First responders in Brooks County, Texas, attempted to revive a Mexican migrant woman who apparently suffered a heart attack after being abandoned by cartel-connected human smugglers. The woman did not respond to CPR or other techniques and died at the scene.
Border Patrol agents apprehended more than four million migrants who illegally crossed the southwest border with Mexico during the past 10 fiscal years. If these migrants were placed into a single city, it would be larger than Los Angeles by population.
MONTERREY, Nuevo León — El arresto de más de 150 operadores del cártel de Los Zetas (Cartel del Noreste) en el estado fronterizo de Nuevo León en poco más de un año ha llevado a una nueva táctica utilizada por miembros de dicho grupo que buscan culpar a las autoridades por los asesinatos que ellos mismos llevan a cabo.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon – The Cartel Del Noreste (CDN) faction of Los Zetas is increasingly blaming law enforcement for their murders amid the arrests of 150 area gunmen over the past year.
A Spokane Sector Border Patrol agent sustained multiple injuries and his K-9 partner died in a rollover crash early Sunday morning.
MONTERREY, Nuevo León – Las autoridades estatales en un estado fronterizo mexicano catearon una iglesia que se estaba utilizando para distribuir grandes cantidades de marihuana.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon – Authorities in a Mexican border state raided a church that was being used to distribute large quantities of marijuana.
While families across the U.S. celebrated Christmas Eve, Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents responded to an emergency beacon in the Arizona desert and rescued a migrant family. The three family members included an infant.
An alleged drug smuggler connected to the Gulf Cartel rammed a U.S. Border Patrol agent’s marked patrol vehicle with his pickup truck as he attempted to avoid arrest. The incident occurred near the Texas border with Mexico.
Mexican federal authorities arrested a local police chief in the border state of Chihuahua in connection with a cartel attack that killed nine U.S. citizens. The murdered women and children were part of a Mormon family residing in Mexico.
Former Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump Sebastian Gorka and Breitbart Border and Cartel Chronicles Director Brandon Darby discussed the designation of Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTO). While acknowledging that many on the right have differing opinions on how to go about FTO designations, both Gorka and Darby agreed the fact that this issue is being talked about is historic.
EDINBURG, Texas – Authorities arrested two men in connection with the Christmas Day kidnapping of a woman at an international port of entry parking lot in Texas.
Un miembro de la recién creada Guardia Nacional de México está siendo investigado luego de que las autoridades mexicanas lo atraparon dejando un cuerpo quemado en Sinaloa. A parte de ser quemada, la víctima también había sido degollada.
A member of Mexico’s newly formed National Guard (GN) is under investigation after authorities reportedly caught him disposing of a burned body in Sinaloa. The victim’s throat was also slit.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations teamed up with U.S. Border Patrol agents and the Salvation Army to bring Santa Claus and gifts to children throughout the Rio Grande Valley.
Border Patrol agents in Texas and Arizona continue to apprehend previously deported child sex offenders after they illegally re-enter the U.S.
Mexican authorities are downplaying the murder of an American citizen who was killed as he waited at an international port of entry. Since the incident, officials tried to present him as a Mexican national, however, Breitbart Texas confirmed the victim held a U.S. passport.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — Un grupo de sicarios disparó y mató a un oficial de policía el día de Nochebuena en la ciudad fronteriza de Piedras Negras. El asesinato se produce en un momento en que las tensiones en la región se dispararon después de que hace un mes, un grupo de 150 sicarios irrumpió en una comunidad rural cercana desatando una serie de tiroteos que causaron 23 muertes el mes pasado.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – A group of gunmen shot and killed a local police officer on Christmas Eve. The murder comes as tensions in the region are spiking after a group of 150 shooters stormed a nearby rural community–setting of a series of skirmishes that led to 23 deaths.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents teamed up with local charities to donate hundreds of Christmas gifts to local children.
A U.S. citizen in line to cross into Texas at an international port of entry died during a failed carjacking attempt in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. The fatal incident follows a series of recent armed robberies and carjackings in the Mexican border city’s downtown district.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents discovered a drug-smuggling tunnel that extended from a house in Nogales, Arizona, to a wastewater pipeline leading to Mexico. The discovery led to the seizure of more than 200 pounds of drugs.
An Air and Marine Operations crew located a boat off the coast of California and helped disrupt a human smuggling operation. They teamed up with Border Patrol agents and local law enforcement to seize the boat and arrest the smuggler with his human cargo.
Mexico’s Ambassador to Argentina allegedly tried to steal shirts from an airport store as he was traveling home to face a separate petty theft accusation. In the aftermath of the two cases, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Ministry said the diplomat’s resignation was officially due to medical reasons.
A group organized by Border Patrol agents recently collected and distributed Christmas and holiday gifts for the children of fallen agents. This marks the organization’s fifth year of giving.
Good Samaritans inside a Reynosa, Tamaulipas, bank rescued a kidnapping victim as his abductors were forcing him to empty his accounts. The border city customers rushed the suspect, helping the victim escape until the police arrived.
Mexican authorities rescued eight migrants from Sri Lanka and Nepal after cartel-connected human smugglers kidnapped them. The smugglers held the migrants against their will and demanded a series of ransoms to release them.
A pair of U.S. citizen human smugglers led San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents on high-speed pursuits in separate incidents. The pursuits led to their arrests and those of 15 migrants.
MONTERREY, Nuevo León – Un presunto líder del narcotráfico que es buscado por una ejecución en Texas, presuntamente ordenó el asesinato de dos expolicías en uno de los suburbios más lujosos del estado fronterizo mexicano de Nuevo León. El asesinato parece estar relacionado con la sospecha de que los dos expolicías que supuestamente habían estado trabajando para el crimen organizado, se habían convertido en soplones para otros grupos.
MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon – A cartel boss wanted on federal homicide charges in Texas is now suspected of ordering hits on two former police officers in one of the wealthiest cities in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon. The deaths are tied to a theory that the cops switched from working with a cartel to become informants.
U.S. Border Patrol agents and Customs and Border Protection officers arrested multiple child sex offenders after they entered the United States in recent days.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Una jueza local enfrenta una revisión formal por sus decisiones de liberar a sicarios del cartel bajo razones sospechosas. Uno de los liberados fue un destacado pistolero que participó en la invasión a gran escala del mes pasado en Coahuila, que provocó 23 muertes.
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – A local judge faces a formal review of her decisions to release cartel members for suspicious reasons. One of those freed was a leading gunman who took part in last month’s large-scale invasion of Coahuila, which led to 23 deaths.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a Honduran man and his seven-year-old son after cartel-connected human smugglers abandoned them on a ranch in one of Texas’s deadliest counties for migrants.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended nine migrants who fled into the brush following the end of a police pursuit near Bracketteville, Texas. The human smuggler managed to avoid apprehension.
A fresh travel advisory issued by the U.S. State Department shortly before the Christmas holiday travel period continues to label five Mexican states in the same danger category as war-torn Middle Eastern countries. Such states have a Level 4 designation, where U.S. travelers are asked not to visit. State Department officials continue to avoid using the word “cartel” to describe the main organizations operating in those parts of the nation.
As rival cartels continue to fight for control of lucrative drug and human smuggling routes into Texas, a series of video clips circulated by gunmen provide glimpses into escalating violence as criminal organizations use armored vehicles and high powered weapons in Mexican border city streets.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents discovered a large group of migrants locked in the cargo area of a tractor-trailer during an inspection at an immigration checkpoint. Agents said the migrants’ shirts were marked in a fashion similar to “cargo and commodities.”
The U.S. counterterrorism apparatus is striking back against designating some Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) with the help of Republican senators. A congressional proposal sidelines U.S. military assets and still allows cartel kingpins to fly commercial as they seek turf on other continents. The bill is a juiced version of the status quo—not a overdue shift in strategy and tactics.
A federal court in New York sentenced a three-time deported Mexican national to 46 months in prison following his second conviction for felony re-entry after removal. The man, who has an extensive history of drunken driving, also received a 36-month supervised release and deportation order following his November plea agreement.
