Border Patrol agents fired upon from Mexico, return fire: sources

FIRST ON FOX: Border Patrol brokers patrolling the Rio Grande Valley Sector have been fired upon from throughout the Mexican border on Wednesday, a number of legislation enforcement sources informed Fox Information. 

The Particular Operations Group, a part of Border Patrol Tactical Operations (BORTAC), have been shot at from past the border, after which returned hearth – no one on both aspect was hit.

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In an announcement to Fox Information, Customs and Border Safety (CBP) confirmed that brokers responded to a report of suspected migrants close to Fronton. The assertion additionally confirmed that the incident is being reviewed by each the FBI and CBP’s Workplace of Skilled Duty.

Fox is informed that the Mexican army had engaged with cartel members in a shootout on the Mexican aspect, at which level a person fled and tried to cross into the U.S. through a close-by river. When a BORTAC agent jumped into the water to rescue him, the agent was fired upon.

It occurred in the identical space the place Texas Nationwide Guard members have been shot at from Mexico simply final month. The suspected shooters have been believed to be gunmen from a drug cartel, nevertheless it was not clear. No Nationwide Guard members have been harm.

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It is usually the place Fox Information personally witnessed tracer hearth from a cartel machine gun coming into U.S. territory.

That space in Roma is considered as cartel land and is the place the Gulf cartel and Cartel Del Noreste struggle for management of the town in Mexico throughout from Roma – Ciudad Miguel Aleman.

Closely armed teams have gotten a extra widespread sight alongside the Texas-Mexico border, authorities mentioned. Final month, Texas Division of Public Security officers informed Fox Information that suspected cartel members concerned in human smuggling have been sporting tactical gear and armed with AK-47s whereas taunting Nationwide Guard troopers throughout the Rio Grande. 

Mexican cartels have been recognized to commit acts of violence on migrants touring to the U.S.-Mexico border, however it’s uncommon for them to confront American legislation enforcement or army troops. 

There have been greater than 178.840 migrant encounters in December, and Republican lawmakers have warned that the persevering with disaster on the southern border is simply serving to encourage cartels and prison organizations that facilitate a lot of the human smuggling, trafficking and the drug commerce on the border.