The Mexican cartels appear to be smuggling drugs into the U.S. inside cows, according to sources interviewed at the border in Texas and New Mexico last week. The cartels are known to use cattle cars to smuggle drugs, but also seem to be using the cattle themselves as couriers.
“When they do the spaying process, they’ll ship the drugs in the cows,” Hudspeth County, Texas, Sheriff Arvin West told The Daily Signal, adding the cartels are nothing if not ”creative.”
Sporting a cowboy hat and a badge pinned to his chest, West said the cartels began using bovine couriers for drugs when Mexico started shipping more heifers — young female cows that have never given birth — into the U.S. due to shrinking U.S. cattle inventory.
The U.S. imported more than 1.2 million head of cattle from Mexico in 2024, a little over 400,000 of which were heifers, according…
