Ildefonso Ortiz

A Facebook post has created controversy in Mexico as the public demands to know how a mid-level politician was able to afford a new Porsche sports car for his son.

MCALLEN, Texas — A female bodybuilder is facing federal charges in yet another case involving women injecting liquid rubber into buttocks near the Texas border with Mexico.

RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas – The wife of a U.S. federal agent has been convicted and sentenced for cheating the government out of food stamps and Medicaid despite her husband’s salary.

A Mexican federal judge from the border city of Matamoros freed the mayor of the town of Cocula, Guerrero, who had been accused of working for a drug cartel in connection with the case of the 43 butchered education students from Ayotzinapa.

MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – A series of kidnappings in the Mexican border city of Matamoros prompted the U.S. Department of State to issue a security warning to American travelers.

During the immigration crisis of 2014, Mexico, a country known as an illegal immigration corridor used by human and drug smugglers, increased its deportation efforts and ended up surpassing the number of Central Americans that the United States deported during the year.

A Mexican soldier is believed to have murdered his wife and six children before hanging himself in the town of Ecatepec in the central State of Mexico just before Christmas Eve.

MCALLEN, Texas – As federal agencies continue to look into a series of 911 threats where a suspected Mexican cartel member claimed to have kidnapped a U.S. Border Patrol agent, the agency tasked with securing the borders confirms that none of their agents have been kidnapped.

The high profile murders appear to have no end in Mexico as the country now rallies around the kidnapping and murder of a Catholic priest in the violent Mexican State of Guerrero; the priest is the third religious man to be murdered in that state this year and just one of many kidnapped priests.

A new version of the standing travel advisory issued by the U.S. Department of State now includes a resort area that had remained relatively calm, but in recent months has seen a sharp spike in cartel violence.

MCALLEN, Texas — A person claiming to be a cartel member called 911 in the border city of La Joya, Texas stating that they had kidnapped a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

MCALLEN, Texas — A Mexican border teenager is accused of luring a pregnant woman on Facebook for the purposes of murdering her and cutting open her midsection to remove the unborn baby.

Federal agents seized two bottles with more than 8 pounds of liquid methamphetamine hidden inside liquor bottles. The drugs were seized from two men trying to get to Oklahoma from the border city of Laredo, Texas.

Mexican authorities have arrested the Social Development Secretary for the Mexican border city of Matamoros on apparent tax evasion charges.

MCALLEN, Texas — The latest scandal surrounding Mexican corruption and politics deals with Mexican authorities exonerating the brother of a former president who had been accused of ransacking millions out of the president’s secret account as well as making money through other corrupt means.

A disabled man from California has been sent to prison for using his wheelchair and special van to smuggle weapons and ammunition for the infamous Knights Templar cartel. A U.S. District judge in San Diego sentenced 53-year-old Sergio Garcia Rico

MCALLEN, Texas – An illegal alien from Mexico who was working as a choir teacher for a Texas border church has been arrested for allegedly trying to seduce an 11-year-old girl. Authorities believe other girls may have been victimized. Police

The Governor of the Mexican State of Guerrero confirmed a second mass disappearance of students in the rural communities of his state. While the September kidnapping of 43 education students by police made headlines worldwide, an older kidnapping of 27

BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Birth certificates, food stamps, fake ID’s and even sexual services are all for sale in various Facebook pages from the Texas border. With names like La Pulga Online (No Rules) La New Pulga Online, Las Milpas FB

MCALLEN, Texas — A human smuggler from Mexico is facing up to 20-years in prison after a federal grand jury indicted him on a conspiracy to transport illegal aliens and eight counts of transporting illegal aliens for a fateful attempt

A fierce firefight just south of the Texas border resulted in the death of two gunmen as well as a considerable amount of property damage. A third gunman also died in a recent shootout. The shootout took place this week

BROWNSVILLE, Texas  — A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer accused of taking money from Mexican drug traffickers and possibly stashing tens of thousands of dollars in Mexico will remain jailed until his trial date Next year. On Thursday

MCALLEN, Texas — A massive gas explosion and fire south of the Texas border forced Tamaulipas authorities to scramble firefighters and emergency personnel. Unlike previous explosions, no injuries have been reported. The explosion took place Wednesday afternoon near the rural

Sheriff’s deputies raided a Houston-area drug lab in northeast Harris County that was making meth doses disguised as ecstasy pills. The lab was located in a strip mall next to a daycare and a church. So far four men have