A Border Patrol agent patrolling the border on an ATV was hospitalized after being assaulted with a large rock. The attack occurred a few miles east of the San Ysidro Port of Entry in a known human smuggling area.
Houston police found a “small arsenal” of guns in a top-floor hotel room just hours before a scheduled New Year’s Eve celebration. The hotel is an open-atrium design that could allow a shooter to fire upon the celebrating crowd.
Migrants from countries like Eritrea, Cameroon, and Mexico have flooded the U.S. southern border in San Diego to such an extent in recent days that U.S. border officials have been unable to process them without long lines forming on the Tijuana side of the border.
State authorities in this border city shut down several businesses and hotels allegedly connected to a sex trafficking and forced prostitution investigation linked to the mayor’s husband. Officials say her husband is identified as part-owner of some brothels in Reynosa.
Attendees at the Valero Alamo Bowl booed the Stanford University Band during its halftime performance after the bandsmen mocked the border wall, Whataburger, and all things Texan. The performance came during the California university’s bowl game versus Texas Christian University (TCU). TCU responded by defeating the Stanford Cardinals.
Officials identified the U.S. citizen murdered while visiting Mexico as a tourist during the Christmas holiday as a city administrator from California. Gunmen killed the Californian in the Mexican coastal state of Guerrero. The state of Guerrero has become a hotspot for cartel violence in recent years.
President Donald Trump issued a proclamation designating January 2018 and National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
Working over Christmas holiday weekend proved perilous for Border Patrol agents as one agent was shot and others were fired upon.
Mexican Navy Infantrymen (La Marina) engaged five alleged cartel gunmen during a fierce firefight that involved hundreds of rounds fired. Local media reports indicate grenades were used and all five gunmen were killed. The battle occurred in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico.
Border Patrol agents arrested a previously deported child predator as he attempted to illegally re-enter the U.S. in southern Arizona. The agents found the man with a group of illegal aliens who illegally crossed the border near Gila Bend.
A Mexican police chief believed to be working with drug cartels by providing protection was arrested along with two officers.
A year-end study by Zillow, the real estate website, revealed that U.S. home values soared in 2017 reaching a record $31.8 trillion. Its list of the nation’s 35 largest markets included four Texas metropolitan areas that made impressive gains, notably Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston.
A new report says that Texas is the U.S. state hardest hit by the flu so far this season with widespread outbreaks.
Federal prosecutors say two Texas men will remain in custody for their alleged roles in the sex trafficking of a 13-year-old girl who, purportedly, was victimized by up to four different adult males.
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — The raging cartel violence spreading throughout the country has marked 2017 as the bloodiest year since 1997 when the government began documenting such murders. The official figures, however, pale in comparison to reality since they do not account for the number of victims “disappeared” by cartel gunmen–including those who were incinerated or buried in clandestine graves.
Autoridades Brasileñas han arrestado a uno de los principales líderes del Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación; el arresto se llevo acabo tras una petición de detención con fines de extradición por autoridades estadounidenses.
Brazilian law enforcement arrested one of the top leaders of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion at the request of U.S. authorities.
A high-profile Houston attorney’s date night ended when a woman allegedly refused to leave his home and destroyed two original Andy Warhol paintings in her wake.
Dollar General is angling to take a bite out of Walmart’s loyal-by-default customer base across rural America by opening a new distribution center in eastern Texas.
A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas revealed that the Texas manufacturing industry experienced large gains in December, ending the year by reaching its highest point in more than 11 years.
Local police officers in Colorado seized more than 200 pounds of marijuana and six pistols, all believed to belong to a Mexican cartel.
Federal authorities arrested a man from Mexico with an extensive criminal history, including attacking a Texas cop while in the country illegally. The capture occurred near the area where a U.S. Border Patrol agent was allegedly murdered and another agent was attacked in November.
A former Mexican journalist is fighting deportation after his claims for asylum were denied by an immigration judge and his appeals were also turned down. While the case has garnered much attention from international press freedom groups, found him unconvincing.
Federal authorities confirmed the shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent patrolling the waters of the Rio Grande. The shot came from the Mexican side of the river.
A Texas teacher is now facing charges after a father allegedly caught his teen son having car sex with her over Christmas break.
Taking college finals for the first time can prove challenging but when one first year Texas undergrad tweeted about nearly missing a recent exam, top university brass applauded the student for showing up at all, even though she admitted to cutting class for at least a month prior.
Gunmen decapitated a man, leaving the head in the corpse’s lap, next to a cartel banner in the beach resort area of Cancun. The message indicates an escalation in violence where various factions are now fighting for control of the shipping port and world-famous tourist area.
Authorities in Hidalgo County, Texas, are looking into the alleged murder of a newborn girl on Christmas weekend. The mother, who is in the country illegally, reportedly confessed to suffocating her.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — Autoridades en este estado fronterizo continúan investigando como uno de los carteles que opera en esta ciudad pudo utilizar un table dance como una base de operaciones desde donde se realizaron o planearon varias ejecuciones al igual que otros crímenes.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon — Authorities continue looking into how one of the cartels was able to use a strip club as a base of operations for planning and executions.
A San Antonio area homeowner responded to a Christmas decoration thief by displaying large images and video of his misdeeds on his front lawn.
Sofía, a medical assistant in Reynosa, a scruffy border city in northern Mexico, has a regular morning routine.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Autoridades de este estado fronterizo viajaron a algunos de los vecindarios mas pobres de esta ciudad y otras comunidades, no para arrestar a alguien sino para llevar regalos a cientos de niños de escasos recursos.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Authorities from this border state traveled to some of the poorest neighborhoods in the city and other neighboring communities to deliver hundreds of Christmas toys.
Texas marks another year where it leads the nation in total population growth, adding nearly 400,000 new residents, according to the latest figures by the U.S. Census Bureau.
HOUSTON, Texas — A grandmother stopped a would-be Christmas week jewelry robbery by shoving the perpetrator out the door of the store. The suspect attempted to shove his way through as the employees entered to prepare the Galleria-area shop.
A U.S. postal worker allegedly stripped naked and then shot and killed his supervisor. A short time later he reportedly killed the postmaster at a post office in Dublin, Ohio, on Saturday. The man reacted violently to news from the supervisor that he was being fired.
The Trump Administration is reportedly considering a policy change that will protect children being endangered by illegal immigrant parents and families. Administration officials believe parents who turn their children over to cartel-connected human smugglers put them in grave danger. Left-of-center media outlets decry the policy change being discussed as one that would “tear families apart.”
Border Patrol agents delivered a baby near the Texas border with Mexico shortly after the mother illegally entered the U.S.
A case being heard in a Mexican border state court exposed Mexico’s Tax Office (SAT) and ruling party for allegedly funneling millions in state funds into political campaigns. The movement of funds allegedly occurred during the 2016 election.
