The Cartels Adopted Dangerous Technology to Outsmart Biden Officials - Now Trump's Sending in the Military
President Donald Trump is taking decisive and unprecedented action to secure the border and address the serious security risks posed by our current immigration system.
One major step includes officially designating cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations,” given that these syndicates “constitute a national-security threat beyond that posed by traditional organized crime.”
However, because the cartels were allowed to expand their operations under President Joe Biden’s administration, Trump’s border security team may now be dealing with far more sophisticated criminal networks than they would have encountered just four years ago.
An October report from NewsNation exposed a concerning development—Mexican drug cartels are now using electronic signal jammers to disrupt American drone surveillance at the border.
A security alert sent to all Border Patrol officials along the southern border warned that Cartel del Noreste operatives have been deploying these jammers, which come in various forms, including stationary devices and gun-mounted tools.
These jammers can detect unmanned aircraft, interfere with the connection between a drone and its operator, and ultimately cause the drone to crash or malfunction. Essentially, the technology overwhelms the communication link, leaving the aircraft unable to function properly.
Brandon Judd, president of the Border Patrol Union, told NewsNation that cartel operatives are now equipped with more advanced technology than what U.S. border security teams currently have.
Yet, the use of signal jammers by criminals is not a new phenomenon—it has been seen in other parts of the world as well.
Will Tanner, a writer and attorney known for documenting the decline of South Africa, highlighted a similar pattern in a widely shared post on X. Tanner noted that in South Africa, criminals frequently use these devices during violent attacks on white farmers in remote areas, preventing them from calling for help.
“As most know by now, farm attacks against Boers are utterly horrific and generally encouraged by the South African government,” Tanner wrote.
One South African interviewee explained that these devices are commonly used in “hijackings, cash-in-transfer heists, home invasions, and farm attacks.”
The jammers work by “blocking all incoming and outgoing signals from everything from cell phones to radios to even some security cameras in a range of 25 to 100 meters.”
“The reason they use them for farm attacks is that a lot of farmers are out of the community safety initiative and they rely on radios to be able to call for help to one another, to come and assist,” the interviewee added.
Tanner acknowledged that America is still in a “far better spot than South Africa,” but he pointed out troubling similarities—particularly a government that often ignores certain types of crime due to political agendas.
In the case of the Biden administration, this includes failing to take decisive action against illegal immigration and turning a blind eye to cartels and gangs that are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their use of technology, including signal jammers.
“Though we’re yet to see the combination of stomach-churning brutality and home invasions that are South African farm attacks, we do have all the elements,” Tanner warned, highlighting the presence of violent gangs like MS-13 within the United States.
Trump has only recently begun deploying military forces to the southern border, and the extent of potential conflict between U.S. forces and cartel operatives remains unknown.
However, allowing these criminal organizations to operate unchecked for four years has given them time to grow richer and more technologically advanced—creating a new and dangerous challenge for American border security.