Category Archives: Drugs and Cartels

Days after revealing the agent shootings, CBP announced the arrest of more than a dozen fugitives and the seizure of over $2.5 million worth of narcotics in El Paso area ports of entry. In the span of just a few days, the feds seized 650 pounds of marijuana, more than 60 pounds of cocaine, 12 pounds of fentanyl, and seven pounds of methamphetamine. 

While President Biden’s Afghanistan debacle justifiably receives the world’s attention and vast media coverage, the Mexican border in the U.S.’s own backyard should not be ignored. Besides the unparalleled onslaught of illegal immigrants, the region is becoming increasingly violent with unprecedented criminal activity that includes a distressing escalation in drug smuggling and brazen attacks against American federal agents. Organized Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) are behind the movement, and they are a serious threat to national security and public safety, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the frontline Homeland Security agency charged with keeping terrorists and their weapons out of the U.S. 

Examples provided by the agency in the last few days alone help illustrate the disturbing reality along the nation’s 2,000-mile border with Mexico. Federal agents are overwhelmed as criminal elements are fortified and boldly execute human and drug smuggling missions. Federal agents that might get in the way of their illicit operations have become targets of the TCOs, which “are heavily involved in smuggling people, including terrorists, criminals and trafficking victims, as well as weapons, cash, and drugs through sophisticated criminal networks,” CBP writes in a recent statement confirming that several Border Patrol agents have come under gunfire recently in Texas and California. The agency goes on to say that “TCOs conduct their operations without regard for human life—money and power are their only motivation.”

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