
Mexico’s drug war was completely rocked in February 2014 after news broke of the arrest of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, the notorious long-time head of the Sinaloa cartel and arguably the most wanted man in the Western Hemisphere. But despite the U.S. government’s deep desire to prosecute and incarcerate Guzmán in the United States, Mexico’s attorney general announced the kingpin would not be extradited.
by Sylvia Longmire30 Jan 2015, 7:05 AM PST0

Three people have died and more than 50 are injured following a gas explosion outside of a children’s hospital in a Mexico City suburb.
by Ildefonso Ortiz29 Jan 2015, 9:32 AM PST0

Convicted child sex offender, drug trafficker and prior deportee Eloy Chavez-Loviano was arrested near Calexico, California on Monday when Border Patrol agents caught Chavez attempting to cross back into the United States from Mexico.
by Michelle Moons28 Jan 2015, 6:00 AM PST0

Illegal immigrants are getting a free pass on identity theft and perjury felonies they committed in the past due to specific written instructions from the chief of the Investigative Division of California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) that essentially directs law enforcement to turn a blind eye when they discover that illegal immigrants have been using illegally obtained IDs.
by Adelle Nazarian27 Jan 2015, 4:30 AM PST0

Former president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, offered his own reason why strengthening the border to stanch the flow of illegal immigrants from Mexico is wrong: illegal immigrants will stay in the U.S. rather than return home to Mexico, because they fear they won’t be able to return to the U.S.
by William Bigelow26 Jan 2015, 6:01 PM PST0

Savvy drug smugglers, seeking innovative methods to evade federal authorities at the border, are using heavy-duty magnets to affix illegal substances to the undercarriage of “trusted traveler’s” vehicles in Mexico, reportedly targeting the drivers without their knowledge.
by Michelle Moons24 Jan 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

Early this week, Mexican authorities took possession of an unmanned aerial vehicle that crash-landed on the Mexican side of the U.S. border near San Ysidro, California. The drone was reportedly carrying crystal meth and was used to smuggle the drugs into the U.S.
by Warner Todd Huston23 Jan 2015, 5:49 AM PST0

U.S. Border Patrol agents tracked five suspected illegal alien smugglers seen carrying large packages on their backs while crossing the International Boundary from Mexico into the United States near Calexico, California on Tuesday night.
by Michelle Moons23 Jan 2015, 4:30 AM PST0

Mexican research group the Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice has released its annual study of the world’s most dangerous cities, and Latin America has once again topped the list, with 43 of the 50 located in the region, and 19 of them located in Brazil alone.
by Frances Martel22 Jan 2015, 10:40 AM PST0

Mexican drug smugglers are using a more advanced way to transport their product into the United States: drones. Tijuana police said that a drone that crashed into a supermarket parking lot Tuesday night near the San Ysidro crossing was chock-full of illicit methamphetamine.
by William Bigelow22 Jan 2015, 4:53 AM PST0

According to a study at the Migration Policy Institute, three million of the USA’s 11.4 million Illegal immigrants live in California, sixty percent of whom live in Los Angeles County and nearby surrounding counties.
by Adelle Nazarian17 Jan 2015, 11:49 AM PST0

Mexican authorities are looking into 20 state officials who are said to have tortured three woman who were detained after the Mexican army killed 22 cartel gunmen in the rural town of Tlataya.
by Ildefonso Ortiz16 Jan 2015, 7:32 AM PST0

Mexican citizens living in the United States can retrieve their birth certificates much more easily now, thanks to the Mexican government’s decision to offer the certificates at 50 Mexican consulates throughout the United States, rather than offering them only in Mexico at government offices.
by William Bigelow15 Jan 2015, 9:56 AM PST0

In an effort to make it easier for illegal immigrants to benefit from the Obama administration’s executive amnesty, the Mexican government started issuing birth certificates at their consulates in the United States Thursday, according to a new report.
by Caroline May15 Jan 2015, 9:01 AM PST0

Mexican authorities are looking into a shootout in a rural town in the Mexican state of Michoacán that killed five members of a self-defense group.
by Ildefonso Ortiz14 Jan 2015, 7:07 AM PST0

France has identified 751 Zones Urbaines Sensibles (ZUS – Sensitive Urban Zones). These are sometimes informally called “no-go zones,” because it’s claimed that they’re almost entire Muslim, self-governing with Sharia law, and where even the police never go.
by John J. Xenakis13 Jan 2015, 1:48 PM PST0

As his last official act in office, former head of Arizona’s Department of Education, John Huppenthal, released a letter saying, “Public schools in Tucson, Arizona, illegally promote ethnic solidarity and the overthrow of the U.S. government by teaching Mexican history, Rage Against the Machine lyrics, and an explanation of hip hop by rapper KRS-One.”
by AWR Hawkins10 Jan 2015, 12:22 PM PST0

A Democrat Texas Congressman wrote a letter to U.S. Vice President Joe Bidden asking him to focus on the worsening security situation in Mexico which “has ripped apart our way of life on the U.S. Mexico Border.”
by Ildefonso Ortiz7 Jan 2015, 11:00 AM PST0

Two shootouts in the Mexican state of Michoacán have left 9 dead and led to the arrest of 44 suspects.
by Ildefonso Ortiz7 Jan 2015, 8:55 AM PST0

On Tuesday, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto hailed President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty as an “act of justice” and vowed that the Mexican government would help illegal immigrants from Mexico obtain documents like birth certificates without having to travel to
by Tony Lee6 Jan 2015, 2:12 PM PST0

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — The ever worsening security situation in Mexico has led to a new mode of transportation for Mexican tourists that includes traveling in a convoy with police escorts at speeds of 100 miles an hour or more — all in an effort to avoid getting carjacked by drug cartels on their journey to the U.S. border.
by Ildefonso Ortiz6 Jan 2015, 9:33 AM PST0

MCALLEN, Texas — A video released by the Mexican government in an effort to inspire goodwill for 2015 had the opposite effect drawing much criticism for making light of the many tragedies that the nation faced — including the kidnapping and murder by police and cartel hitmen of 43 education students.
by Ildefonso Ortiz3 Jan 2015, 8:48 AM PST0

In 2014, for the first time ever, U.S. Border Patrol records show that more non-Mexicans than Mexicans were apprehended at the border. Additional noteworthy information in the Border Patrol reports from this past year includes how, despite the fact that the news about unaccompanied children dominated the summer news cycle, adults were actually the vast majority of the illegal immigration problem.
by Sarah Rumpf2 Jan 2015, 7:30 AM PST0

MCALLEN, Texas — Mexican authorities have confirmed the capture of one of the top lieutenants from the Sinaloa Cartel.
by Ildefonso Ortiz31 Dec 2014, 10:15 AM PST0

National Border Patrol Council Vice President Shawn Moran blasted Mexico for its “double standard” on border enforcement and argued that Mexico’s southern border is “probably a little more intimidating than our border is” on Tuesday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto”
by Ian Hanchett30 Dec 2014, 1:51 PM PST0