By Marc Abear –
Air Force General Gregory Guillot, head of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), told the Senate Armed Service Committee that more than 1,000 times a month, drones cross the southern border from Mexico into the United States.
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“I don’t know the actual number — I don’t think anybody does — but it’s in the thousands,” Air Force Gen. Gregory Guillot, commander of North American Defense Command and US Northern Command, said in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
“We … probably have over 1,000 a month,” Guillot estimated.
The New York Post reports the Los Salazar faction of the Sinaloa Cartel has been using drones “to drop explosives” on Los Pelones, a rival Mexican cartel, for years, as part of a cartel turf near an near an Arizona border town.
“The CJNG has been involved with such devices since late 2017 in various regions in Mexico,” Robert Bunker, director of research and analysis at C/O Futures, a California-based consulting firm, told Forbes.
“This cartel is well on its way to institutionalizing the use of weaponized drones,” Bunker said. “None of the other cartels appear to presently even be experimenting with the weaponization of these devices.”
Cartels have been able to use drones against the Mexican military successfully. The Jalisco drug cartel has killed and injured soldiers in the Mexican Army in the state of Michoacán with drone strikes.
Several border agents told The Post they’re aware of drone incursions, saying the craft often are used by cartels in Mexico to surveil law enforcement operations on the US side of the border.
In 2023, Customs and Border Protection said human smugglers were using drones “to surveil” the Border Patrol in what the agency labeled a “growing trend.”
Cartels are multi-billion dollar businesses that purchase and use sophisticated military equipment.
Tsarina Kamala Harris and her PR puppets are trying to whitewash her record on the US Border. They said she was never the border czar (that would be misgendering her) because her record needed sanitizing. I hope they brought more bleach.
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