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Mexican Cartel-Connected Group Attempts Ambush of Breitbart Border Reporters in Texas

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — An apparent smuggling group controlling a border neighborhood in Texas attempted to ambush a team of Breitbart reporters who were investigating security conditions on the Texas border with Mexico. The Galaxia “colonia” or neighborhood of western Brownsville, Texas, is in a region controlled by factions of the Mexican Gulf cartel. The neighborhood is notorious for drug and human smuggling and spillover violence. This reporter was there with Ildefonso Ortiz on assignment for Breitbart Texas and we were joined by a local reporter for a Spanish-language news outlet when frightening events began to occur. The local reporter asked not to be identified by name due to safety concerns for his family.

The matter began when sources in law enforcement told Breitbart Texas that the neighborhood that sits immediately on the U.S.-Mexico border was seeing high levels of successful and uninterrupted narcotics shipments and that a belief existed that some law enforcement on the U.S. side of the border were allowing the crimes to occur–an all-to-common occurrence in the region that is elaborated upon at the conclusion of this article.

Once in Brownsville on the night of December 7, the Breitbart Texas team met up at night with a local news reporter who knows the area and had agreed to go on his personal time to point out some of the key crossing points. That reporter parked his vehicle in the parking lot of the Brownsville Police West Side Substation with the belief that the well-lit parking lot and surveillance would keep his vehicle safe. His vehicle was clearly marked with the Spanish-language news outlet’s logos on both sides.

Breitbart Texas visited and documented several of the areas with evidence of high levels of illegal border crossings and made a short video showing the most egregious unsecured segment in the region.



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