Violence is growing along the Rio Grande Valley, where Mexican drug cartels are threatening to use drones to drop bombs on U.S. Border Patrol agents, according to a U.S. Border Patrol memo obtained by Newsmax. 

“This is a major increase in threat to the United States, and it’s specifically in the southern region where we’ve been talking about recently, where we’ve had a lot of gun battles between the U.S. Border Patrol and with Cartel del Noreste near Fronton, Texas,” Newsmax’s Jaeson Jones reported. 

The memo from the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector, dated Thursday, urges personnel to take all precautions and states that the cartels have “authorized” the use of “weaponized drones (explosives) being used against the Border Patrol and U.S. law enforcement officers.”

Read more at Newsmax© 2025 Newsmax. All rights reserved.