The U.S. Department of the Treasury is taking a leading role in the ongoing war against terrorist drug cartels, said Secretary Scott Bessent. In a recent interview with Breitbart News, Bessent stated the Treasury Department is leveraging all the financial tools at their disposal to fight criminal organizations. “We are coming for them,” he stated.
President Trump paved the way for military action with his designation of Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. The designation led to the authorization of surveillance flights by the CIA over Mexico and the deployment of U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers off the Mexican coast.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 243 illegal aliens in the Denver metro area during a nine-day deportation operation that ended on Wednesday. Those detained include aliens from 17 different countries, and some have significant criminal records.
As Mexico attempts to appease the Trump administration and avoid a series of tariffs over “not doing enough” to eradicate drug cartels, a new scandal surfaced that ties the top political elite in Mexico with one of the country’s most violent drug cartels. That cartel was labeled this year by the U.S. government as a foreign terrorist organization.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks reported the continuing decline in the arrest of illegal aliens who cross the border between ports of entry. During the first 27 days of July, agents arrested just over 4,000 migrants.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials reported that officers and agents in the Houston area arrested more than 200 criminal alien child sex offenders in the past six months of the Trump administration. This represents a larger total than that of the entire previous fiscal year.
Mexican authorities continue pushing a PR campaign on both the state and federal levels aimed at painting an embellished image that Mexico is fighting against organized crime. While government officials are busy announcing large deployments of police and military forces, as well as highlighting the arrests of minor criminals and portraying suspicious seizures as trophies, in reality, cartel bosses continue to operate with relative impunity.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared on Sunday that Nicolas Maduro is “not the president of Venezuela.” Instead, Rubio says Maduro is the head of a narco-terrorist cartel that has “taken possession of the country.”
The U.S Drug Enforcement Administration called out the cartel led by Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, highlighting the recent terrorist designation by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and pointing to a $25 million reward for his capture on U.S. drug charges
A Glendale man with a history of lewd behavior was arrested after police received a report of a suspicious individual loitering in a California department store in Burbank, California. Police officers arrested 38-year-old Calese Carron Crowder after officers allegedly observed the man crouching behind a woman and sniffing her buttocks, a lewd act Crowder is suspected of committing in the past.
Officials in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas are advising tourists to travel only during daytime hours. The request comes at a time when drug cartels continue to openly roam the country’s highways, setting up their own clandestine checkpoints, extorting motorists, and kidnapping innocent civilians.
Cartel gunmen used a dump truck to conceal an attack on state police forces by moving the vehicle at a high rate of speed straight into an armored police truck with five officers inside. The crash killed two officers and injured three others.
Las autoridades del estado fronterizo de Tamaulipas piden a los turistas viajar solo durante el día. Esta solicitud se produce en un momento en que los cárteles de la droga siguen controlando abiertamente las carreteras del país, estableciendo sus propios retenes clandestinos, cometiendo asaltos, extorsionando a automovilistas y secuestrando a civiles inocentes.
Three illegal aliens from El Salvador were arrested by Houston Police Department investigators after they allegedly attempted to meet up with underage girls. The arrests are part of an ongoing sting operation targeting dating apps, officials stated.
Trump officials trumpeted, yet another record for the lowest number of migrants apprehended in a single day after illegally crossing the border between ports of entry. On July 20, Border Patrol agents encountered only 88 migrants — a new record low. This is down from the record of 112 set less than a month ago.
Miembros de un cartel mexicano utilizaron un camión de volteo para ocultar un ataque contra las fuerzas policiales estatales, moviéndolo a alta velocidad contra una camioneta blindada de la policía con cinco agentes a bordo. El choque causó la muerte de dos agentes y heridas a otros tres.
Michigan has joined four other states who have introduced legislation to ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from wearing masks, with the Wolverine state calling for jail time for violators.
Bibb County Sheriff Jody Wade says that arrests in the horrific Alabama child sex trafficking ring continue as investigators uncover more evidence. The sheriff said he believes the leader of the ring has ties to the Sureños gang.
The Trump administration is asking recently retired Border Patrol agents to “answer the call once more” and return to active service. The call from the administration followed several years of retirements as agents were frustrated with the Biden-era catch-and-release policies.
Las autoridades mexicanas han sabido dónde vive un temible jefe del cártel y no han hecho nada para arrestarlo. A pesar de la presión del gobierno estadounidense sobre México para enfrentar a los cárteles, este jefe ha podido vivir en una casa en el estado de Michoacán con su familia y no ha tenido que esconderse en las regiones montañosas como sus colegas de otras organizaciones.
Authorities in Mexico have known where a fearsome cartel boss lives and have not made any moves to arrest him. Despite the pressure from the U.S. government on Mexico to go after cartels, this cartel boss has been able to live in a home in the state of Michoacan with his family and has not needed to hide in the mountain regions like his colleagues in other organizations.
The Trump administration delivered on its promise to secure the U.S.-Mexico border and set new records for the lowest number of migrant encounters. The June Southwest Land Border Encounters Report from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows yet another decrease in migrant encounters, including the lowest number of encounters in a single day — 128 on June 28.
Four men in Alabama are in custody after they allegedly kidnapped and sexually abuse children in an underground bunker for more than a year. The men face charges, including rape, human trafficking, kidnapping, sodomy, and bestiality.
Los aranceles del 30% anunciados por la administración Trump para México por no hacer lo suficiente para detener a los cárteles de la droga muestran que las autoridades estadounidenses parecen estar viendo más allá de las mentiras de sus homólogos mexicanos, ya que varias figuras clave de los cárteles continúan operando con total impunidad.
The 30 percent tariffs announced by the Trump administration for Mexico over not doing enough to stop drug cartels show that U.S. officials appear to be seeing through the lies presented by their Mexican counterparts. Key cartel figures continue to operate with complete impunity throughout Mexico.
The Gulf Cartel has once again begun targeting innocent civilians for ransom kidnapping as they try to increase their revenues at a time when the smuggling operations have become more difficult due to the ongoing pressure from the U.S. government.
El Cártel del Golfo ha vuelto a secuestrar a civiles inocentes para pedir rescates, buscando aumentar sus ingresos en un momento en que las operaciones de contrabando se han vuelto más difíciles debido a la constante presión del gobierno estadounidense.
A home security camera captured the disturbing image of a woman being carried kicking and screaming back to a home in east Harris County, Texas, last week. Police say the woman, a Chinese national, had been kidnapped and held against her will by a Honduran illegal alien.
An illegal alien released by the Biden administration allegedly shot an off-duty Border Patrol agent in the face during an attempted robbery in New York City. Despite being shot twice, the agent managed to return fire, wounding the suspect as he fled on a moped.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials and the FBI teamed up to create a Homeland Security Task Force in Houston to combat the “emerging threats from transnational criminal organizations in Southeast Texas.” The announcement follows the arrest in June of nearly 1,400 criminal aliens in the Houston area.
The Gulf Cartel killed a Mexican activist just days after a judge removed his police protection that was previously granted after the same cartel had kidnapped him four times before and threatened to kill him. The Gulf Cartel is one of six Mexican organized crime groups designated by the Trump administration as foreign terrorist organizations.
Cartel gunmen used a dump truck to conceal an attack on state police forces by moving the vehicle at a high rate of speed straight into an armored police truck with five officers inside. The crash killed two officers and injured three others.
The Trump administration is reportedly offering former ICE agents “reinlistment” bonuses of up to $50,000 if they come back to the agency. Many ICE agents and officers left the organization during the chaos of the prior administration.
Federal authorities in California arrested an illegal alien from Mexico after she allegedly faked a kidnapping by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents or “bounty hunters” working for ICE. Prosecutors allege the woman carried out the scam to raise money on social media and discredit ICE and other federal law enforcement agents.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials announced the arrest of two illegal aliens who were convicted of impregnating young girls in Texas. DHS officials described the criminal aliens and other child sex predators recently arrested as the “worst of the worst.”
Mexican Senator Lilly Tellez (PAN-Sonora) blasted President Claudia Sheinbaum, demanding that she “stop telling lies.” The senator accused her country’s president of having a close association with several lawyers who represent drug cartels during a fiery speech to the Mexican Senate.
La senadora mexicana Lilly Téllez (PAN-Sonora) criticó duramente a la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum, exigiéndole que “deje de mentir”. Durante un incendiario discurso ante el Senado mexicano, la senadora acusó a la presidenta de su país de tener una estrecha relación
El Cártel del Golfo ha estado enviando grupos de pistoleros a Texas para robar vehículos de cuatro puertas e introducirlos de contrabando en México para reabastecer a su rama paramilitar. La actual ola delictiva provoca persecuciones frecuentes a alta velocidad y, en ocasiones, robos de vehículos a punta de pistola. El Cártel del Golfo es uno de los seis cárteles que la administración Trump ha catalogado como organizaciones terroristas extranjeras.
The Gulf Cartel continues to send teams of gunmen into Texas to steal four-door vehicles and smuggle them into Mexico to resupply their paramilitary wing. The ongoing crime wave leads to regular high-speed chases and, at times, vehicle carjackings at gunpoint. The Gulf Cartel is one of six cartels labelled as foreign terrorist organizations by the Trump Administration.
Mexican cartels are increasing their use of drones to replace human scouts to monitor the activity of U.S. Border Patrol agents along the border. The drones are reportedly replacing the human scouts who were frequently minors.
