‘Absolutely Vile’: Mexican Drug Cartel Members Threatened GOP Senators Near Texas Border

'Coyote' people smugglers gesture as they stand on the Mexico side of the Rio Grande river near the US the border city of Roma on March 28, 2021. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images

Apparent Mexican drug cartel members threatened Republican senators from across the Rio Grande in Texas when they visited the border as Border Patrol officials grapple with a surge in illegal immigrants and human smuggling, according to one of the senators.

“We went right there at midnight [on Friday] to the Rio Grande River, and we were really taunted by Mexican cartel members,” Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mt.) told Breitbart. “They didn’t know it was Republican senators who were staying there—literally on the water’s edge in the brush—but they knew it was probably Border Patrol. They could hear the English voices.”