
LAREDO, Texas — Just days after Breitbart Texas revealed that Los Zetas cartel drug smugglers were running wild in this border city by using a popular border park to run their drugs, authorities have since stepped up their presence in the area. Though local and federal authorities had been made aware that drug runners were using the children’s park in broad daylight, they took no action until Breitbart Texas was the first media outlet to cover the issue.
by Ildefonso Ortiz27 Nov 2015, 6:13 AM PST0

Middle school children playing football and soccer in Laredo, Texas, and their parents are being subjected to gangs of cartel drug smugglers running through their practice fields with bails of marijuana on their backs. It is such a regular occurrence that one Laredo City Council member is speaking out for more enforcement and resources.
by Bob Price20 Nov 2015, 6:40 AM PST0

NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Violent clashes in this border city have led to nine deaths–one of those was a soldier and the eight others were hit-men with Los Zetas drug cartel. The shootouts took place not far from the Rio Grande and the Texas city of Laredo.
by Ildefonso Ortiz14 Oct 2015, 4:05 AM PST0

Mexican authorities continue to look into the kidnapping that led to a firefight that killed five Los Zetas cartel members and one Mexican soldier. A series of graphic photos obtained by Breitbart Texas shows the carnage that took place not far from the border with the United States in Nuevo Laredo, the sister city of Laredo, Texas.
by Ildefonso Ortiz13 Oct 2015, 6:26 AM PST0

Five cartel kidnappers and one Mexican soldier died during a fierce gun battle in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, just south from the Texas city of Laredo. The soldiers managed to rescue a woman that Los Zetas had apparently kidnapped. The shootout took place over the weekend when soldiers with the Mexican military set up an operation to rescue a kidnapping victim, information provided to Breitbart Texas by the Tamaulipas government revealed.
by Ildefonso Ortiz12 Oct 2015, 5:22 AM PST0

A self-confessed human smuggler told authorities that in the past they have arrested him but released him after he gave a false name and claimed to be underage.
by Ildefonso Ortiz7 Oct 2015, 7:09 AM PST0

A total of 18 members of Los Zetas drug smuggling cell that operated in Texas and moved drugs from Laredo to Dallas plead guilty to various charges in U.S. federal court and are awaiting sentencing.
by Ildefonso Ortiz25 Sep 2015, 7:47 AM PST0

A Texas border man who said he thought he was carrying bottles with steroids ended up getting arrested on drug trafficking charges. The liquid inside the bottles was not an anabolic substance. His car was allegedly carrying 27 bottles of liquid methamphetamines.
by Ildefonso Ortiz9 Sep 2015, 7:47 AM PST0

Republican Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush is preparing to visit this border city for a fundraising event and to talk with local officials about border security.
by Ildefonso Ortiz21 Aug 2015, 5:38 PM PST0

In the most open area of the Texas border, human smugglers are running wild in their efforts to circumvent U.S. Border Patrol Agents. Earlier this week, border patrol agents arrested 10 suspected human smugglers in connection with various conspiracies to smuggle more than 75 illegal aliens in total.
by Ildefonso Ortiz1 Aug 2015, 6:57 AM PST0

A Hispanic Texan who is a life-long Democrat and lives in the border town of Laredo came out to the airport to give Donald Trump a message. Draped in an American flag, he told Breitbart Texas he is ready for something different and would vote for Trump in the 2016 Texas Republican Primary.
by Michelle Moons24 Jul 2015, 6:23 AM PST0

Thursday from the U.S.-Mexico border near Laredo, TX, Republican presidential candidate and billionaire business mogul Donald Trump took on the media to discuss border security and immigration. Trump said, “The fact that Mexico is doing so well—it’s just doing beyond
by Pam Key23 Jul 2015, 1:41 PM PST0

Perry and Trump have been engaged in a weeks-long war of words. Trump has taken swipes at Perry and other Republican candidates on the issues of immigration and border security, and Perry has fired back that Trump doesn’t understand what he is talking about, and that he is unfit to be Commander-in-Chief after attacking Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) service record last weekend.
by Sarah Rumpf23 Jul 2015, 12:32 PM PST0

A Texas border woman with a long history of making terroristic threats is looking at spending up to 10 years in prison for threatening to blow up the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration building in Laredo.
by Ildefonso Ortiz6 Jun 2015, 9:01 AM PST0

In front of a room packed with more than 150 Border Patrol agents, the local chapter of the National Border Patrol Council honored Breitbart Texas and Managing Director Brandon Darby for their work in exposing the realities of law enforcement along America’s southern border.
by Bob Price and Ildefonso Ortiz7 May 2015, 8:40 AM PST0