I seriously hope not. We don't need US troops getting hurt, and we don't need a quasi-war with Mexico. This sounds like a bunch of teenagers who say "We're so tough, and we're carrying knives please let someone start with us." , without realizing that there is nothing to be gained from a fight. These coyotes are serious criminals. A fight, and deaths, will only encourage them, and the people they are escorting are ignorant and desperate enough that walking through a warzone won't discourage them at all.