Border / Cartel Chronicles

President-Elect Donald Trump’s Border Czar, Tom Homan, visited Texas Army National Guard soldiers/airmen and Texas Highway Patrol troopers at a recently constructed state military base on the banks of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass. Accompanied by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Homan spoke to the attendees ahead of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. During the Tuesday visit, Homan and Texas Abbott served food to the troops after brief remarks.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum fired a warning at incoming U.S. President-elect Donald Trump over his threats to impose tariffs because of the ongoing immigration and drug trafficking issue.

An Indian migrant testified that he smuggled more than 500 other India nationals across the U.S.-Canada border during a four-year period. Despite making more than $400,000 in his role in the smuggling operation, the man will be allowed to remain and work in the U.S. in exchange for his testimony.

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers found a two-year-old Salvadoran migrant girl who they say traveled by herself to the U.S. border with Mexico in search of her parents. The little girl crossed the border from Mexico into Texas with a large group of migrants, including 60 unaccompanied migrant children.

Authorities in Mexico have confirmed two separate attacks that killed seven victims and injured over a dozen others in the southern state of Tabasco. One of the attacks took place inside a packed bar, while a second at a wedding.

A Mexican judge with a history of questionable rulings ordered the release of one of the leaders of the Gulf Cartel. The alleged crime boss is fighting a slew of charges and extradition to the U.S. However, thanks to the ruling, he was granted his release on bond. This particular cartel boss has a history of suspicious releases where authorities have dismissed his prior cases on technicalities. He has a pending criminal indictment in the U.S. filed by the Department of Justice.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order this week for the Department of Public Safety to “target and arrest any criminals executing” Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence operations. The governor cited a CCP “Operation Fox Hunt” aimed at the forcible return of dissidents to China. The governor also issued orders to divest the state from Chinese assets and protect infrastructure.

The man responsible for establishing a reign of terror in part of Mexico’s northern border region pleaded guilty to several drug trafficking and money laundering charges in a U.S. federal court. He is facing a possible life term in prison. That cartel boss is not only responsible for ordering hundreds of forced disappearances and establishing clandestine gravesites in northern Mexico but his gunmen are directly linked to a brazen attack on the U.S. Consulate building in Nuevo Laredo.

Texas General Land Office (GLO) Commissioner Dawn Buckingham offered to lease the incoming Trump administration a 1,400-acre tract of land near the state’s border with Mexico. The land would be used to build a facility for the processing, detention, and deportation of violent criminal migrants.

Cartel gunmen continue carrying out targeted killings, engaging in shootouts, and setting up highway blockades with complete impunity. At the same time, government officials in the Mexican states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon try to deny the violence, claiming it is all mass hysteria.

Despite the resurgence of a few migrant caravans that have formed in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, a post-election rush to the border after a Trump victory many expected would occur has yet to materialize.

Two European countries reportedly warned their citizens about possible cartel terror attacks in Mexico. The warnings come as Mexico has seen a dramatic rise in terror-style attacks, such as random shootings at bars and the use of car bombs and other explosives by cartels.

Authorities in Spain announced the recent arrest of a Sinaloa Cartel cell that they had linked to drug trafficking, ransom kidnapping, and murders in that country. As part of the raids tied to the cell, Spanish authorities also dismantled a lab that cartel members used to remove synthetic drugs that had been infused into clothing to smuggle them into the country.

President-elect Donald J. Trump is sending a clear message that military troops will be part of his border security plan and play a role in mass deportation operations promised during his campaign. On Monday, Trump confirmed this on his Truth Social platform by re-truthing a post by Tom Fitton, president of the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, indicating Trump would use the military to “reverse the Biden invasion through a mass deportation program.” Trump responded on Truth Social with a one-word answer — “TRUE!!!”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott continues to apply Operation Lone Star resources to the state’s border with Mexico in anticipation of a final Biden-era mass migration event. On the other hand, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker vowed this week to “do everything I can to protect our undocumented immigrants.”

A 28-year-old Houston man has been indicted for allegedly attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Anas Said was arrested by FBI agents on November 8 in the parking lot of his residence, according to court documents reviewed by Breitbart Texas.

Thousands of migrants continue to enter Mexico through its southern border as they work to get travel permits to make their journey to the U.S. border in hopes of getting asylum.

Mexico’s Foreign Relations Ministry (SRE) sent a diplomatic complaint, and the country’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, harshly criticized a series of comments by U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar. The ambassador claimed that Mexico’s security strategy, “Hugs Not Bullets,” had failed.

A former Dallas salon owner who was jailed for re-opening her salon during COVID-19 will now be the next state representative for Texas House District 62. Shelley Luther won the election with nearly 80 percent of the vote.

The recent discovery of the largest drug lab in Canada’s history highlights the ongoing expansion and sophistication of Canadian drug gangs. The gangs have developed international connections with Mexican drug cartels and U.S. criminal organizations.

A police officer from the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas faces a murder charge for his role in the killing of an underage teenager he allegedly mistook for a gunman. He and five other officers are also charged with planting evidence to cover up the incident.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized approximately 11,000 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition being smuggled into the United States from Mexico.

A group of gunmen stormed yet another bar in central Mexico, killing five victims and injuring seven others. The shooting is the second of its kind in as many days where gunmen have fired indiscriminately at bar patrons in Mexico.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered the recall of nearly 80,000 pounds of butter produced in Texas for Costco. The agency ordered the recall because the product packaging contained no “Contains Milk” allergy statement.

A group of gunmen stormed a bar, shooting indiscriminately into the crowd, killing ten victims, and injuring eight others in the central Mexican state of Queretaro.

Border hawk Thomas Homan is getting a prize border security job in the new administration, incoming President Donald Trump said in a message via his Truth Social media network.

Authorities in Mexico are on the hunt for at least one kidnaping suspect after two gunmen rescued him and another man during a prisoner transfer in central Mexico.

Newsweek falsely claimed that a migrant caravan moving through southern Mexico with the hopes of eventually reaching the U.S. border was turning back following President-Elect Donald Trump’s election. Contrary to the Newsweek report, the caravan is still moving through southern Mexico.

Zavala County Sheriff’s deputies led an operation within their county designed to target online child predators. On Thursday, the department announced the arrest of nine suspects arrested for a variety of charges related to child pornography and solicitation of a minor, all federal felony offenses.

In a report reviewed exclusively by Breitbart Texas, human intelligence developed by frontline Border Patrol intelligence officers reveals the possibility of a formal covert operation being conducted by the Maduro regime. The operation is designed to infiltrate the United States using released inmates and pairing them with Venezuelan intelligence operatives to “neutralize” human targets within the United States.

CBS News inaccurately reported that the Mexican Navy seized 3.6 tons of cocaine from a “narco sub.” The Government of Mexico reports the drugs were found on a twin-engine “Go Fast” type vessel.

Reports indicate that President-elect Donald J. Trump flipped a Texas border county that has voted Democrat in every presidential race since 1896. At 97 percent, the county is said to be the most Hispanic county in the nation.

Following a decisive victory by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and an expanded majority in the Texas House of Representatives, Republicans lived up to their pledge to “Keep Texas Texas.”

A new migrant caravan departed Mexico’s southern border in an attempt to reach the U.S. border before the arrival of a new Trump administration. Mexican immigration officials stood by as the caravan departed while police forces escorted them.

A group of Gulf Cartel gunmen set fire to a state police armored vehicle after a violent shootout just south of the Texas border. The gunmen outnumbered and outgunned a squad of police officers. The officers were forced to run away after military and federal police forces (National Guard) refused to answer their calls for help.

Un grupo de pistoleros del Cártel del Golfo prendió fuego a un vehículo blindado de la policía estatal después de un violento tiroteo al sur de la frontera con Texas, donde superaban en número y armamento a un escuadrón de estatales. Los oficiales se vieron obligados a huir después de que las fuerzas militares y de la Guardia Nacional se negaran a responder a sus llamadas de ayuda.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) told Breitbart Texas that his opponent, Colin Allred (D-TX), co-sponsored a bill that would mandate that boys be allowed to compete in girls’ sports. He said his opponent also voted against the “Protecting Girls’ and Women’s Sports Act.”