{"id":20244,"date":"2025-07-09T06:32:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T06:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=20244"},"modified":"2025-07-09T06:32:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T06:32:46","slug":"gunman-ambushes-border-patrol-agents-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=20244","title":{"rendered":"Gunman Ambushes Border Patrol Agents In Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Brid Video Matching --><\/p>\n<p>A gunman ambushed Border Patrol brokers at an annex constructing in McAllen, Texas Monday morning. Not less than two cops and a Border Patrol worker had been injured.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release to Fox Information, the Division of Homeland Safety stated each Border Patrol brokers and native police helped neutralize the shooter.<\/p>\n<p><em>This morning a person opened hearth on the entrance of america Border Patrol sector annex in McAllen, Texas. Each Border Patrol brokers and native police helped neutralize the shooter. Two officers and a Border Patrol worker had been injured, together with one shot within the knee. All three have gone to the hospital. That is an ongoing investigation led by the FBI.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In a separate incident, a number of suspects had been arrested after a police officer was injured in a capturing at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, within the late-night hours of the Fourth of July, officers stated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>McAllen Police Chief Victory Rodriguez stated at a information convention that there have been \u201cmany dozens\u201d of rounds fired on the constructing and the brokers inside. The gunman didn&#8217;t enter the constructing, he stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBorder Patrol brokers returned hearth and subsequently neutralized, that&#8217;s killed, the person who had opened hearth upon the constructing,\u201d Chief Rodriguez stated.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman was recognized as Ryan Louis Mosqueda, 27, the police stated. His final identified tackle was in Ludington, Mich., however he had connections to Weslaco, Texas, about 16 miles east of McAllen, The New York Occasions reported.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"iframe-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: A 27-year-old man in tactical gear and wielding a rifle opened hearth on federal brokers on the southern border in McAllen, TX this morning. The person was subsequently killed by officers and has been recognized as Ryan Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>This information comes as DHS reviews violence\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NUDE9eX5GG\">pic.twitter.com\/NUDE9eX5GG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/devorydarkins\/status\/1942256293214814305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Associated: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/border-patrol-applications-hit-record-high-everyone-wants-to-be-a-border-agent-now\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">Border Patrol Applications Hit Record High \u2013 Everyone Wants To Be A Border Agent Now!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A federal regulation enforcement supply advised CBS Information Saturday that native police arrested eight individuals. The official stated a few of these apprehended had been carrying physique armor. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The supply advised CBS Information that early reviews point out that greater than a dozen masked people wearing black arrived on the Prairieland ICE detention facility late Friday night time and vandalized autos and safety cameras within the parking zone.<\/p>\n<p>The people launched fireworks in an obvious effort to lure regulation enforcement, the supply stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re carefully monitoring the assaults on DHS detention amenities in Prairieland, TX, and Portland, OR, and are coordinating with the USAOs and our regulation enforcement companions,\u201d\u00a0 Justice Division Deputy Legal professional Common Todd Blanche\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DAGToddBlanche\/status\/1941531862880428299\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">said<\/a>\u00a0in a social media put up. \u201cThe Division has zero tolerance for assaults on federal officers or property and can carry the total weight of the regulation towards these accountable.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The assaults got here as congressional Democrats had been ramping up the rhetoric and stirring up a harmful mob by referring to brokers as Nazis and terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur personal base is telling us that what we\u2019re doing is just not adequate \u2026 [that] there must be blood to seize the eye of the press and the general public,\u201d one lawmaker\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/07\/07\/democrats-trump-resistance-violence-congress\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">told Axios.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Associated: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/here-are-the-violent-criminals-ice-agents-were-attacked-for-arresting\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">Here Are The Violent Criminals ICE Agents Were Attacked For Arresting<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One other Home Democrat stated constituents have advised them \u201ccivility isn\u2019t working\u201d and to arrange for \u201cviolence \u2026 to battle to guard our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Syndicated with permission from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toddstarnes.com\/crime\/gunmen-ambush-border-patrol-agents-in-texas\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">ToddStarnes.com<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 based by best-selling writer and journalist Todd Starnes. Starnes is the recipient of an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award and the Related Press Mark Twain Award for Storytelling.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/gunman-ambushes-border-patrol-agents-in-texas\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gunman ambushed Border Patrol brokers at an annex constructing in McAllen, Texas Monday morning. Not less than two cops and a Border Patrol worker had been injured. In a press release to Fox Information, the Division of Homeland Safety stated each Border Patrol brokers and native police helped neutralize the shooter. 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