Photos taken at the Texas Capitol on Saturday show protestors vandalizing the historical building and State grounds. The incidences occurred as George Floyd protesters turned violent in the capital city.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a “State of Disaster” in the wake of violent George Floyd protests happening across the state. The move authorizes federal agents to act as Texas peace officers.
Protest observers in Dallas saw multiple piles of bricks in areas where there is no reported construction. One of those locations is said to be near the Dallas County Courthouse. The Dallas Chief of Police reported nearly being hit by a thrown brick during a protest.
Armed Texans placed themselves at the Alamo Cenotaph Saturday afternoon in advance of George Floyd protests in San Antonio, Texas. Protesters defaced the monument early Friday with downward-facing arrows placed next to the statements “white supremacy,” “profit over People” and
A video of the George Floyd protest in Dallas appears to show a man being beaten nearly to death by the crowd. The victim reportedly tried to defend his shop with a large sword, a report states.
Police and protesters teamed up to tackle an armed man who showed up across the street from a George Floyd protest in Lubbock, Texas. The man appeared to be brandishing a semi-automatic rifle in a threatening manner before he dropped the weapon on the sidewalk.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the activation of the state’s National Guards Saturday night in response to the protest violence across the state. The move comes after the governor deployed 1,500 Department of Public Safety troopers to the state’s largest cities earlier in the day.
Protesters at the Texas Capitol in Austin turned violent on Saturday, overturning one Department of Public Safety vehicle and vandalizing another. The protesters also destroyed property on the grounds of the state’s capitol building. During a protest that lasted several
A series of raids by Tamaulipas state police officers targeting the operations of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel led authorities to a clandestine garage used to make armored vehicles. In addition to the vehicles, authorities also seized almost 80 weapons that were being used by cartel operators in Tamaulipas as they continue a series of fierce turf wars despite the current coronavirus epidemic.
Health officials from the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas extended coronavirus emergency measures through July 15 as the region continues to see a spike in cases. The move comes in direct opposition to messages pushed by Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who is already calling for resuming normal activities — even as cases continue to spike.
A man wanted in Mexico for allegedly stabbing a woman to death illegally crossed into Texas.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two men who escaped from a federal prison system in Florence, Colorado, Wednesday. The men told Border Patrol agents they were illegal immigrants, apparently hoping to be deported under Coronavirus protection protocols.
Authorities in Texas arrested three men and one woman accused of kidnapping a man over a $500 debt owed to the Gulf Cartel.
A Mexican border state implemented southbound checkpoints at international ports of entry to enforce Coronavirus sanitation measures. Those wishing to enter who do not follow the protocols will be sent back to Texas.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a group of migrants locked inside a tractor-trailer rig at an interior immigration checkpoint on Highway 86. The human smuggler locked the 12 migrants in the trailer with no air circulation or means of escape.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested yet another previously convicted and deported child sex offender after he illegally re-entered the United States in Southern California. This is the second arrest in less than a week in this border sector.
In the past week, a video emerged on social media purportedly from the Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG). In the footage, three attorneys who represent Miguel Angel Trevino Morales aka “Z-40,” the former leader of Los Zetas, are accused of planning his release via bribes and other corrupt means.
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents continue to see an increase in human smuggling activity relating to commercial trucks. Over the Memorial Day weekend, agents assigned to interior immigration checkpoints rescued 23 migrants in two separate incidents who had been locked in the rear of commercial box trucks.
Despite assurances of having the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic under control, Mexico again broke records for deaths and new cases registered in a day.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested an armed human smuggler and a two-time deported child sex offender in Southern California over Memorial Day weekend in separate incidents.
Las autoridades mexicanas presuntamente han estado escoltando cargamentos de drogas desde zonas de desembarco clandestinas en playas rurales hasta bodegas y zonas de envío en el estado de Michoacán. Las escoltas presuntamente están siendo realizadas por la Guardia Nacional y la Marina de México para evitar que cárteles rivales roben los cargamentos de cocaína que llegan en lanchas rápidas desde Centro y Sudamérica.
Mexican authorities are apparently helping move drug loads from clandestine beach landings to distribution points in Michoacán. The alleged escorts are National Guardsmen and Marines intended to keep rival cartels at bay.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) helicopter aircrews facilitated the rescue of multiple migrants who became lost and dehydrated in the Arizona desert. The rescues on Thursday led to the hospitalization of one severely dehydrated woman and the rescue of several others in the Yuma Sector.
El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents rescued two migrants from almost drowning in California border canals near Calexico late last week. The migrants were attempting to illegally enter the United States when they got in trouble with the swift-moving water.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – Grupos de sicarios en vehículos blindados se enfrentaron en un fuerte tiroteo a solo millas de la frontera con Texas. Después del enfrentamiento las autoridades encontraron vehículos blindados incendiados y cuerpos.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – Convoys of cartel gunmen in armored vehicles clashed in a fierce shootout over the past weekend. In the aftermath, authorities found torched armored vehicles and bodies.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Michigan arrested a woman who allegedly crossed the Canadian border in a stolen vehicle. The officers found five pounds of gold and 30 grams of marijuana, they reported.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – A pesar de varias restricciones impuestas en ambos lados de la frontera, los cárteles de la droga en el norte de México continúan enfrentándose con sus rivales y con las fuerzas de seguridad en fuertes tiroteos de manera regular. Las estadísticas de delitos más recientes publicadas por el gobierno federal de México señalan que los niveles de violencia continúan aumentando a pesar de que el nuevo coronavirus (COVID-19 sigue esparciéndose por México.
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – Despite pandemic restrictions on both sides of the border, cartels in northern Mexico continue to clash with rivals and security forces on a regular basis. The most recent crime statistics released by Mexico’s federal government indicate violence is climbing despite Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown measures.
Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents arrested an armed 25-year-old human smuggler after finding two migrants locked inside the trunk of a sedan at an interior checkpoint in Southern California.
Despite assurances by officials, Mexico continues to see a steady increase in deaths from the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Health leaders are also seeing a daily escalation in confirmed cases.
Border security cameras captured the events as two men crossed the border from Mexico into Arizona and set two fires before fleeing back across the border. The men set the fires in the Cocopah Tribal Land in an area where only a vehicle barrier secures the border.
An alleged human smuggler attempted to run a Border Patrol vehicle off the road during a pursuit near the Arizona border with Mexico, officials stated. The pursuit came after border wall security contractors observed a breach in the wall west of San Luis, Arizona.
Un grupo de sicarios dejó doce cuerpos en la caja de una camioneta en el estado de Michoacán. El asesinato masivo sucede en un momento en que dos de los cárteles de drogas más violentos de México han estado librando una fuerte guerra territorial por el control de la producción de drogas y sus rutas de contrabando.
A group of cartel gunmen left twelve bodies in the bed of a pickup truck in the Mexican state of Michoacán. The mass murder comes at a time when two of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels waged a fierce turf war for control of drug production and smuggling routes in the western part of the country.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents arrested another armed human smuggler in South Texas near the Rio Grande border with Mexico.
A state health official in Mexico claims federal health officials are ignoring confirmed coronavirus cases that are asymptomatic and only counts cases where patients need medical attention. The claim is the latest accusation that Mexico’s government is hiding the true reach of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in that nation.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a previously deported sex offender after he illegally re-entered the United States in the mountains west of Nogales, Arizona. The Mexican illegal alien received a conviction from a Utah court in 2003 for sexual assault.
The climb in Coronavirus-related deaths in Mexico elevates the nation to the number 10 spot globally. Despite widespread allegations of under-counting cases and mislabeling causes of death, the country managed to bump Canada and the Netherlands in a matter of days.
Mexico’s top security official is celebrating a decrease of 50 murders in April compared to March, suggesting it marks a greater stem in violence.
