Posted on 10/20/2025 5:10:03 PM PDT by Morgana
Mexican cartels have reportedly placed bounties on United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Chicago, offering to pay up to $50,000 for the assassination of high-ranking officials.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced in a Tuesday statement that it had obtained “credible intelligence” that Mexican criminal networks are working with domestic extremist groups to coordinate a “tiered” bounty system.
Mexican cartels are working with street gangs in Chicago and groups like Antifa “to monitor, harass, and assassinate federal agents,” according to the DHS. The federal agency alleged that cartels “have disseminated a structured bounty program to incentivize violence against federal personnel,” offering different sums of money depending on the actions taken.
According to information gathered from an ongoing investigation, cartels are allegedly offering $2,000 for intelligence gathering or doxxing agents, which includes photos and information about their families.
Cartels are willing to pay $5,000 to $10,000 for kidnapping or non-lethal assaults on standard ICE and CBP officers and up to $50,000 for the assassination of high-ranking officials, according to the DHS.
Gang members affiliated with groups like the Latin Kings have deployed “spotters” to track the movements of ICE and CBP officers to enable ambushes or to help disrupt immigration raids, the DHS stated, adding that spotters station themselves on rooftops equipped with firearms and radio communications.
The federal agency also claimed that Antifa groups in Portland and Chicago have interfered with the deportation of “cartel-linked individuals,” in addition to doxxing agents and supplying pre-staged protest supplies.
“These criminal networks are not just resisting the rule of law, they are waging an organized campaign of terror against the brave men and women who protect our borders and communities,” Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem stated.
“Our agents are facing ambushes, drone surveillance, and death threats, all because they dare to enforce the laws passed by Congress,” Noem added. “We will not back down from these threats, and every criminal, terrorist, and illegal alien will face American justice.”
On Oct. 6, the agency announced the arrest of Juan Espinoza Martinez, a criminal illegal alien and Latin Kings gang member accused of placing a bounty on the Commander at Large of the U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino.
The arrest happened after a confidential source provided information on Oct. 3 about a “hit” that a member of the Latin Kings Street Gang had placed on Bovino, according to the DHS statement from earlier this month.
ICE Homeland Security Investigations identified Martinez as the individual who placed the hit before arresting the gang member on Oct. 6 in Burr Ridge, Illinois.
The DHS also shared a screenshot of a Snapchat conversation that HSI Chicago received of a user named “Juan” offering $2,000 for information, “cuando lo agarren,” which translates to “when they catch him.” The message, which Martinez is suspected of sending, included a photo of Bovino.
In addition to the first message, Martinez is accused of sending another one that promised a $10,000 reward “if you take him down” before sending a third message that allegedly indicated the Latin Kings’ involvement, stating, “LK….on him.”
“Depraved individuals like Juan Espinoza Martinez — who do not value human life and threaten law enforcement — do NOT belong in this country. We will not allow criminal gangs to put hits on U.S. government officials and our law enforcement officers,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated.
“Thanks to ICE and our federal law enforcement partners, this thug is off our streets and behind bars,” McLaughlin added. “These attacks on our brave law enforcement officers must END. Secretary Noem has been crystal clear: If you threaten or lay a hand on law enforcement, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Martinez was charged with one count of murder-for-hire for soliciting the murder of a senior law enforcement official, according to an unsealed complaint cited by the DOJ.
The complaint, unsealed earlier this month in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, labels Martinez a “ranking member of the Latin Kings.” The Chicago-based street gang’s criminal activities include “narcotics trafficking, extortion, murder, assault, firearms trafficking, armed robbery, kidnapping, burglary, money laundering, racketeering, and intimidation.”
It’s time to give those cartels the same treatment Osama Bin Laden got.
Long past time.
U.S. Special Forces need to visit these cartel aholes in Meh-ico and have a little “talk”....ahem....with them.
With “little talk” do you mean “bunker busters”?
Time to nuke Mexico from space.
How long do we have to put up with this aggressive, law breaking , parasite nation?
How many more Americans have to die because of these arrogant beggars and murderous criminals?
Time to make Mexico a glass parking lot.
Isn’t that a bit ridiculous to say? Why not targeted action?
Half the American people think it’s fine to kill Trump and ICE agents——watch the soundbite clips from the No Kings marches.
But according to the U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis there are no threats or reason for DHS use of tactics. This judge and the new one to pop up, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings threatening to arrest ICE agents for performing their lawful duties need to be removed from the bench.
In Rio Bravo, John Wayne noted that the recent dead hired guns he searched to get coins to pay for their burials were now carrying higher amounts. Getting more serious on the bounties paid to kill Wayne and his deputies.
And the Rick Nelson character remembered hearing the “show them no quarter” death song the enemies were playing all night against Wayne and his deputies, was from the Mexicans.
Prove it now, Samantha Kamman .
Declare war now.
When the black people refused to cooperate with police and kept their mouths shut about the location of the fugitives (even when a child was held) it made them look really bad.
“Snitches get stitches.”
Now, as law abiding Latino people who have lived here already have a chance to tell what they know about the bounties on ICE agents, I suggest they use that chance to turn them in.
Anti-immigrant rioters will not be able to distinguish types of people. This is true in UK and elsewhere, and in more than a dozen anti-immigrant riots in the US from 1800 to recently.
A timely, relevant, and apt correlation ya have there, frank ballenger...
The cartels are already here.
In Georgia recently they busted a Sinola cartel ‘’command’’ house in the middle of a quiet residential neighborhood.
Pounds and pounds of crystal meth, cocaine. fentynal, wads of cash, AKs and an RPG were found in the house. An RPG for God's sake! There were police scanners and there is even an investigation into the possibility of a cartel informant in the police department. Don't take my word for it. Go to You Tube and see the videos for yourself. There are dozens of these ''command'' houses all over the US. This is a war. Mexican cartels run the Mexican government and they're killing Americans. It's either them or us.
When JD Vance gets the election stolen from him, it will be free rein on Trump-ites, including their families. And Harris/Pete/Gavin Newsome/AOC/whoever will be helping and encouraging. All because Trump can't close the deals that COUNT.
Fully automatic weapons, bunker busters, etc. Whatever it takes.
Destroy the Fentanyl pill factories while they’re at it.
I agree. They’re just as demonic as Hamas and they need to be eradicated!
Any democrat governors and politicians allowing this terrorism to go on in their cities need to be arrested.
They’re probably being paid to allow this evil horse shit to go on unfettered.
“The federal agency also claimed that Antifa groups in Portland and Chicago have interfered with the deportation of “cartel-linked individuals,” in addition to doxxing agents and supplying pre-staged protest supplies.”
Arrest OR Gov Kotex, Sen Waxface Wyden and Sen Moron Merkley after shooting the sombreros off their heads.
Pro tip: Vote for Kamala next time
Although perhaps you’ve already filled in that spot on your bingo card...
I wouldn’t go that far. But instead of those Iraq & Afghan wars where the goal was “nation building”, we should have taken care of our own back yard. Mexico represents a clear and present threat to our nation. Iraq and Afghanistan never did.
The problem with my idea was politics. The sand box wars were huge laundromats for the MIC. And our dear elites hooked on quality drugs certainly did not want Mexico invaded for their drug supply as well as illegal voters would dry up.
The Secretary of War need to name some new cruise missiles “Geronimo” and send it up the arse of any cartel member.
” I have killed many Mexicans; I do not know how many, for frequently I did not count them. Some of them were not worth counting.” -Geronimo
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