A group of activists who search for mass graves and missing persons reported the discovery of two cartel incineration sites in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, just south of McAllen, Texas. This marks the 19th discovery of human remains by activists in that city alone this year.
Reports from Laredo, Texas, indicate that multiple bodies were found on Sunday in a Union Pacific railway car. The bodies were found at the railyard in Laredo, not far from the Texas-Mexico border.
A federal grand jury in San Antonio returned an indictment charging a New Braunfels woman for allegedly attempting to set fire to the Comal County Republican Party Headquarters. According to the indictment, 22-year-old Grace Carol Brown is charged with actual and attempted malicious damage by fire to property involved in interstate or foreign commerce.
A group of gunmen released a video where they pull up to a house belonging to Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha Moya and spray gunfire into the abandoned home before leaving. The attack comes soon after Rocha Moya became the topic of much controversy after the U.S. Department of Justice accused him of being a cartel lackey.
One of the state’s leading hospice care providers told Texas legislators that Medicare fraud is rampant across the Lone Star State, with rogue operators billing Medicare for millions in Taxpayer dollars. Testimony revealed that patients are being enrolled into hospice without their knowledge, and at least one provider has as many as 15 hospices operating in a single building, with the same owner.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the San Ysidro Port of Entry recently found and seized more than 225 pounds of cocaine in a single smuggling event. The late-April seizure demonstrates the agency’s ability to focus on defeating cartel smuggling networks that continue to probe the heightened Trump border security posture for weaknesses.
A group of cartel gunmen carried out a brazen attack on a funeral procession in front of a squad of Mexican Army soldiers who did nothing to stop it. The attack comes at a time when the governor of that state, Sinaloa, had to take leave after him and nine of his closest allies were named as drug traffickers in a criminal indictment by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Democratic members of Congress called for the closure of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center at a press conference held at the facility on Tuesday. The lawmakers spoke to reporters as a small group of protesters gathered outside, demanding the release of detainees being held at the facility designed to hold families as they await deportation.
United States President Donald J. Trump has once again increased the pressure on Mexico by declaring that if they won’t fight cartels head-on, his government will and threatened the use of ground forces, which he claimed are easier to move than the ongoing attacks on cartel boats at sea.
A criminal case against an Indiana woman came to an end when a federal judge handed 36-year-old Annamarie Fleischman a 50-year prison sentence after she pleaded guilty to charges of sexual exploitation of children and receipt of child pornography. Her sentence of confinement also carries a lifetime term of supervision upon release from federal prison. Fleischman entered her guilty plea on April 20.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents and Corpus Christi police officers arrested 42-year-old Benjamin Thomas Milfet, a PTA Board Member and Mireles Elementary School volunteer, for the alleged possession of child pornography. A search warrant executed on Milfet’s property revealed a cellphone allegedly belonging to the suspect contained more than 2,000 images of child sex abuse materials, according to an ICE media release.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum turned to a nationalist rhetoric, telling the Trump administration to stay out of her country.
Hundreds of people are planning a major celebration in the Mexican city of Culiacan, Sinaloa, over the resignation of the state’s cartel-connected governor, who is now a fugitive wanted by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Members of the Iranian American Community took to the streets once again to call for the toppling of the Islamic regime as the delicate cease-fire continues. As the rally moved through the streets of the Alamo City, President Trump rejected the latest proposal submitted by the regime to end the war and announced plans to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz.
The Mexican governor of Sinaloa, who made headlines this week after the U.S. Department of Justice announced a criminal indictment against him, has taken a temporary leave from his post pending the outcome of the scandal. Other public officials from Sinaloa, also named in the indictment, asked for leave.
A small crowd of leftists gathered in downtown San Antonio on Friday afternoon for a May-Day-Strong demonstration in support of International Workers’ Day. The event quickly pivoted into a protest against a wide range of Trump administration policies as demonstrators chanted slogans and carried signs opposing billionaires, a planned ICE facility, the perceived U.S. embargo on Cuba, ICE agents, the war in Iran, U.S. military action in Venezuela, and in support of queer rights.
Dozens of residents in the cartel-controlled city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, took a high risk by holding a protest, blocking one of the area’s main avenues, and asking to be able to live in peace. The protest follows an attack by gunmen from the Gulf Cartel that led to the murder of two innocent citizens with complete impunity, while the Tamaulipas government claims that the state is one of the safest in the nation.
The Texas Attorney General’s Office filed a lawsuit against a Houston “birth tourism” center doing business under the name De’Ai Postpartum Care Center. Paxton alleges the center unlawfully facilitates the entry of Chinese nationals to the United States for the sole purpose of birthing children to obtain United States citizenship.
Authorities in the Mexican border state of Coahuila are seeing a dramatic decrease in migrant drownings since the start of stricter border security measures implemented by the U.S. government.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy is marking the one‑year anniversary of President Trump’s executive order on trucking reform by touting sweeping federal actions that have reshaped the industry.
An industrial worker died on Wednesday afternoon when an asphalt storage tank collapsed, burying him in three feet of the tar-like substance.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is openly challenging the U.S. Justice Department and is apparently using her political power to prevent the arrest and extradition of a sitting state governor, a senator, and a mayor, all from her political party, MORENA. Those three men and seven other top law enforcement officials from the state of Sinaloa are wanted in a U.S. federal court on drug trafficking charges.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is being forced to choose between protecting the cartel- connected political party that got her into power or actually fighting drug cartels, as the Trump administration has been pressuring her to do. For now, Sheinbaum appears to be moving to protect her party. It remains to be seen how the U.S. government will react.
According to a source within CBP, Border Patrol records show the running average for known got-aways nationwide remains 97 percent below record peaks set in 2023. Once reaching an average of more than 2,000 per day high in 2023, totals show less than 50 known got-aways are being recorded nationwide on most days.
After a week of walking north from the border city of Tapachula, Chiapas, in southern Mexico, the latest group of migrants hoping to escape the Mexico-Guatemala border region has been reduced from around 1,000 to about 700. The group is the second to depart the region this year, hoping to reach Mexico City and parts farther north, where jobs are more plentiful.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced the unsealing of a criminal indictment against a sitting Mexican governor and his closest allies. The case is historic in nature since it is the first time that a sitting Mexican governor has been named in a cartel-connected criminal case.
The head of the Chihuahua State Attorney General’s Office, Cesar Jauregui Moreno, resigned his position following the highly publicized death of two U.S. agents after a raid in Mexico. The state prosecutor had earned a reputation for being tough on cartels at a time when Mexico’s federal government continues its soft or even complicit approach to criminal organizations.
Two high-level military operations carried out by Mexico’s Navy delivered a powerful blow to the most feared terrorist group in Mexico, Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG). The arrests of two of its top leaders come just weeks after Mexico’s military forces, working with U.S. intelligence agencies, killed the cartel’s supreme leader and founder, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, in February.
Mexico’s Navy raided a trucking depot that was being used by the Gulf Cartel to store thousands of gallons of stolen fuel that would be sold on the underground market as part of a complex moneymaking scheme.
The U.S. Department of State sent out a travel alert warning U.S. citizens to avoid the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, following a series of blockades and attacks on police surveillance cameras. As part of the blockades, cartel gunmen stole some tractor-trailers, parked them across highways, and set them on fire.
According to the attorney for the six-member family of Mohamed Sabri Soliman, the group was re-detained by ICE on Saturday after their release earlier in the week as a result of a federal judge’s decision. According to a social media post by the family’s counsel, Michigan-based Immigration Attorney Eric Lee, ICE said, “Deportation is imminent.” Within hours, Lee says the deportation flight turned around after a federal judge issued an emergency stay.
Mexico’s government seeks to extradite a fugitive vice-admiral who is wanted in connection with a large-scale cartel-connected fuel smuggling conspiracy. The admiral allegedly attempted to flee to Argentina to avoid prosecution in Mexico.
A group of nearly 100 protesters gathered outside a warehouse to rage against U.S. Customs and Immigration Service (ICE) plans to convert the property into a processing and detention facility. The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) organized the protest, attended by a crowd of mostly senior citizens, who chanted along with speakers as they held signs critical of ICE.
Waymo, the automated self-driving taxi service and subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., paused operations in the Alamo City after one of its unoccupied driverless vehicles was swept away in a low-water crossing on Monday night. The service has yet to resume during the busy “Fiesta” celebration period in San Antonio.
Retired Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino has added his voice to the list of those left seething after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said no one respects Border Patrol and ICE in this country during a late-night debate on a Department of Homeland Security funding package. Bovino told Breitbart Texas the comment epitomizes what the Democrat party stands for.
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum is calling for an investigation into why two U.S. agents were allegedly operating in her country alongside Mexican state authorities. The Mexican president has largely remained quiet about how a drug trafficking organization was able to set up and operate one of the largest meth labs in history with almost complete impunity until those two agents worked with Mexican state authorities to shut them down.
CBP officers arrested a 41‑year‑old woman traveling with three minors at the Nogales Port of Entry after finding an RPG launcher tube, rifles, and weapons parts concealed in a void beneath the back seat of her Lexus. Officials say the cache was discovered during outbound inspections aimed at stopping weapons from reaching criminal groups in Mexico.
The Houston City Council, by a vote of 13-4, passed a new policy resolution that appears to resolve the dispute with the State of Texas over ICE cooperation. Shortly before today’s 2-hour debate and vote, Houston ICE officials announced officers arrested 277 criminal aliens in the Houston area during the past two weeks.
A federal judge has ordered the release of the six-member family of Mohamed Sabri Soliman, an Egyptian national who is currently facing 184 criminal charges related to a firebomb attack that killed one in Boulder, Colorado. The ruling by Federal District Judge Fred Biery orders ICE to release the family members who have been detained in Dilley, Texas since June 2025.
Authorities are labelling Monday’s mass shooting near Mexico City as a lone wolf attack that killed one Canadian woman and injured over a dozen other victims, including six U.S. citizens. New information from the crime scene also points to the shooter attempting to pay homage to the 1999 Columbine mass shooting which took place in the United States.
