US Border: Feds Target Cartel "Scouts" Along Smuggling Routes
Mexican Agents also target scouts in joint cross-border operation
The Mexican Cartels that move drugs and people across the border into the U.S. rely on a network of observation posts on remote high points along their smuggling routes so their "scouts" can watch for law enforcement activity and warn passing smuggling "guides" by radio or cell phone to avoid being caught.
Officers on both sides of the border have been targeting those bases in recent days.
The photos above show Mexican government agents destroying two cartel observation posts - equipped with electricity from solar cells and batteries to power their radios and phones atop Mexican mountains overlooking a smuggling route into neighboring Arizona.
The Chief of the Tucson Border Patrol Sector says the Mexican Agents "lit up" the posts after their US counterparts notified them of their locations. This action by Mexican Authorities follows raids of other cartel observation posts on the US side of the border there in recent days:
The Chief of the US Border Patrol says his agents arrested two camouflaged "scouts" manning a cartel observation post on an Arizona Mountaintop on February 25, 2025. The Border Patrol Chief says that the outpost was also equipped with solar cells to power radios and cell phones and that the scouts were found with binoculars to watch over the smuggling route below.
Eight days earlier, Tucson Sector Border Patrol Agents had arrested another camouflaged Cartel "Scout" watching that same smuggling route from another Arizona Mountaintop.
The cartels, though, aren't giving up their Arizona desert smuggling routes without a fight.
The Chief of the US Border Patrol says that on February 24, 2025, agents arrested a camouflaged cartel smuggler who admitted to unplugging equipment the Border Patrol installed to alert them to activity along one of their Arizona smuggling routes.
Those Border Patrol Agents are about to get more help in their battle against Cartel Smugglers.
The US Northern Command has announced it is deploying more than 2,900 additional troops to the US Southern Border - including a Stryker Brigade Combat Team - which they say will bring the number of US troops assigned to Southern Border Security to approximately 9,000 soldiers.
Do you believe the Border Patrol & US Military Forces will be able to close the Cartel Smuggling Routes across our Southern Border with Mexico?
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Abrazos,
Jack Beavers
