According to reports, there were no injuries in the incident near Fronton Island, an uninhabited island in Starr County, Texas.

U.S. Border Patrol was involved in a shootout with cartel members in the Rio Grande Valley, the Texas Department of Public Safety says. The tense moments unfolded Monday in

President Trump wants to deploy a blunt new tool to fight Mexican cartels that flood the U.S. with drugs, by adding them to a list of terrorist groups that includes the likes of al Qaeda and Hamas. The move could increase pressure on the cartels by directing more money to intelligence gathering.

Mexican drug cartels are reportedly planning drone attacks on US Border Patrol agents in response to Trump's border policies, as revealed in an internal memo.