Two weeks after the Department of Homeland Security secretary warned a room of dignitaries in Detroit about the heightened increase in violence against immigration officials, chaos erupted in Texas near the Mexican border on Monday.
You might not know it from local news, but an armed Michigan man opened fire on federal agents at an ICE facility Monday. One Michigan news outlet mentioning the suspect was from Michigan headlined the piece: “Ludington man shot and killed by border patrol agents in Texas,” omitting who the attacker was in the confrontation.
According to statements by DHS and local law enforcement, Ryan Louis Mosqueda, 27, who is of Hispanic descent, approached a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, at approximately 5:50 a.m., driving a vehicle later identified as a white two-door Chevrolet coupe.
Exiting the vehicle, he engaged with federal agents exiting the facility, ultimately wounding a police officer. Agents returned fire and killed Mosqueda.
The tragic circumstances gave way to more details as reports emerged from local Texas media that the shooter’s father, Jose Mosqueda, may have been aware of his son’s pending actions and was stopped by local traffic enforcement officers in the area during the early morning hours urgently searching for his son.
Vague reports indicated a form of Latin graffiti emblazoned on the shooter’s vehicle circulated, and images were released depicting “Cordis Die” written in black paint on the passenger side door.
Local and national media platforms made passing mention of this phrase, vaguely connecting it to the online gaming community.
Cordis Die, translated to “Day of the Heart,” is an anarchist-populist political movement embedded in the fictional Call of Duty game series started in 2012, framed around a fictional era of judgement set to begin on June 19, 2025.
Multiple social media accounts constructed around the motif were active on various social media platforms using ominous far-left radical social justice vernacular.
The vehicle images from Texas media outlets depicted a white Chevrolet Cobalt with a Michigan license plate. That vehicle and plate are currently registered to Ryan Louis Mosqueda, at a Ludington address.
Mosqueda and his extended family appear to be long-time Ludington residents, with his father, Jose, apparently splitting his time between Ludington and Weslaco, Texas, located only miles away from McAllen.
Attempts to contact Mosqueda’s parents and extended family went unanswered.
According to Enjoyer sources, most local Michigan news outlets were made aware of Mosqueda’s Michigan connections and seemed less than interested in reporting on them.
A man from Michigan shoots up border enforcement agents, on the same day another armed assault took place in Alvarado, Texas, in what seems to be a coordinated time frame, and the media doesn’t take notice?
Local law enforcement—the Ludington Police and Mason County Sheriff’s office—were also remaining quiet on Mosqueda.
Ludington Police Chief Christopher Jones acknowledged Mosqueda and his family resided in the area, just outside Ludington city limits, in Mason County. He was aware of Ryan Mosqueda, the shooting in Texas, and refused comment on the matter, however he did reveal his department’s last contact with him was over a decade earlier.
The Mason County Sheriff’s department stated their office was aware of the shooting in Texas but had no further comment on the matter. Additional department sources stated they were aware of the FBI’s investigation into the matter but were not involved or coordinating with federal authorities.
A spokesperson with the Michigan FBI field office in Detroit declined to comment on their investigation and referred all inquiries to the Department of Justice website.
The local media silence is harmful to the general public—particularly in the current American landscape.
Eli Lake, the Washington-based columnist for The Free Press and contributing editor for Commentary Magazine, made a startling declaration in December 2023 when he theorized the left-wing response to a potential second Trump presidency would become militant.
“If Donald Trump wins, we’re going to see Weathermen 2.0,” Lake said at the time, referencing the left-wing militant organization Weather Underground.
Lake was elucidating on the growing feeling within the nation—based on breathtaking anti-American and antisemitic activity on college campuses and in urban hubs—that political violence on behalf of extreme left-wing and anarchist groups was on the horizon.
He was right, and violence against police and federal ICE agents has become almost a weekly occurrence. But recent attacks by potential self-radicalized anarchist and potentially left-aligned individuals not fitting the “white male shooter” narrative has chilled the media elites and forced them into a disquieting silence.
Something tells me if Ryan Mosqueda was a 45-year-old white guy with MAGA in his social media profile, corporate media would be reporting on what he posted on Facebook in 2012, interviews with his neighbors, and an in-depth interview with a high school science teacher before his body was cold.
While Michigan left-wingers seem to be losing their damn minds, choosing violence, and attacking federal law enforcement, local in-state media have no time to cover it. And media elites wonder why they’re bleeding readers.
Jay Murray is a writer for Michigan Enjoyer and has been a Metro Detroit-based professional investigator for 22 years. Follow him on X @Stainless31.
