A group of Cuban migrants landed what appears to be a homemade boat on a beach in the Florida Keys on Independence Day Agents arrested the migrants and processed them for removal from the United States.
Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a Mexican national on Monday after he attempted to achieve the American dream by donning scuba gear and navigating through the Colorado River into the United States.
A group of Gulf Cartel gunmen attacked the number two state official in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas as he traveled along a highway that leads to the border city of Reynosa.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers recovered the bodies of four migrants from the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass. The drowning victims included an infant who was carried into the border river. The drownings occurred in three separate incidents over a 48-hour period.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents rescued four Mexican migrants who fell victim to the scorching heat of the Arizona desert. One of the migrants had to be flown by helicopter to a Tucson-area trauma center.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced an expansion to the number of daily asylum appointments available to migrants seeking admission through one of several southwest border ports of entry. The increase will raise the daily total of migrant admissions through the application from 1,250 per day to 1,450. According to CBP’s announcement on June 30, the number represents a nearly 50 percent increase from the daily total appointments available from May 12, when CBP officers began processing 1,000 appointments daily.
A nine-year-old migrant child died in an Arizona hospital after succumbing to heat-related organ failure. The little boy crossed the border into the Arizona desert with his mother and sibling where he suffered the effects of the intense heat.
A narco-terrorist organization, the Gulf Cartel, kidnapped three innocent laborers after mistaking them for rivals. The case turned fatal when one of the kidnapping victims died in a car crash along with two cartel gunmen who were moving him.
La organización narcoterrorista conocida como Cartel del Golfo secuestró a tres trabajadores inocentes después de confundirlos con rivales. El caso se volvió fatal cuando una de las víctimas del secuestro murió en un accidente automovilístico junto con dos sicarios mientras los llevaban a otra parte.
A potential tragedy was averted in the small border city of Eagle Pass, Texas, when Maverick County Sheriff’s Office deputies stopped a tractor-trailer on Thursday. After noting suspicious behavior by the truck driver and noises coming from the trailer, the deputies searched the pneumatic tank trailer being towed by the driver and located 18 migrants sealed inside.
A video provided to Fox News shows a Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agent appearing to cut a Texas-erected razor-wire border barrier. After opening the barrier, the agent allowed multiple migrants to enter the U.S. freely.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and Border Patrol agents seized guns, ammunition, and cash being smuggled toward Mexico.
Cartel gunmen ambushed and killed one of the founding members of a self-defense group made up of villagers who took up arms to fight cartel oppression. The slain figure was one of several freedom fighters that gained international fame in Michoacan for helping villagers fight against drug cartels in 2013.
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sent a message to one of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels telling them to release 16 kidnapped police employees “or I’m telling your parents.”
Mexican authorities formally charged a leading figure with the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas for the murder of a respected journalist in the border state of Tamaulipas. Authorities believe the journalist was murdered for his work covering crime in the region. The charges come a year after the murder and are part of a larger investigation into the criminal organization’s shootings, kidnappings, and murders in the region.
A large group of cartel gunmen stopped a bus filled with police officers and administrators in southern Mexico. The gunmen loaded them into a cargo truck and escaped with complete impunity.
A Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agent and a civilian motorist were seriously injured when the driver crashed his vehicle at a high rate of speed into an interior immigration highway inspection checkpoint. The agent was staffing the inspection station at the time of the accident, which occurred shortly after noon on Wednesday.
Authorities in Mexico City arrested a social media influencer with over a million followers on TikTok in connection with an ongoing investigation into an armed robbery at a jewelry store.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations officers in Nogales, Arizona, stopped two major drug shipments over the weekend. In two separate incidents, the officers seized more than 670,000 fentanyl pills and nearly 48 pounds of methamphetamine. These officers seized nearly two million fentanyl pills in less than two weeks.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrested four “special interest aliens” who illegally crossed the border between ports of entry. Troopers arrested an Iranian male, a Chinese male, and two Moldovan males in three separate incidents.
A group of gunmen used hammers to break through what appeared to be bullet-resistant glass during a robbery in an upscale shopping center in Mexico City. The robbers spent almost ten minutes beating the windows at the jewelry store without interference from armed security or police officers.
Officials in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas used their official social media accounts to discredit recent news articles about cartel shootouts. At the same time, these officials made false or misleading claims about the circumstances surrounding the shooting events.
Mexico’s Immigration Officials dismissed claims of abuse by a Colombian actress who flew into Mexico City. The allegations come at a time when agents with Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) continue to be linked to numerous acts of corruption, abuse, and bribery while the country has become a hotspot for human trafficking and human smuggling.
A suspected migrant smuggler led Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and Kinney County Sheriff’s Office deputies on a high-speed pursuit that began near the small community of Brackettville, Texas. A trooper first spotted the suspect’s vehicle late Sunday night on a rural Farm-to-Market Road leading away from the border region. The pursuit ended when the suspected smuggler’s vehicle left the roadway and rolled several times, causing damage to a private ranch gate.
Two drug cartels with a long history of animosity appear to have set their differences aside in an attempt to gang up on a rival organization. The new alliance led to the continued fierce turf war over control of lucrative drug and human trafficking routes into Texas.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents saved the life of a migrant who suffered severe dehydration after being abandoned near the border in South Texas in record-breaking heat. Temperatures in the area are forecast to hit nearly 110 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday, and highs will remain over 100 degrees for at least the next two weeks.
Texas Department of Public Safety Tactical Marine Unit troopers arrested a Mexican national for allegedly smuggling migrants across the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass. The Texas troopers teamed up with Florida Fish and Wildlife game wardens deployed to the border region under Operation Lone Star.
Authorities in the Mexican border state of Sonora revealed that a cartel-connected human smuggling network recorded videos showing the beating of migrants with a paddle in an effort to extort their loved ones. Sonora is the same Mexican border state where the Sinaloa Cartel made headlines for using a paddle to torture local food vendors and small business owners as part of an extortion scheme.
The blistering heat along the Texas border in the Del Rio Sector claimed the lives of at least four migrants during a 24-hour period this week. The weather forecast calls for high temperatures above 105° Fahrenheit for at least the next week.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers found ten unaccompanied migrant children left on the bank of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass. Temperatures in the area were exceeding 115 degrees Fahrenheit at the time.
One of Mexico’s most violent cartels sparked a new controversy by threatening to kill all escorts and other sex workers who don’t pay protection to them. The threats come at a time when Mexican politicians continuously claim a decrease in crime.
The Texas Senate passed a resolution containing 31 rules for the impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton. The trial is scheduled to begin on September 5 at 9 a.m.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrested a man they say is a Gulf Cartel operative near the border town of Mission. The troopers report the Mexican national, illegally present in the U.S., helped five migrants cross the Rio Grande
At least four people died, and nine others were injured in a tornado that ripped through a tiny town in West Texas. The tornado struck the town at about 8 p.m. on Wednesday.
The ongoing heatwave impacting South Texas has claimed the lives of two migrants since Saturday, according to a source within Customs and Border Protection. Temperatures in the border city of Eagle Pass remained at or above 110 degrees Fahrenheit for nearly six consecutive days. The source revealed that two deceased migrants were located just north of the Texas border.
Border Patrol agents along the southwest border with Mexico apprehended nearly 170,000 migrants who crossed between ports of entry in May. While this is down from the more than 183,000 apprehended in April, it is more than double the 71,141 apprehensions in January 2021 — the month President Joe Biden took office.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers discovered three migrant children who had been abandoned near the banks of the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass. In a separate incident, troopers also found two single adult males from Uzbekistan.
A dramatic video captures the nighttime rescue of a migrant woman and her child as they became trapped in the swiftly moving currents of the Rio Grande. The rescue took place near the Anzalduas Dam near Mission, Texas on June 14.
A suspected migrant smuggler led Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol troopers on a high-speed pursuit that began on June 13 in the small community of Brackettville, Texas. When troopers attempted to stop the suspicious vehicle within the incorporated area of the city, the driver allegedly chose to flee. The vehicle left the city limits on a rural farm-to-market road and reportedly reached speeds in excess of 115 miles per hour.
U.S. Representative Lance Gooden (R-TX) reintroduced a bill last week to help reduce migrant “child recycling” to bypass immigration policies and cut down on child-trafficking practices. The bill became necessary after the Biden administration ended a policy put in place by then-President Donald Trump to test the familial relationship between a migrant and a child.
