Mexico, on September 19, 2024. Ivan Medina/Getty According to the U.S. Treasury Department, the Gulf cartel uses fishing boats to shift drugs and smuggle migrants. During their journeys ...

is active in the Mexican cities of Reynosa and Matamoros, across from McAllen and Brownsville, Texas. According to the U.S. Treasury Department, the Gulf cartel uses fishing boats to shift drugs ...

Mexican fishing boats in the Gulf “are prohibited from entering U.S. ports, will be denied port access and services,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wrote in a report in 2022.

"At one point red snapper season was three days in the Gulf of Mexico," Banks ... humans directly in their boats. "They're not coming here, grandma and grandpa, to fish for their family, to ...