Interim US Attorney for Minnesota: 'Minnesota is a narcotics hub for Mexican cartels'

U.S. intelligence says most immediate threat to America are Mexican cartels

Cartels and gangs pose the most direct danger to the U.S., intelligence officials said Tuesday as they delivered their annual global threat assessment to Congress.

By Shania Shelton, CNN General Gregory Guillot, commander of US Northern Command, said Mexican cartels are looking for new ways to bring people and drugs across the border, leading to an increase in cartel violence. “They’re looking for new ways to bring their products, whether it’s drugs or people, across the border because of the border enforcement measures that have been put in place over the last two months,” Guillot said when asked about ho…

Interim US Attorney for Minnesota: 'Minnesota is a narcotics hub for Mexican cartels'

On March 21, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota charged 11 people in a big meth bust involving multiple kilos and a kidnapping in St. Paul with ties to a Mexican drug cartel.

Lawmaker Eyes New Panel on Mexican Drug Cartels

Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, introduced a resolution March 27 that would form a bipartisan House committee to develop policy recommendations to counter Mexican drug cartels. The House Select Committee to Defeat the Mexican Drug Cartels would...

General Gregory M. Guillot, commander of the U.S. Northern Command UU. (USNORTHCOM, for its acronym in English) and the North American Aerospace Defense Command, warned, on April 1, 2025, that the tightening of security measures on the southern border with Mexico had generated an increase in violence between drug trafficking cartels, which were looking for new... Source

The reinforcement of control measures on the southern border of the U.S. border has increased the violence between the cartels, which seek new ways to cross people and drugs to U.S. soil, acknowledged General Gregory Guillot, commander of the North Command. During a hearing before the Armed Forces Commission of the House of Representatives on the U.S. military posture in North and South America, Guillot was questioned about how the cartels are r…