HOME INVASIONS IN HIDALGO COUNTY, TEXAS: Hidalgo County is on the Texas-Mexico border– across the Rio Grande from the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Yes, home invasions by armed thieves occur throughout the US. However, the attacks described in this article mimic similar attacks in nearby northern Mexico that are associated with drug cartel turf wars. Over the last two years I’ve read several reports of home invasions by gangs in Texas. In at least one of them the attackers struck a house holding a large shipment of drugs. This December 2015 attack is similar to the one I recall. Note this comment in the December 2015 article:

Along the Texas border, the term “home invasions” is not used to describe common burglaries. The term is used to describe teams of gunmen that storm homes they believe are being used as stash houses to hide drugs, bulk cash or illegal aliens.

Here is another attack that occurred in May 2015. The attackers thought they were hitting a stash house. They were wrong,

The home invasions described in the September 21, 2016 Breitbart article appear to be very violent robberies, not attempts to steal drugs per se. But who knows. The article mentions a robbery by gunmen traveling in a SUV. This type of attack occurs far too frequently along highways in the northern Mexican states of Coahuila and Tamaulipas. Here is an earlier report on the home invasions by a TV station in the Rio Grande Valley.