wilderness, a federally-maintained desert area spanning San Diego and Imperial counties.
Border Patrol says agents were dispatched to “rescue the hikers, evaluate them, and neutralize any threats.” The post’s caption said the hiker sustained two gunshot wounds in the shooting, and appears to have been the only member of the group injured.
No further details were immediately available about the events of the shooting, including the severity of the hiker’s injuries and whether any suspects were taken into custody.
It is also unclear whether the shooting is being investigated as an act of terrorism, although Border Patrol agents described the suspects as “terrorists” — likely in reference to President Donald Trump’s recent executive order designating cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
“These cartels think they can bring their war to American soil,” the post read. “The American people will not retreat from this kind of terror.”
FOX 5/KUSI reached out to the Imperial County Sheriff’s Department, which was one of the responding agencies to the incident, for more information on the shooting and is awaiting response.
So they are shooting at us. Now what DJT?
Thankfully California keeps cartel terrorists safe by ensuring Californians are unarmed
There's nothing down there to explore. This isn't terra incognito.
It wouldn’t surprise me to see some Reapers and other weapons capable drones being transferred to CBP in the near future.
I used to camp down that way. Beautiful area.
The US Government should be utterly ashamed to post a sign like that. It isn’t no-man’s land. It’s US property BLM land that rather than deal with foreign armed thugs, we post a sign that we have given it over to them.
That sign is such an admission of waiving a white flag. How wimpy can a country get when they essentially give up a part of their land to criminals.
A few weeks ago the media would have quoted “there is no association with terrorism” and “police have no suspects and are reaching out to the public to aid in finding the suspect and any clues.”
” Now what DJT?”
Weapons free?
That particular sign is in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and some of used to be able to do things like hunt varmints (snakes mostly) when we were kids there.
Instead of cleaning up the area of smugglers/cartelista terrorists, the Obama crime syndicate simply put up those signs, which Jan Brewer objected to vehemently.
It never used to be “no mans land”. And shouldn’t be now. Maybe in a few weeks after the Sinaloa trash meets some Special Forces / BORTAC members, it won’t be...
Amazing sign.
Like the Area 51 Roswell one “Do Not Give Rides To ET Hitchhikers.” (Kidding)
They should put a bounty on these people.
“Hold on, there citizen! I see you’ve shot someone.”
“Yes, officer. It was self-defense.”
“I see. Well, this fellow does appear to be covered in tattoos. Good shooting, my man. Let me get your address so that a grateful nation can send you a check.”
Under Biden, the BP would have "Assisted them with the CBP One App and shown them how to apply for asylum in the USA."
You have to be felony stupid to hike any ware near the southern border at this time. I would not enter that area with anything less than an M-4.
Give Trump a few months and this will be sorted out and we can go back to enjoying our country. Until then stay safe and be smart.
I saw those signs along major highways in Arizona.
That looks like brand new wood. Ehen was that sigh put up? Is there more than one?
Someone up to no good.
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