Cartel gunmen resumed the use of landmines in the Mexican state just south of the border with Texas. In the most recent series of attacks, the gunmen used an explosive to kill an innocent farmer who was driving to a ranch. In a separate attack, they injured five police officers using another buried landmine.
A team of law enforcement officers assigned to a fugitive task force managed to apprehend a suspect wanted for a capital murder case found hiding near the U.S.-Mexico Border in Eagle Pass, Texas. John Chancey III was located more than 250 miles away from where the murder occurred in Fayette County, Texas.
A Tennessee truck driver is dead after a Chinese national, who is not proficient in English and has a non-domiciled New York commercial driver’s license (CDL), allegedly crashed a tour bus — now federal transportation officials are investigating how he was cleared to drive.
Multiple law enforcement agencies rushed to Midway Road in Rio Grande City on Thursday after a confrontation between U.S. Border Patrol agents and suspects escalated into gunfire near the riverbank. The Starr County Sheriff’s Office confirmed agents were involved in a struggle before shots were fired.
DHS officials announced the milestone of 10,000 criminal aliens being arrested in the sanctuary city of Los Angeles. These include many violent criminal aliens, including a woman who had 14 previous convictions. Others arrested include illegal aliens with charges or convictions for murder, drug dealing, sexual offenses, and other criminal offenses.
Federal immigration teams in New Orleans this week arrested dozens of criminal aliens accused of violent and predatory crimes, including rapists, thieves, human smugglers, domestic abusers, and child endangerers. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials said the operation was part of a nationwide push to dismantle sanctuary protections and remove “the worst of the worst” from American communities, underscoring President Trump’s directive to prioritize public safety in deportation efforts.
Guatemala deployed special forces, known as Kaibiles, to guard its northern border with Mexico just days after teams of cartel gunmen from Mexico entered the country and carried out violent attacks in rural border communities. The teams of cartel gunmen also clashed with Guatemalan military forces.
Forty-three state police officers in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas have been suspended. They are under investigation for having turned their police station into a bar and being drunk on the job. The scandal comes at a time when Tamaulipas continues to experience rising levels of cartel violence, and state police officers have been accused of not acting against cartel gunmen.
A cadre of Texas Department of Public Safety troopers now stand watch over Texas’s most visited historic site. The Alamo Trust, a non-profit organization responsible for the daily operations of the historic site, transferred security responsibility to the troopers who have been in place since September.
A mob of agitators confronted ICE agents and pelted the immigration agents during the arrest of a suspected member of the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang in Elgin, Illinois. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the agitators committed the assaults during the arrest of Luis Jesus Acosta-Gutierrez, a Venezuelan illegal alien accused of using his vehicle to ram into an ICE agent’s vehicle on Sunday.
President Donald Trump blasted Mexico for “stealing America’s water.” He announced a five percent tariff on Mexican imports after the country failed to honor its treaty obligations, vowing to force compliance and promising Texas farmers that “relief is coming.”
Un grupo de sicarios dejó un cuerpo decapitado y una cabeza cercenada en dos lugares distintos como mensaje para sus rivales, en medio de una feroz guerra territorial en la capital del estado fronterizo de Tamaulipas. Este nuevo episodio de violencia ocurre en un momento en que el gobernador, quien anteriormente ha sido vinculado con el crimen organizado, sigue afirmando que la seguridad pública ha mejorado durante su mandato.
A group of cartel gunmen left a headless body and a severed head in two separate locations as a message to their rivals as they continue a fierce turf war in the capital of the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas. The latest chapter of violence comes at a time when the cartel-connected governor continues to claim that public safety has improved during his term.
Advisers for Joe Biden warned the former president in 2020 that his immigration plans could lead to “chaos” at the U.S. border, would overwhelm the system and might hand Donald Trump a second term – but he ignored them, according to a report in Sunday’s New York Times.
Anti-immigration-enforcement thugs assaulted independent journalist Nick Sortor in New Orleans on Saturday night during a protest at a federal building. The violent assault on the journalist happened after Sortor dared to ask one of the speakers why she thinks the National Guard is racist — a statement she made on the stage.
An apparent suicide bomber drove a vehicle full of explosives towards a community police station in Western Mexico and set it off. The bomb killed the suicide bomber and two other victims, and injured ten others. The suicide attack using car bombs marks an escalation in the way drug cartels have been fighting authorities in Mexico.
A new law went into effect in the Lone Star State that requires people using restrooms in publicly owned spaces to do so in one that matches their biological sex at birth. Senate Bill 8, also known as the Texas Women’s Privacy Act, went into effect on Thursday.
Prosecutors in the Mexican border state of Coahuila have filed child abuse charges against a priest who is currently living in Texas. Authorities are also working to file more charges in connection with a second victim and believe there may be more.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks announced this week that illegal aliens age 14 and older who entered the country without inspection will be assessed a $5,000 apprehension fee. The warning came as CBP Air and Marine Operations cautioned would‑be migrants against attempting illegal sea crossings, and the Department of Homeland Security declared that President Trump and Secretary Kristi Noem have delivered seven straight months with zero Border Patrol releases — the longest stretch in history.
U.S. Southern Command announced Thursday that American forces carried out a lethal kinetic strike in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four suspected narco‑terrorists and destroying their heavily laden smuggling vessel. The attack, directed by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth under Operation Southern Spear, marks the 22nd strike against cartel‑linked traffickers in international waters and brings the total number of narco‑terrorists killed to nearly 90. The strikes continue despite harsh criticism from some lawmakers in Congress.
FBI agents and Louisiana State Police have launched a joint effort to safeguard federal immigration officers during enhanced enforcement operations in New Orleans. The partnership, announced Wednesday, aims to deter a surge in assaults on Border Patrol and ICE agents, with officials warning that any interference will bring swift and severe consequences.
Federal prosecutors in Laredo secured convictions against two illegal aliens who built and sold machine guns and cocaine in the border city. One of the men pleaded guilty earlier this year, while the second one went to trial this week. Jurors found him guilty of all counts.
In recent days, Texas DPS troopers and Border Patrol agents intercepted multiple smuggling attempts, including 51 migrants locked inside a refrigerated trailer, 23 crammed into a truck cab in La Salle County, and others fleeing in a rollover crash in Zapata County.
Border Patrol agents announced the recent arrest of a Guatemalan woman wanted in Tennessee for aggravated child abuse after she illegally re-entered the United States near El Paso, Texas. According to the Border Patrol, the woman, 28-year-old Maria Rosario Fabian-Alvarado, faces a felony charge of re-entry into the United States and another deportation.
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin blasted New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Monday, accusing the state of releasing 6,946 criminal illegal aliens back onto city streets since January while refusing to honor ICE detainers.
For several days, Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, attempted to downplay the resignation of her Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero. His resignation sparked widespread controversy over his sudden exit.
In just a few short weeks, a Border Patrol-led task force arrested more than 400 illegal aliens in Charlotte, North Carolina. According to Border Patrol Commander Greg K. Bovino, illegal aliens targeted and arrested during “Operation Charlotte’s Web” were found to be in the company of others who also had a significant criminal history in more than 50 percent of all cases.
The son of jailed Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera pleaded guilty to various drug trafficking charges as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. As part of the plea deal, the young drug lord Joaquin “El Guero” Guzman Lopez confessed to having planned the kidnapping of his father’s former ally, Sinaloa Cartel’s co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, in order to turn him over to U.S. authorities.
Joaquín Guzmán López, son of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán on Monday pleaded guilty to U.S. drug trafficking charges.
A Honduran national has been charged in federal court on charges he knowingly attempted to smuggle 51 illegal aliens in a refrigerated semi-tractor trailer near the Mexican border near Freer, Texas. The suspect is now facing up to ten years in federal prison.
Two migrant women fell while climbing the border wall into California. A trucker who was waiting in line to cross through a port of entry captured the incident on a cell phone, which has since been widely shared on social media.
An Afghan national admitted to the United States under President Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome resettlement program was arrested this week after posting a TikTok video in which he appeared to be building a bomb and referenced Fort Worth as a target, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
U.S. consular officials are warning travelers about the high risk of carjackings by cartel gunmen on the highways leading north to the Texas border. Just hours after issuing that warning, a group of cartel gunmen shot two men from Mexico who were heading to Texas to take advantage of the Black Friday specials.
Federal and state authorities arrested nearly 250 foreign commercial truck drivers in November alone, warning that cartel operatives and foreign nationals are exploiting America’s commercial driver licensing system to infiltrate freight corridors and endanger national security.
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared that the United States has “only just begun to kill narco-terrorists,” a blunt call to escalate direct action against cartel operatives. Hegseth reinforced the message in a separate post, vowing that the campaign against transnational drug cartels has entered a new phase.
The son of notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is set to plead guilty in U.S. federal court in a stunning turn that could shatter cartel alliances and expose ties to Mexico’s political elite. Joaquín “El Moreno” Guzmán López, arrested in 2024 during a betrayal operation against Sinaloa kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, is expected to cooperate with U.S. law enforcement — a move that threatens to unleash cartel secrets at the highest levels of power.
Michigan is about to become ground zero in America’s immigration fight as federal enforcement operations and detention capacity expand. At the same time, President Trump unveils sweeping plans to permanently halt migration from Third World countries and reverse millions of Biden‑era admissions following the murder of a National Guardsman in Washington, D.C., allegedly by a refugee from Afghanistan.
President Donald Trump has unveiled plans to permanently halt migration from Third World nations and roll back millions of Biden‑era admissions — including those he blasted as illegally authorized through ‘Sleepy Joe’s Autopen.’
In September 2021, then U.S. Senate candidate JD Vance warned that Joe Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal and reckless refugee resettlement would “create an opportunity for terrorists.” He blasted the administration for flooding America with “thousands of unvetted people,” a failure he said put Americans at risk.
The majority owner of the Miss Universe pageant, Raul Rocha, is the current target of an organized crime probe in Mexico, where the businessman is alleged to have taken part in weapons trafficking for the Gulf Cartel and illegal fuel trafficking.
