Ding, Ding, Ding give that man a cigar! What many fail to realize the Mexican military works with, for or are the cartels. From an SAIC in DHS I have known since High school (and that’s a long, long time ago) where ever the Mexican military goes near the border so goes increased human and drug smuggling. Up to the division commanders in some cases the Mexican military are for all practical purposes cartel jefe’s. They use military equipment/personnel to guard drug and human smuggling operations including regular incursions into the US. Almost 100% certain this was a case of Mexican soldiers running interference for a drug run no matter what BS story you hear about a “mistake” on the news.
Getting shot at from across the boarder is not uncommon as one might think. I have another high school friend who is now retired LEO who was shot at in two separate incidents from the Mexican side of the border while he was a Cochise County sheriff’s officer, a period of about 10 years before he switched departments. For those that do not know that is a southern Arizona county with many many miles of US/Mexico border.
I have been in hill top hides used by cartel scouts to radio in BP unit locations to drug runners while hunting in southern AZ, specifically the Sierra Colorado mnts. This is not even close to the border, we are talking 20 miles plus into the US. Fortunately the BP stepped up their presence in that area massively and shut down a lot of what was going on. Yet we still find trees with a hundred back packs left under them from smugglers and illegals. Trash everywhere. Tuna cans and water bottles, clothes. It’s like walking down an San Francisco street, at least from what I have seen on the news about SF lately. Last hunt there even found abandoned back packs full of drugs (pot in that instance) apparently dumped when the BP came after them. A few well place slashes with sharp knife left the contents exposed enough for the desert sun and weather to take care of the abandoned cargo.
Areas of the Arizona border have been closed to hunting by AZ Game and Fish due to “high illegal activity”. This situation on the border is absolutely nuts! They need to build that damn wall and change the friggen laws so they can ship them back as soon as they catch them. I say a build a tall wall but with a wide gate. Control who comes and goes and know who the hell they are and make sure they go home when they should. End of rant.