The ongoing battles between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Mexican army have ostensibly made Mexico's border towns war zones, as Newsmax's border correspondent Jaeson Jones has reported for months.
The criminal organizations that are well-funded to help get migrants to the U.S. border in crossings like Lukeville, Arizona, and El Paso, Texas, are funding the criminal organizations that battle any law-and-order efforts on behalf of the Mexican army, according to reports.
The cartels are using AK-47s and AR-15s to fight border authorities, causing gunfights that even forced the international bridge to shut down for days.
"This last one was probably the most publicized because the videos made it to mainstream news, but it is not the first one," Joel Pérez, a Sonoyta, Mexico, resident said in a recent interview.
"This is all because of the amount of migrants arriving to this town."
The Lukeville area is in the Tucson sector that qualifies as one of the U.S. southern border's busiest, totaling more than 300,000 illegal crossings in Fiscal Year 2023, according to Customs and Border Protection data.
As both Jones and former acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan reported for Newsmax for years, Biden's border has made the criminal networks in Mexico "more profitable than ever before," as one cartel mercenary said in a recent Fox News interview.
"No one wants to work on anything else right now," the cartel member added in the interview. "Everyone wants to work with the migrants because you can make a lot of money from it these days, and it is easy work.
"Right now it is more profitable to smuggle migrants than to traffic bricks of cocaine, and with less risk if you get caught."