The crash of a Jet Rescue Air Ambulance aircraft in northeast Philadelphia killed six people and left six people on the ground injured Friday evening. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro called the crash “an awful aviation incident.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers teamed up with local law enforcement to arrest members of the Tren de Aragua gang on fentanyl-dealing charges. President Donald Trump recently designated the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).
A former Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office deputy in South Texas will spend almost four years in prison for his role in staging fake drug busts as a way to steal drugs from drug cartel members.
The air traffic control tower at Reagan National Airport was not at its normal level at the time of the collision between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet on Tuesday. It is not clear if this impacted the circumstances leading to the crash.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks reported a 55 percent drop in migrants encountered along the border during the past week. Migrant apprehensions fell from more than 10,000 during the previous week to less than 5,000 during the past seven days.
The U.S. Consulate in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, issued a travel warning about drug cartels using land mines and other explosive devices in key border cities in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. After initially trying to conceal information about those devices and having previously tried to discredit previous alerts dealing with cartel kidnappings, the Tamaulipas government claimed to welcome the warnings and asked the public to be careful when moving through rural dirt roads.
El Consulado de los Estados Unidos en Matamoros envió una alerta de viaje para el estado fronterizo de Tamaulipas advirtiendo sobre el uso de minas terrestres y otros artefactos explosivos por parte de los cárteles de la droga en ciudades fronterizas clave.
President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, the first bill he has approved since returning to office, into law at the White House on Wednesday.
A court in East Texas sentenced a four-time deported illegal alien to life in prison without the possibility of parole after he pleaded guilty to the murders of five Honduran migrants near Cleveland, Texas, in April 2023. The Mexican national pleaded guilty to Capital Murder in exchange for the sentence.
In the Del Rio Border Patrol Sector, once one of the busiest regions for illegal border crossings in Texas, migrant apprehensions have dropped by nearly 40% in the first full week of the Trump presidency. The drop has been noted across the southwest border as enhanced immigration operations promised by the Trump campaign during the election season begin to take shape.
A report from ABC7 in Chicago reported that a magistrate judge ordered the release of a Venezuelan man who was arrested in a targeted enforcement operation over the weekend.
The group of four suspected cartel members who fired at U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas this week was able to avoid capture after a tense standoff. Mexican authorities left the area, allowing the gunmen to walk away. Mexican authorities have since begun to deny the shooting in an attempt to minimize the violence in the region.
Las autoridades de México descubrieron un pequeño campamento de narcotraficantes en una isla desde donde presuntos miembros de Los Zetas dispararon contra agentes estadounidenses. El descubrimiento se produjo apenas un día después del tiroteo inicial, cuando las fuerzas de la policía estatal mexicana pudieron llegar a la isla y encontrar el campamento.
Authorities in Mexico discovered a small narco-camp on an island from where Los Zetas fired on U.S. agents. The discovery came when Mexican state police forces raided the island one day after the initial shooting.
Tras intentar ocultar información al respecto, el gobierno de Tamaulipas se vio obligado a emitir una serie de advertencias sobre el uso generalizado de minas terrestres y artefactos explosivos de cárteles en la parte norte del estado. El reporte viene luego de que Breitbart Texas publicara información detallada del caso a pesar de los intentos de ocultar información al respecto.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Tuesday that all illegal aliens are criminals because they illegally entered the United States.
Mexico’s Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero tried to discredit reports of a cartel shootout on the Texas border but got the dates wrong.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem joined Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and officers on the streets of New York City. The newly sworn DHS secretary said she was in New York to get the “dirtbags off the streets.”
Several Border Patrol agents conducting surveillance and enforcement activities in Texas came under fire from suspected Mexican drug cartel operatives early Monday afternoon.
After trying to hide information, the government of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas was forced to issue a series of warnings about the widespread use of cartel land mines and explosive devices in the northern part of the state. The warnings followed initial reporting by Breitbart Texas of a government vehicle striking a makeshift landmine near the state’s border with the U.S.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum claimed her government had been seamlessly working with U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s administration to receive thousands of deported migrants. The comments come just one day after President Trump threatened to impose punitive tariffs on Colombia after President Gustavo Petro refused to accept deportation flights. The Colombian president quickly folded under the threats.
State and federal law enforcement agencies teamed up on Sunday to carry out targeted immigration enforcement operations in cities across the state. A federal official characterized the actions as in the interest of public safety and national security.
Authorities in the Mexican border state of Chihuahua have confirmed the discovery of at least 71 bodies in 46 mass graves in a rural area a short distance south of the border with New Mexico. Cartel gunmen were reportedly using the region to dispose of their victims, who remain mostly unidentified.
Las autoridades del estado fronterizo de Chihuahua confirmaron el descubrimiento de al menos 71 cadáveres en 46 narco-fosas en una zona rural a poca distancia de la frontera con Nuevo México. Según informes, la región estaba siendo utilizada por pistoleros de los cárteles para deshacerse de sus víctimas, que en su mayoría permanecen sin identificar.
“United in service and in strength,” is the message from the El Paso Sector chief as his agents team up with Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and the Department of Defense to increase security along the border.
President Donald Trump smacked Colombia with an emergency 25 percent tariff and other sanctions after the nation refused two repatriation flights. Colombia reversed its pledge to accept deportation flights from the United States.
A surprise early morning immigration raid on a makeshift nightclub in the Denver Metro area resulted in the arrest of approximately 50 migrants in an illegal status, including some with connections to the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. Multiple federal agencies participating in the raid focused on criminal activity at the location.
According to a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol is applying a legal process known as Expedited Removal on a broad scale along the southwest border. The agency is now returning migrants to Mexico soon after apprehension. The source told Breitbart Texas, “’Catch and Release’ is over, it’s ‘Catch and Return now.’”
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is installing new wall panels along the Mexico-New Mexico border. The effort is designed to fill gaps in areas left wide open by the Biden administration.
A contingent of U.S. Marines landed in the San Diego Sector to assist Border Patrol agents. The Department of Defense ordered the Marine deployment in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order, signed on Monday.
The Department of Homeland Security issued a directive on Wednesday tapping other federal law enforcement agencies to assist in the apprehension of illegal aliens. The move is “essential” to carrying out President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations.
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations officers repatriated a 58-year-old Mexican national who is accused of raping a child in his home country. The illegal alien from Mexico had illegally entered the U.S. on four occasions.
Mexican government officials refused to comment about the apparent refusal to accept a U.S. military flight carrying migrants headed for Mexico.
The terrorist organization known as the Gulf Cartel blew up a Mexican government vehicle with a landmine in an area just south of the Texas border. The explosion comes as the criminal organization has been using explosives, landmines, and drones as part of an ongoing turf war.
La organización terrorista conocida como el Cártel del Golfo hizo estallar un vehículo del gobierno mexicano con una mina terrestre en una zona al sur de la frontera con Texas. La explosión se produce en un momento en que la organización criminal ha estado utilizando explosivos, minas terrestres y drones como parte de una guerra territorial con rivales.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott called on Congress to reimburse the State for more than $11.1 billion spent on border security. The governor said Texas taxpayers footed the bill for border security “due to the Biden Administration’s refusal to do its job for the last four years.”
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents rescued an American hiker after the hiker was strafed by “suspected cartel terrorists.” The shooting took place near the California-Mexico border close to Jacumba, California.
Mexican military forces began building a large-scale migrant detention center in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. The project is in preparation for the expected mass deportations announced by the administration of President Donald J. Trump. Since the start of
Las fuerzas militares mexicanas han comenzado a construir un centro de detención y atención de migrantes a gran escala en la ciudad fronteriza de Matamoros, mientras se preparan para las esperadas deportaciones masivas anunciadas por la administración del presidente estadounidense Donald J. Trump.
The Pentagon announced the Department of Defense will provide military airlift support to support the DHS in deporting detained illegal aliens. The United States Air Force will supply four aircraft to remove up to 5,000 aliens currently being detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
