The FBI warned that Jalisco New Generation Cartel leadership has ordered members to shoot at US CBP agents across the border. The alert was sent specifically to agents working within the Border Patrol's San Diego Sector.

At times Mexican drug cartels either cooperate with each other or they fight against each other to control the lucrative drug trafficking routes from Mexico into the US. The Border Patrol memo says that attacks on US federal immigration agents would "bring heavy scrutiny and retribution" from both the US and the Mexican government to the cartels controlling those areas.

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When the insatiable American demand for illegal drugs ends along with the southward-bound "Iron River" of illegal firearms into Mexico is dammed up, there will be a significant drop in violence on both sides of the US-Mexico border. There is only one firearm store in the entire country of Mexico, located on a military base near Mexico City. Most of the weapons used by the drug cartels to kill civilians, police officers, politicians, rival members, or Mexican soldiers, are manufactured in the US and smuggled into Mexico by American gun-runners.

The Mexican government is suing US firearm manufacturers for $10bn.