The Gulf Cartel continues to send teams of gunmen into Texas to steal four-door vehicles and smuggle them into Mexico to resupply their paramilitary wing. The ongoing crime wave leads to regular high-speed chases and, at times, vehicle carjackings at gunpoint. The Gulf Cartel is one of six cartels labelled as foreign terrorist organizations by the Trump Administration.
Mexican cartels are increasing their use of drones to replace human scouts to monitor the activity of U.S. Border Patrol agents along the border. The drones are reportedly replacing the human scouts who were frequently minors.
In exchange for a plea of guilty, a federal judge in San Antonio sentenced a Honduran illegal alien to ten years in prison for his role in leading a human smuggling organization that brought nearly 3,000 migrants into the United States without authorization. The judge also fined the Honduran national $4,500.
The Arizona arrest of a Canadian mobster with ties to Irish, Indian, and Middle Eastern crime syndicates uncovered just one of the networks used by the Sinaloa Cartel to move narcotics from Mexico and the U.S. into Canada and then into multiple other countries.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the HALT Fentanyl Act into law, which permanently schedules fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs.
Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced that her government would be filing a lawsuit in the Mexican court system against a U.S. defense attorney who called her and her government corrupt. The attorney is the same individual who represented one of the leaders of Los Chapitos in court.
Ovidio Guzmán López se declaró culpable de cuatro cargos federales la semana pasada en una audiencia celebrada en el Distrito Norte de Illinois. A sus 35 años, el hijo de El Chapo Guzmán aceptó los cargos por operar una organización criminal y conspirar para traficar drogas, incluyendo fentanilo y tráfico de armas.
Ovidio Guzmán López pleaded guilty to four U.S. federal charges last week during a hearing held in the Northern District of Illinois. At 35 years old, El Chapo Guzmán’s son accepted the charges for operating a continuous criminal organization and conspiring to traffic drugs, including fentanyl, and arms trafficking.
Prosecutors in the District of Arizona filed federal charges against a Phoenix-area business owner for employing illegal aliens. The owner, an illegal alien from Mexico, was also charged with being an alien in possession of a firearm.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent who drowned last week while saving his children from a rip current while vacationing in South Padre Island had lost his father six months earlier to an explosion. Gulf Cartel gunmen had turned rural ranch roads in northern Mexico into minefields.
One of the largest, most complex rescue and recovery efforts in Texas history was put on hold Sunday as flooding returned to the Guadalupe River in Central Texas. The task of meticulously searching through and clearing the miles of debris piles that remain continues to be a heartbreaking, painstaking task.
In an ironic twist, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sparked a news controversy after exchanging barbs with the lawyer representing Ovidio Guzman, one of the sons of jailed kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The Mexican politician is claiming to be offended after the U.S. lawyer called her government corrupt for having protected an infamous Mexican army general accused in a U.S. court of drug trafficking.
Police in San Antonio arrested a Texas man Thursday night after he allegedly threatened to assassinate President Donald Trump. The alleged threat was made in a Facebook post, where the man reportedly wrote, “I won’t miss.”
The Trump Administration announced that it will be implementing a 30 percent tariff on all commercial goods that move north of the border. President Donald Trump took the punitive action due to Mexico’s failure to do enough against drug cartels
Immeasurable sorrow and grief can be felt in the air along the banks of the Guadalupe River in the quaint Texas Hill Country town of Kerrville. A downtown memorial honoring more than 100 flood victims, many of them children, is a stark reminder of the horrendous loss of life caused by the Independence Day weekend floods.
Immigration and Enforcement Operations (ICE) officers arrested nearly 1,400 criminal aliens in the Houston area in June. Officials told Breitbart Texas that these criminal aliens include 32 child predators, nine murderers, one illegal alien convicted of hijacking an airplane, and 16 cartel or gang members.
As the recovery and relief efforts continue in response to the deadly Independence Day Flood in Kerrville, hundreds of volunteers work tirelessly to keep more than 2,000 rescue workers and flood victims fed. One volunteer group, Operation BBQ Relief, served more than 4,000 meals in just one day.
Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, criticized the U.S. government after the American Secretary of Agriculture announced the closure of the border to cattle from Mexico. The secretary ordered the closure due to the ongoing spread of the deadly New World Screwworm, a plague that can be fatal to humans.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of a man who they say fired at federal law enforcement officers near Camarillo, California, this week. Videos captured by a news helicopter’s crew show the man appearing to draw a handgun and fire at federal authorities.
The wife of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed for divorce in Collin County, Texas, on Thursday. Angela Paxton, a popular Texas state senator, alleges adultery as a fault ground in the divorce petition. In a statement on social media, she also cited “recent discoveries.”
As search and rescue operations continue in the aftermath of the deadly Independence Day flood in Kerrville, Texas, local officials are bearing the brunt of activist news reporters who appear hell bent on politicizing the tragedy. With little to no evidence provided, one story in the Texas Tribune suggests that local officials may have stood idle for more than three hours instead of acting to save lives.
The governor of Sinaloa claims that all is well in his state, while the ongoing turf war between rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel has propelled his state to lead the nation in murders. That same politician is the one who had been singled out by political rivals as having had a close relation with Sinaloa Cartel leaders and having been caught in the middle as the two main factions went to war last year.
Authorities in Kerrville, Texas, are asking the public to keep clear of the Guadalupe River flood zone and allow the more than 2,000 rescue workers to do their jobs. At a Wednesday press briefing, a representative from the Kerrville Police Department said the number of people visiting the area to look at the damage is hindering rescue operations.
A Harris County Precinct 4 Deputy Constable arrested a man who reportedly attempted to interfere with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement workplace enforcement operation near Houston on July 9. The man, who is the son of the owner of the business visited by ICE agents, allegedly chased the agents and then struck one of the vehicles as it stopped at a traffic light.
The recent arrest of Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chávez Jr. by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents has caused his father and namesake to come out swinging in his defense.
Four anti-ICE activists were arrested after allegedly planting homemade tire deflation devices around vehicles belonging to federal law enforcement agents conducting immigration enforcement operations in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles. The incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon.
As Border Patrol agents carried out an immigration related enforcement operation, guarded by a contingent of U.S. Marines, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and a group of protesters intervened. Despite the protests, the operation went on as planned. El Centro Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gregory K. Bovino, who led the operation, says the opposition from Bass and others will have no impact on the federal government’s will to enforce existing immigration laws.
Authorities in Mexico are remaining tightlipped about how a team of gunmen was able to hijack a truck carrying 33 tons of gold and silver concentrate. The high-stakes robbery comes as Mexico’s government continues to claim that public safety is improving and that the country is safe.
The recent sanctions imposed by the Trump administration on two banks in Mexico and a brokerage firm sparked widespread controversy and speculations about the future of financial institutions in a country where even the White House has previously accused top Mexican government officials of having an intolerable relationship with drug cartels.
Rioters in Mexico City trashed cafes and looted stores in ritzy neighborhoods as they protested against tourism and foreigners who migrated there from the U.S. and Europe.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported that a San Antonio City Council candidate called for the shooting of ICE agents on the streets of Los Angeles. The threat by the self-described Democrat political consultant comes as ICE agents are increasingly assaulted, and a Border Patrol station in Texas came under attack from a gunman.
A gunman wearing black tactical gear stormed a U.S. Border Patrol station in South Texas where he got in a shootout with federal agents and police before authorities neutralized him.
Authorities in the border state of Chihuahua are working to identify the bodies of 338 individuals who were piled up inside a crematorium in the border city of Juarez. The bodies were meant to be incinerated, but for unknown reasons, they were just bagged and placed on top of each other. At the same time, relatives got urns with cement or other materials that funeral officials passed off as ashes.
Texas Governor Gregg Abbott warned residents of the state to expect more storms to pose a danger to parts of central Texas over the next 24-48 hours. Abbott made the comments at the start of a Sunday press conference held in Austin to inform residents of the latest news regarding the devastating Independence Day floods that have resulted in the deaths of nearly 70 people.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the number of people who are reported missing as a result of the Independence Day weekend floods is expected to increase in the coming days. The governor explained that many adults and families who camp in tents and RVs along the rivers may not be reported missing by their families until they fail to return home after the extended holiday weekend.
Officials in Kendall County, Texas, report the rescue of two girls who went missing during the Independence Day weekend flooding in the Texas Hill Country. Rescuers found the girls 30 feet up in a tree along the Guadalupe River.
News reports indicate that the number of people who are confirmed to have died in the Independence Day weekend flooding reached nearly 70. The search for 11 missing girls and a counselor from Camp Mystic and others continues.
In what is being described as a miracle in the Independence Day Flood, a Texas man led rescuers to a woman who managed to climb into a tree after being swept 20 miles downstream in the raging Guadalupe River. The swiftly moving currents swept a vehicle carrying the woman and her parents off a low-water crossing.
An Ingram, Texas, man died in the Independence Day flood as he took action to save the lives of his family. The man sustained a fatal laceration as he broke out a window to help his family climb to the roof to escape the rapidly rising waters of the Guadalupe River.
In addition to the border infrastructure funded by President Trump’s One Big Beautify Bill, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced plans to quickly install 17 miles of floating border barrier in the Texas Rio Grande Valley. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem signed a waiver on Thursday to ensure the construction of the barrier is not impeded by environmental regulations.
