Breaking: FBI Memo Warns of CJNG Orders to Attack US Border Agents
Federal authorities have issued an urgent officer safety alert following the interception of intelligence indicating that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) has instructed its members to carry out armed attacks against U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel.
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According to an internal federal memo based on FBI intelligence, CJNG leadership has formally directed operatives to target U.S. agents along the southern border. The alert, circulated to agents in the San Diego and El Paso sectors, warns that cartel members have been authorized to use snipers firing from the Mexican side of the border and to deploy drones equipped with explosives. This escalation follows reports from earlier this week that cartel leaders are reacting to “loss of profits” and heightened U.S. enforcement measures. Agents have been advised to maintain extreme situational awareness, wear full ballistic armor, and utilize long guns while on patrol.
Background Info
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), led by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes (“El Mencho”), is widely considered one of Mexico’s most aggressive and militarized criminal organizations. Unlike the Sinaloa Cartel, which has historically favored bribery and corruption over direct confrontation with the U.S. government, CJNG has a track record of brazen violence. This includes the 2015 downing of a Mexican military helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade and the 2020 assassination attempt on Mexico City’s police chief. While CJNG violence is rampant within Mexico, direct sanctioned attacks on U.S. federal agents on American soil would mark a historic and dangerous shift in cartel strategy.
Objections & Analysis
Security analysts and former intelligence officials have expressed skepticism regarding the strategic logic of such an order. Historically, Mexican cartels explicitly avoid targeting U.S. law enforcement to prevent the overwhelming “kill or capture” military response that would inevitably follow—a consequence that would dismantle their business operations. Some experts suggest this intelligence may reflect the boastful rhetoric of mid-level commanders rather than a top-down directive from El Mencho himself. Furthermore, similar threats in the past have often been intended to intimidate agents into reducing patrols in specific smuggling corridors rather than to initiate an actual kinetic conflict. However, given the CJNG’s unpredictable nature and recent pressure from U.S. interdiction efforts, officials are treating the threat as credible and imminent.
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