Three priests with the Catholic Church have been kidnapped and murdered in Mexico in less than a week. The high profile murders mark the latest chapter in Mexico’s ongoing crime wave that continues to spread.
MCALLEN, Texas — Despite the many assurances provided by the Obama Administration, the flow of Central American illegal immigrants continues to climb and is expected to surpass previous records.
Two cartel-linked smugglers admitted to their role in a drug distribution group that moved substantial quantities of marijuana from the border into various American cities.
EDINBURG, Texas — Teams of gunmen have been running rampant in various communities near the Texas border, storming into homes demanding drugs or robbing victims at gunpoint.
RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas — A Texas border cop is believed to have helped dispose of weapons and vests used for kidnappings and murder on behalf of a Mexican cartel-linked criminal organization.
MCALLEN, Texas — A suspected drug smuggler crashed an older model luxury vehicle into an irrigation canal during an attempt to flee from authorities.
A suspected illegal immigrant is believed to have stolen a car at gunpoint in the border city Rio Bravo, Texas before fleeing the area.
PHARR, Texas — A Cinemark theater’s managerial staff harassed a local off-duty cop for carrying his service pistol in their location.
A maintenance worker assigned to the police department in this border city has been arrested for using his government vehicle to move four kilograms of cocaine.
Hundreds of African asylum seekers have flooded Mexican border cities with the U.S. in an effort to get to California and Texas to obtain U.S. asylum — many of the unvetted migrants are from the terror hotbed of Somalia. Rather than having to hide along the way, the African migrants have been getting a special permit from Mexico that gives them a free pass to the U.S. border.
Federal authorities have arrested a suspected member of a Mexican drug cartel living in Lubbock. The man was wanted on federal drug trafficking charges.
LAREDO, Texas — A man from a Texas border city was able to illegally cross into Mexico where he was shot and then cross back to seek medical attention. The bizarre incident highlights the lack of local border enforcement.
Republican Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump has taken credit for the resignation of a failing Mexican public official during his recent visit to that country.
Knights Templar cartel gunmen shot down a police helicopter in the Mexican State of Michoacán. Authorities have seized multiple RPGs, rockets and other ground-to-air weapons.
The resources of Mexican transnational criminal organizations, also known as cartels, will be seized and used to fund Donald Trump’s border wall if he wins the 2016 presidential election. The wall, which several previously high-trafficked areas of the U.S.-Mexico border already have–whether an actual wall or a several tiered fencing and integrated technological system–has been a controversial issue to pundits and politicians who lack information on the subject.
Raging cartel violence, widespread corruption, human rights abuses and a tanking economy have made Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto one of the most vilified figures in that nation’s recent history.
A recent poll found Pena Nieto’s approval rating at its lowest ever with 80 percent holding a negative view of the president, Mexico’s Animal Politico reported. When the pollsters asked to rate Peña Nieto’s performance on a scale of 0-10, the average score was only 3.9 points. The trend has intensified in recent months with his approval tanking from 30 percent in April to the current low of 23.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Authorities discovered a sophisticated marijuana production facility that had been disguised as a home with more than 100 plants.
An illegal alien accused of having shot a Dallas woman before going back to Mexico has been arrested at the Texas border.
The visit to Mexico by U.S. Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump has drawn sharp criticism from former Mexican President Vicente Fox, the same politician who allowed drug cartels to expand exponentially in size and power under his watch.
Authorities on the Arizona border have identified a previously-deported, Mexican drug cartel member as the prime suspect in the 2008 dismemberment of two men. The suspect’s brother is considered a person of interest and has no legal status in the United States.
A Democrat Texas State Senator publicly stated that the Democrat Party has taken minorities for granted. The statement was made by Texas Democratic Senator Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa Friday afternoon during a panel hosted by the Texas Tribune in this border city. In one of the questions, Tribune CEO Evan Smith brought up Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump’s effort to court African-American and Hispanic voters.
ESCOBARES, Texas — Cartel smugglers operating near this border town had been using an underground bunker hidden under a rural house to stash more than 5,100 pounds of marijuana.
Authorities in San Antonio found a headless body burning inside of a trash dumpster near an apartment complex on the city’s east side. The gory discovery raises serious questions as to the murder having been yet another cartel decapitation in Texas.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — The former mayor of this Mexican border city was seen having breakfast with relatives and friends, despite being a wanted fugitive of the U.S. Department of Justice.
EDINBURG, Texas — Law enforcement officials from this border region are coming together to help their fellow officers that have lost their homes to the flooding in Louisiana. Over the weekend off duty law enforcement officers started a collection drive to
MCALLEN, Texas — Authorities in this border city are warning travelers about a series of ointments that have peyote and marijuana as their main ingredients. The drugs are being seized at border entry points from individuals who may not have been aware that they were smuggling actual drugs.
Federal authorities have arrested 24 members of a Los Zetas-tied drug trafficking group that operated on the Texas side of the border moving large quantities of narcotics and cash.
A newly leaked security video shows the moments when cartel gunmen stormed an upscale restaurant in the resort town of Puerto Vallarta to kidnap the son of famed drug lord, El Chapo.
Mexican authorities have revealed that the son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin El Chapo” Guzman may be among the group of men kidnapped from an upscale restaurant in the resort town of Puerto Vallarta.
SAN JUAN, Texas — A concerned citizen helped lead Border Patrol agents and local police to a stash house in this border city where 34 illegal immigrants were being held.
Mexican authorities are scrambling to rescue at between 12 and 16 victims who were taken at gunpoint from an upscale restaurant in the resort town of Puerto Vallarta.
PORT ISABEL, Texas — Border Patrol agents rescued three boaters from a vessel that was sinking in the waters near the Texas Coast.
A Texas family has been identified among those kidnapped by the Los Zetas cartel in Mexico as cartel violence continues to take hold of the border region surrounding Nuevo Laredo.
EDINBURG, Texas — Texas border authorities are issuing a warning about the extreme temperatures that have been linked to the death of five illegal immigrants in nine days.
EDINBURG, Texas — Community organizers for higher taxes were accused of lying to low income voters to when pushing a petition for ballot access. Despite the validity of some signatures being questioned, county officials accepted them and voted to include the proposal in the November General Election.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas – El ex alcalde de esta ciudad fronteriza ha caído en otro de sus desvaríos delirantes afirmando que el decomiso de los bienes por el gobierno de Estados Unidos no es más que un ataque de los medios de comunicación. El ex alcalde llamó aberrante que los funcionarios de otro país estén auditando al gobierno de México.
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — The former mayor of this border city has gone on another of his delusional rants claiming that the seizure of assets by the U.S. government is nothing more than a media attack. The former mayor called it “abhorrent” that officials from another country were auditing the government of Mexico.
A U.S. senator compared the actions of the Obama Administration to those of a Mexican drug cartel in regards to the way $400 million in cash was sent to Iran.
McALLEN, Texas — A local ballot measure supported by Hillary Clinton donors hopes to levy a new tax on one of the poorest regions in the country in the spirit of improved public health.
The governor of the Mexican state of Michoacan has singled out one of the mayors in his state, several local police officers and one state cop as being responsible for the murder of several victims whose bodies were incinerated.
