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Border Patrol Agents Exchange Gunfire with Mexican Drug Cartel
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/ ^ | 1/27/2025 | cristina laila

Posted on 01/27/2025 6:40:32 PM PST by bitt

President Trump’s first order of business was to declare an emergency on the US-Mexico border.

The Mexican drug cartel was put on notice today that they are no longer in charge of the US border.

Border Patrol agents exchanged gunfire with Mexican drug cartel members on Monday as they tried to bring a group of illegals over the border in Fronton, Texas.

The illegals did not make it across the river.

Nobody was struck on either side.

Via Fox News reporter Bill Melugin: Per multiple law enforcement sources, within the last hour, Border Patrol agents near Fronton, TX were fired upon from MX by suspected cartel gunmen as a group of illegal aliens were being brought across the river. I’m told BP returned fire, nobody hit on either side, and that the illegal aliens did not make it across.

BREAKING: Per multiple law enforcement sources, within the last hour, Border Patrol agents near Fronton, TX were fired upon from MX by suspected cartel gunmen as a group of illegal aliens were being brought across the river. I’m told BP returned fire, nobody hit on either side,…

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 27, 2025

Texas DPS is patrolling the area and using a drone to monitor the Mexican side.

Texas DPS @LtChrisOlivarez tells me DPS is now patrolling the area and has a drone in the air and can see Mexican military assets now staging on the other side of the river. pic.twitter.com/z61RkrVvEq

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 27, 2025

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: borderpatrolagents; gunfire; mexicandrugcartel
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1 posted on 01/27/2025 6:40:32 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 01/27/2025 6:40:44 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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Bring some artillery up. Shouldn’t take much...


3 posted on 01/27/2025 6:42:45 PM PST by OKSooner ("I'd be safe and warm, if I was in LA... " Mama Cass Elliott, 1966)
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To: bitt

Too bad a flight of warthogs weren’t around.
Would put the love of Jesus into their hearts


4 posted on 01/27/2025 6:44:04 PM PST by South Dakota (Vance / Trump...2028)
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Sounds like the cartels are trying to give the 82nd Airborne (now deployed to the border) a good reason to ‘stir things up’ down there in Mexico.


5 posted on 01/27/2025 6:44:11 PM PST by BobL
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Put A-10s and Apache’s on call. A couple of fire missions and there will be no more shooting


6 posted on 01/27/2025 6:44:47 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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Nobody was struck on either side.

Good and bad news.

Good - No border patrol casualties.

Bad - No cartel casualties.

7 posted on 01/27/2025 6:45:07 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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“Nobody was struck on either side.”

We got to get some night vision on U.S. rifles.


8 posted on 01/27/2025 6:47:04 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: South Dakota
Too bad a flight of warthogs weren’t around.
Would put the love of Jesus into their hearts

For the first few milliseconds...

9 posted on 01/27/2025 6:47:51 PM PST by null and void (I hoped it was the Bee but it’s California.)
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To: OKSooner

A10s. Long loiter time, low and slow.

Anything moving towards the border, Warthog gives it a squirt from the ‘30.

They want war, we will wage war…White Man style.


10 posted on 01/27/2025 6:49:20 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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“Mostly peaceful” invaders.

/s


11 posted on 01/27/2025 6:51:13 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: BobL

Might lead to much of Mexico become South Texas.

Shouldn’t have let it go in the 1850’s.


12 posted on 01/27/2025 6:52:42 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: bitt

Saw this earlier, were the BP aiming to miss, or do they need more range time?


13 posted on 01/27/2025 6:54:55 PM PST by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV group-think!)
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To: bitt

Trump/Vance Starsky and Hutch

https://youtu.be/_NojjH-jUu0?si=P8iPHBrsjrhG9cL3


14 posted on 01/27/2025 6:55:21 PM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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15 posted on 01/27/2025 7:01:55 PM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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Have a couple of Predator drones loiter in the area. Zap the bastids.


16 posted on 01/27/2025 7:04:03 PM PST by The Louiswu (You get what you vote for, good and hard.)
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That is from that 160 acre fortified island in the center of the Rio Grande, “Fronton Island”.

Is is disputed territory, but the cartels us it as a base. We have a US Military unit that specializes in assaulting islands.

The USMC needs to be tasked with taking that island, and then notifying Mexico to sending Army representatives to jointly hold it as a cartel “no go” zone.


17 posted on 01/27/2025 7:07:25 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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Nobody was struck on either side.

What was the range? What was the weapon? Our guys need to up their game.

18 posted on 01/27/2025 7:10:00 PM PST by LouAvul (Rom 8:9b: if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. )
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Folks, don’t get me wrong, I LOVES me some A-10s, but a few Predators with a pair of Hell Fires could light up their tree-houses in a Glorious way.


19 posted on 01/27/2025 7:14:01 PM PST by End Times Sentinel (In the conflict between the stone and the stream, the stream will always prevail.)
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“I’m told BP returned fire, nobody hit on either side.”

Fine each BP Agent involved $5 and have them spend a week at remedial marksmanship training.

L


20 posted on 01/27/2025 7:15:40 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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