According to a news report, members of the brutal Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico have been “given permission” to fire at U.S. Border Patrol agents.

An internal memo was transmitted to federal agents in the El Paso Sector warning the agents of the new danger, NewsNation reported. According to a report broadcast on the outlet, “Mexican cartels have given permission to its members to shoot at U.S. agents at the border.”

The memo revealed that two days prior, shots had been fired at contractors working in the Eagle Pass area of Texas’ Del Rio Sector. The new problem has arisen following the internecine fighting among members of the cartel after cofounder Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada and Joaquín Guzmán López, the son of imprisoned Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, were arrested by U.S. authorities on July 25.

“They fear no one anymore, especially U.S. law enforcement,” former Homeland Security Investigation agent Victor Avila told NewsNation. “They do have the resources and they do have the capability, and they will use them against us. … The No. 1 reason they fight for these plazas is because these plazas are the corridors to enter the United States, whether California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and that’s the major fight because the Sinaloa cartel has controlled that whole area.”

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Former President Donald Trump has his own blunt opinion about the problem at the border, recently saying, “We need a military operation. These people have become military. They’re very rich, have a lot of money. They’re among the richest people, probably in the world.”

“We have long heard from Border Control agents that they face increased risks in their frontline jobs,” Rep. Mark Green, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, stated. “These reports are just further proof that the cartels will stop at nothing to take what they want. Our border patrol agents deserve policies that will make their jobs easier. Unfortunately Biden and Harris have given them the opposite.”

“People live in fear, schools are empty, young people are disappearing, the streets are empty at night,” Miguel Calderón, State Council on Public Safety general coordinator, said. “We have a social emergency on the horizon.”