Billion-dollar Mexican cartel ops disrupted by Trump's border crackdown as US issues do-not-travel warning

Mexican and U.S. authorities are warning travelers of IEDs found along dirt roads near an area of northeastern Mexico that borders McAllen, Texas.

"[W]ith the sudden end of the Biden-Harris open-border policies, the cartels are no longer making billions of dollars in human trafficking." "The cartels were given carte blanche access to the United States through the open-border system." "We think of the Middle East as extremely violent, wouldn't want to go there, but all we have to do is look towards Mexico." Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.

"[T]he state of Tamaulipas has issued a warning to avoid moving or touching improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which have been found in and around the area of Reynosa, Rio Bravo, Valle Hermoso, and San Fernando along dirt and secondary roads," a State Department travel advisory for Tamaulipas reads. "IEDs are being increasingly manufactured and used by criminal organizations in this region."

The U.S. Consulate in Mexico notes in the advisory that an IED destroyed an official Mexican government vehicle in Rio Bravo on Jan. 23, injuring its occupant.