While I understand your point, you clearly don’t understand the situation in that part of the country. Oh, you’ve heard about it on the news, but that can’t completely relate the reality. The man had good reports that there were illegals in that area, and so he responded. What do you think the odds are that it wasn’t illegals? My money is on a cartel hit.
It may not be a Cartel hit in the sense that they targeted him personally or he had some involvement- it is more likely he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The Cartels are crashing down hard on their mules if they lose loads- sometimes they face death. Many illegals are wanted for serious crimes committed on previous trips here. Some of the illegals have a lot to lose if they get caught. I hate to say this but I think we will see more of this type of thing- the Cartels used to only murder their own but they have been kidnapping and murdering people lately that have no connection. This country is showing extreme weakness on the border and bad guys like to exploit weakness.