A Texas Guardsman shot a suspected cartel operative in Mexico while witnessing a violent assault on a group of migrants.
A Texas National Guard soldier shot and wounded a suspected cartel operative in Mexico while witnessing a violent assault on a group of migrants preparing to cross the border into the United States, according to sources within the Texas government. The Guardsman reportedly observed the man armed with a pistol and a machete beating a migrant on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande near El Paso.
“The Guardsman observed a group of cartel agitators approaching a group of migrants on the southern bank of the Rio Grande,” one source indicated. “One of the cartel members had a pistol at his waist and was wielding a machete.” “The cartel members jumped into a vehicle and sped away before Mexican law enforcement officials arrived,” a second source source indicated.that the Chihuahua State Attorney General’s Office confirmed that a male had been injured near the international bridge connecting Juarez and El Paso. Chihuahua Health authorities told the local news outlet that doctors at General Hospital treated the man for a through-and-through bullet wound in his right leg. The man was later discharged from the hospital.
“I am deeply troubled by this escalation in force on our border by the State of Texas. We are not at war with Mexico,” the state senator said in a statementBased in El Paso, the Border Network for Human Rights told the local outlet that the injured man was “practicing sports near the border while a group of migrants was crossing the border.”
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