A migrant jumped out of a human smuggler’s vehicle and ran into passing traffic on a highway in South Texas. A passing motorist struck the migrant, killing him instantly.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he is pleased the Supreme Court issued a ruling allowing the agency to discontinue the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy. Mayorkas says the Migrant Protection Protocols requiring migrants to remain in Mexico as their asylum claims are processed has “endemic flaws, and it has unjustifiable human costs.”
The daughter of a Mexican journalist gunned down this week also died from injuries sustained during the same attack. The double murder comes at a time when Mexico is facing harsh international criticism over the ongoing attacks and murders of media workers.
La hija de un periodista mexicano que fue baleado esta semana también murió por las heridas sufridas durante el mismo ataque. El doble asesinato se produce en un momento en que México ha sido duramente criticado internacionalmente por los continuos ataques y asesinatos de trabajadores de los medios.
A migrant jumped out of a human smuggler’s vehicle and ran into passing traffic on a highway in South Texas. A passing motorist struck the migrant, killing him instantly.
Uvalde school district Police Chief Pete Arredondo resigned from his newly elected seat on the City Council. The chief is blamed by Texas Department of Public Safety officials for delays in responding to the Robb Elementary School Shooting on May 24.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended 1,772 migrants after they crossed the Rio Grande in a single day in Eagle Pass. The steady stream of migrants apprehended after crossing the river included one group numbering more than 500. On Thursday, the number of apprehensions exceeded any other single day total for the city according to the source.
A Texas woman is in jail after allegedly forcing migrants to remain in her home while she made them work to pay off debts owed to human smugglers. The incident came to light as one of the migrants attempted to escape from her home.
A Mexican soldier was killed in a training exercise in 2020, Mexico’s Human Rights Commission (CNDH) revealed.
A Texas man with a long criminal history will spend 24 years in prison for supplying Fentanyl-laced drugs to two victims who died from overdoses.
A Texas-based Cuban national who ran a trafficking operation with cartel ties will spend more than 12 years in prison for moving large quantities of drugs from Mexico and the Dominican Republic to the U.S.
Authorities in Mexico are looking into the work of a slain journalist as one of the main motives for his murder Wednesday morning in the border state of Tamaulipas.
For the second time in less than 24 hours, migrants are dead following a crash as smugglers attempted to avoid arrest. Texas Department of Public Safety officials report that four migrants died and two others are in critical condition when a Jeep driven by a suspected human smuggler crashed into a tractor-trailer while fleeing from law enforcement. Officials report the driver is in critical condition (brain dead).
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the Department of Public Safety to begin inspections of commercial trucks to prevent their utilization as human smuggling vehicles. The move follows the deaths of 53 migrants this week who were locked inside a tractor-trailer rig in San Antonio.
Two people are dead following a police pursuit that is reportedly connected to a failed human smuggling attempt. One reportedly died at the scene while the second died in a hospital.
China’s regime-run Global Times communist propaganda outlet condemned the discovery of at least 51 dead people attempting to illegally enter the United States on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, as a “stain on Washington’s human rights record” despite overwhelming evidence that the deaths were the product of extralegal human trafficking, not actions by the American government.
Officials in Brooks County, Texas, recovered the bodies and skeletal remains of 55 migrants so far this year attempting to circumvent an interior border checkpoint. Brooks County is located approximately 80 miles inland from the Texas border with Mexico.
Gunmen shot and killed a career journalist in the border state of Tamaulipas outside his home this week.
Mexico’s government issued approximately 3,000 travel permits to members of a migrant caravan that arrived over the weekend in Chiapas. Rather than trying to stop the group, authorities issued permits and allowed them to continue north in a fragmented manner.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — More than 250 migrants in separate groups were witnessed crossing into the city in the span of an hour Monday night.
HOUSTON, Texas — A Texas district court judge in Houston issued a verbal order allowing abortions to resume in some clinics across the state. The judge will issue a written order later on Tuesday.
Una violenta guerra territorial ha provocado varios tiroteos y ataques de cárteles en las partes sur y central de un estado fronterizo mexicano. La violencia ha dado lugar a varios ataques contra la policía y los fiscales mientras los cárteles luchan por el control.
A violent turf war has led to shootouts and cartel attacks in the southern and central parts of a Mexican border state.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol officials report that two migrants died over the weekend while attempting to enter the U.S. illegally. Agents also apprehended nearly 3,000 migrants while more than 1,000 more avoided apprehension.
A federal judge sentenced a man and woman to prison for their roles in the kidnapping and torturing of a 16-year-old male who allegedly stole a drug load in Laredo, Texas. The kidnappers tried to get the teen’s family to pay for the stolen drugs.
Police near San Antonio report that 46 migrants are dead and at least 16 others were transported to local hospitals after being locked inside a tractor-trailer. A worder found the tractor-trailer on the southwest side of San Antonio on a back road near Interstate 35.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — Breitbart Texas observed members of the Texas National Guard launching Zodiac river boats onto the Rio Grande in support of Operation Lone Star. The soldiers on the boats conduct reconnaissance and interdiction missions along the river.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a migrant with a severe leg injury in southeastern Arizona. This is one of a record number of migrant rescues carried out by Border Patrol agents along the entire southwest border with Mexico.
Cartel gunmen ambushed a police squad in a Mexican border state, killing six and injuring four. The attack took place a few miles south of the Texas border near Nuevo Laredo, a city under the control of the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas.
El Ejército de México envió un escuadrón de 200 soldados a la ciudad fronteriza de Matamoros, una región con una larga historia de estar controlada por el Cartel del Golfo.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — In one large group, more than 300 migrants crossed the Rio Grande Sunday as temperatures exceeded the 100-degree Fahrenheit mark. As Border Patrol and Texas Highway Patrol Troopers managed nearby traffic, many migrants pleaded for water.
A police officer from El Paso will spend two years in prison for her role in helping her stepfather run a cocaine distribution operation out of his house.
Customs and Border Protection officers in Southern California seized more than 50 pounds of blue fentanyl pills. Officers found the deadly drugs in the gas tank of a Ford vehicle.
Big Bend Sector Border Patrol agents and CBP aircrews teamed up to apprehend multiple camo-wearing migrant groups attempting to sneak into the U.S. interior.
A Mexican legislator openly challenged a federal judge who issued an injunction to keep the congress of a border state from meeting. The move came after the judge reportedly tried to prosecute various politicians for meeting and voting on legislative measures.
Two of the primary providers in Texas ceased performing abortions on Friday after the Attorney General warned they could be prosecuted immediately.
Friday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade will make abortions illegal in Texas in 30 days. The Texas Legislature passed a “trigger law” in 2021 that makes performing abortions in Texas a felony 30 days after the Supreme Court overrules Roe v. Wade.
Mexico’s Army sent 200 soldiers to the border city of Matamoros this week, an area with a history of being controlled by the Gulf Cartel.
Mexican police clashed with gunmen in a deadly shootout where 12 criminals and officers died responding to a kidnapping call. Authorities managed to rescue two handcuffed victims.
Border surveillance camera operators in Arizona captured video showing a group of migrants illegally crossing the border. The migrants then pile into a vehicle and drive away.
A Mexican border state prosecutor faces drug trafficking charges after U.S. authorities reportedly found more than 66 pounds of meth in his vehicle when he tried to drive into California.
