Ted Cruz

Panic broke out at Guadalajara International Airport on Sunday, with videos posted on social media showing airport staff and travelers fleeing the building.

But the airport and Mexican federal government said that the airport was operating as normal and there was no risk to flyers.

In the northern border city of Reynosa, which is located right across the river from McAllen, Texas, main roads and entrances were blocked with burning vehicles, according to local media reports.

Vanda Felbab Brown, an expert on non-state armed groups at the Brookings Institute, said the significance of Mr. Oseguera's killing rivaled that of the capture of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as El Chapo,

in 2016, or of his former partner Ismael Zambada Garcia, known as El Mayo, in 2024.

Look, this is rapidly unfolding.

There are reports of cartels targeting American citizens, going after them.

It's a dangerous time.

This could change in the hours and days ahead, but

I am certainly glad that a major cartel leader who has been smuggling drugs into the United States, has been responsible for killing Americans, is no longer with us.

But it makes it very dangerous for the people of Mexico and potentially very dangerous for Americans as well.

I think that's a very fair assessment.

As you'll recall, in August of last year, I went down to Mexico.

I did a trip to El Salvador and Panama and Mexico, and I met with senior officials in the Mexican government.

And the message I conveyed to them is that they needed to get serious fighting the cartels to stop the drug trafficking into America, to stop the human trafficking into America.

And the message I conveyed is if you don't get serious, President Trump is going to.

And this was before the Maduro raid, but the Maduro raid was not a surprise in that it was clear the president was going to do what is necessary to keep America safe.

And my message and the Mexican leaders did not like that.

When I conveyed that message, I said, look,

we're not going to let you just sit there and turn a blind eye while these transnational criminal organizations flood poisons into America and kill Americans.