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Border Czar Tom Homan has announced a major escalation in the United States’ stance against Mexican drug cartels, vowing to “wipe them off the face of the earth.”
This stern warning follows a dangerous confrontation on Monday, where U.S. Border Patrol agents engaged in a firefight with suspected cartel gunmen along the volatile U.S.-Mexico border.
Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) agents and U.S. Border Patrol members faced a barrage of gunfire from suspected drug cartel operatives near Fronton, Texas on Monday.
According to Lt. Chris Olivarez of the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), the confrontation erupted as agents conducted routine surveillance along the treacherous Rio Grande, Breitbart reported.
The agents, finding themselves under heavy fire, were forced to return gunfire and take shelter in dense brush lining the river’s edge.
The standoff happened as a group of illegal aliens tried to cross the river during a shootout. Luckily, no Border Patrol agents or suspected cartel members were injured.
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BREAKING- Active investigation on the Texas border in Fronton after border patrol agents were fired upon by suspected cartel members on the Mexican side attempting to cross a group of illegals , agents returned gunfire , no one was hit.
Border patrol agent advised me to leave… pic.twitter.com/P3l6X5ZH6h
— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) January 27, 2025
BORTAC units from the Border Patrol arriving at the scene here in Fronton as the investigation continues after agents were fired upon by suspected cartel members https://t.co/4A2WT72HCt pic.twitter.com/4NwxtrZik2
— Jorge Ventura Media (@VenturaReport) January 27, 2025
“It’s going to get worse Sean, because President Trump is going to seal that border. He’s going to put the cartels out of business. He declared them a terrorist organization,” Homan stated in an interview with Sean Hannity.
It can be recalled that Trump signed a new executive order to designate these groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs).
The executive order specifically targets notorious cartels such as the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, as well as violent gangs like MS-13 and Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua.
Homan continued, “We got the whole of government is going to dismantle these people and wipe them off the face of the earth. They are not going to go lightly.”
“We are taking them on in the trafficking business, we’re taking them on in the smuggling business and we’re taking them on in the dope business.”
“There’s going to be more violence on the southwest border, that’s why trump committed to calling them a terrorist organization. He has.”
“That’s why the entire United States government is going to take care of those people and abolish them. We’re going to attack them not just in Mexico, but in the 42 countries the Jalisco Cartel is currently residing in.”
“The Trump administration is going to take them on, just like he did the Caliphate, and we’re going to destroy them.”
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“The whole of government is going to dismantle these people and wipe them off the face of the earth.”
Things are heating up fast.
Border Czar Tom Homan just announced that the U.S. is preparing to wage… pic.twitter.com/eEH9fKTpXL
— Overton (@overton_news) January 28, 2025
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