The legislature of the Mexican state of Sinaloa halted a petition filed by the governor requesting the payment of a pension to a retired police chief who is a fugitive wanted by the United States Department of Justice.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at a Laredo, Texas, Port of Entry stopped smugglers from entering the United States with more than 1,100 pounds of methamphetamine. The agency determined the seizure had a street value of more than $10.1 million.
The governor of Sinaloa filed a letter to the state legislature in an attempt to help a fugitive police chief who is wanted by the U.S. government on drug trafficking conspiracy charges get his pension while he continues to live in her state.
Border Security and Immigration policies put in place by the Trump administration are impacting apprehensions in the nation’s busiest northern border sector. Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended just over 100 illegal aliens in May. This is down 96 percent from the Biden-era peak two years ago.
A Mexican border state governor sparked a new controversy over the weekend when she posted a video asking Mexico’s federal government to stop hiding behind claims of sovereignty and surrender various politicians wanted by the U.S. government on drug trafficking conspiracy charges.
Authorities in Mexico are keeping quiet about the discovery of a mass grave with four bodies, including two men from Chicago who were reported missing in May.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum fired back at U.S. President Donald J. Trump over his cartel-related statements at the G7 Summit. Trump claimed that Mexico was under the control of drug cartels. In her retort to Trump, Sheinbaum claimed he was misinformed and tried to defuse the situation, saying she did not have to enter into a controversy each time he made a comment.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics provided to Breitbart Texas show that total apprehensions at the southwest border in May were lower than the single-day rates at the peak of the Biden border crisis. As Border Patrol apprehensions remain under 10,000 for the month, CBP tells Breitbart the release of illegal aliens at the border to pursue asylum remains at zero for the 13th consecutive month.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials revealed that 735 criminal illegal aliens arrested in the Houston area last month accounted for more than 1,700 criminal convictions — with nearly 1,200 involving violent crimes or threats to public safety. The arrests included murderers, rapists, child predators, arsonists, drug traffickers, and members of MS‑13, Surenos 13, 18th Street, Tango Blast, and other brutal gangs.
A federal judge sentenced a Guatemalan illegal alien to 78 months in federal prison for firearms trafficking after an investigation revealed a scheme to move firearms from Alabama to Maryland. Lester Ramos-Perez, a 29-year-old from Guatemala who is illegally present in the United States, was part of a broader conspiracy to move the weapons, according to court records.
Despite being suspended from the San Antonio Police Department for allegedly serving a homeless man a sandwich containing dog feces, former officer Matthew Luckhurst has been named police chief of Benavides, Texas. City officials praised his “exemplary” recent record and said a thorough background check justified the controversial hire.
Drug cartels control Mexico, and the country’s President Claudia Sheinbaum is too afraid to do anything about it, said U.S. President Donald J. Trump during a speech at the G7 Summit. The U.S. president warned that his government would be stepping in to do what Mexico won’t.
First responders and passing motorists worked frantically to pull survivors from a plane crash that occurred on a busy Laredo highway on Tuesday evening. Video posted on social media shows the frantic efforts that saved five of the six passengers on board the aircraft engulfed in flames moments after crashing. One passenger perished in the accident.
Cartel violence continues to run wild in Mexico’s Caribbean resort areas, including the popular beach towns of Tulum, Playa Del Carmen and Cancun. Business leaders are demanding action from government officials, while Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum continues her public claims that crime has been decreasing under her watch.
U.S. federal law enforcement officers extradited a former Mexican Customs agent who is wanted in his home country on organized crime charges.
During a five-day targeted enforcement operation, Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents arrested 52 illegal aliens during immigration stops on major Arizona highways. Of those, 36 were found to be operating commercial vehicles with licenses issued by states with sanctuary policies.
Much of Central Texas and the entire state of Louisiana are bracing for life-threatening flash floods as heavy rains sweep through the South. The heavy rainfall began overnight Sunday and continues Monday, prompting the National Weather Service to warn residents in affected areas to stay away from low-lying areas.
Gunmen from Mexico’s terrorist group Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) ambushed a group of police officers, shooting ten of them in an attack where five of those officers died. While authorities have confirmed the attack, little has been done to capture the gunmen.
A Texas Department of Public Safety brush team working the border region in Starr County apprehended a group of ten illegal alien gotaways attempting to sneak into the U.S. interior. Among the group was a female Special Interest Alien (SIA) from Russia. The DPS troopers are working the border region under Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s (R) Operation Lone Star.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) special agents detected a suspicious target of interest near Desecheo Island, Puerto Rico, which was later identified as a 30-foot rustic vessel. The rustic boat contained 40 migrants headed for the island. The occupants were apprehended and removed from the disabled vessel.
A group of gunmen shot and killed a journalist in Mexico. The crime comes just days after a female journalist was kidnapped in the same state of Veracruz. The attack is even more alarming as the murdered journalist was under government protection after having received threats from law enforcement.
President Donald Trump announced Friday that the U.S. military killed Niño Guerrero, the leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, in what he described as a “swift and lethal kinetic strike” carried out by U.S. Southern Command at his direction.
In a shocking revelation that rocked the Texas 15th Congressional District race, Latin Grammy-winning singer turned Democrat candidate Bobby Pulido was caught on tape bragging about helping his longtime bandmate—a convicted child sex offender—get out of jail. While Pulido’s campaign attempts to dismiss the surfacing of his own words as a “desperate smear,” the audio confirms the candidate boasted about his efforts to bail out accordionist Frankie Caballero, a man later imprisoned for the sexual assault of an eight-year-old girl.
The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, is traveling across Texas to highlight progress in the battle against the New World Screwworm. Rollins visited the Zavala County Ranch where the first case of the flesh-eating parasite was discovered and highlighted the full recovery of case one after nine days of treatment.
El estado fronterizo de Coahuila mantiene en sus cargos a dos altos funcionarios que no pueden ingresar a Estados Unidos tras la revocación de sus visas en 2025. Ambos permanecen en sus puestos en un momento en que el gobierno estadounidense se ha centrado en revocar las visas de altos funcionarios en todo México, como una medida para presionar al país a actuar contra el crimen organizado.
The border state of Coahuila continues to hang on to two top officials who are unable to enter the United States after their visas were revoked in 2025. The two top officials remain in their posts at a time when the U.S. government has been focusing on revoking visas of top officials throughout Mexico as a way to force the country to act against organized crime.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers deported a 28-year-old Mexican national after an investigation showed the illegal alien from Mexico tried to fraudulently transfer her newborn baby to another individual because of a debt to smugglers. Maria Lidia Valle-Hernandez is now back home in Mexico.
The Department of Homeland Security is “ahead of schedule and… below budget on building the border wall” from California’s beaches to the Texas coast, says Rodney Scott, the nation’s top border patrol leader.
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a Cuban national after he entered the United States illegally near El Indio, Texas. Agents discovered the illegal alien was previously convicted of sex offenses related to children in Florida. After further investigation, agents discovered 44-year-old Lazaro Alberto Betancourt-Osorio also had an extensive immigration record as well.
Mexico’s former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador stands accused of crimes against humanity in a complaint filed by a rival political party. The complaint blames him as the root cause of the partnership between Mexico’s government and cartels, which led to more than 200,000 deaths and 150,000 forced disappearances, as well as several other crimes under his watch.
A group of protesters marched to Turning Point USA’s Women’s Leadership Summit (WLS) from a nearby park in San Antonio on Saturday. As the summit continued inside the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter Hotel, the crowd of more than 100 protesters chanted vile slogans against Erika Kirk and the attendees and twice violently attempted to breach police lines and enter the event.
Turning Point USA’s Women’s Leadership Summit (WLS) kicked off on Friday in the Alamo City of San Antonio. More than 2,500 attendees are expected to attend the WLS over the weekend, which will focus on wellness, purpose, and faith.
A second case of the flesh‑eating New World screwworm has been confirmed in Texas, only miles from the Mexican border, prompting Canada to shut its border to Texas livestock and Governor Greg Abbott to declare a state of disaster over what he warns is an “imminent threat.”
A multi‑jurisdictional law‑enforcement surge in South Carolina has blown open an identity‑fraud ring that placed dozens of illegal immigrants in factory jobs. A raid on a factory led to 48 detentions and criminal charges against managers accused of helping keep the operation running.
Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers uncovered an alien smuggling scheme in the small border town of Eagle Pass that used a hotel room as a stash house to hide multiple illegal aliens. Acting on a tip, a search of the room led to the arrest of two suspected smugglers and four Honduran nationals illegally present in the United States, including a wanted fugitive.
Former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has come out of retirement by publishing a letter in which he defends his successor, Claudia Sheinbaum, and the cartel-connected politicians singled out by the U.S. government in recent days. In his letter, he calls for the return of the Donald Trump of his first term and claims that the allegations against the members of his MORENA party are all politically motivated and aimed at supporting opposition parties.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations aircrew discovered an overcrowded boat loaded with approximately 240 migrants near the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. CBP officials say the boat was taking on water and in danger of sinking prior to a rescue operation.
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum was quick to rush to the defense of two more governors from her party, MORENA, who sparked a new controversy after a series of reports revealed that they were the target of cartel investigations by the U.S. government and that they had their visas revoked. Both Mexican governors denied the reports.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed the detection of New World Screwworm larvae in a calf less than 50 miles inland from the Texas-Mexico border. The flesh-eating screwworm maggots were found in the umbilical area of a 3-week-old calf in Zavala County, Texas.
WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders on Wednesday to bolster customs enforcement and bring more accountability to the federal workforce.
