Border / Cartel Chronicles - Page 25

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and agents arrested the owners of a donut shop after finding eight illegal aliens working in the business. The owners of Abby’s Bakery in Los Fresnos, Texas, allegedly admitted to investigators they knew the migrants were unlawfully present in the United States.

An illegal alien from Spain suffered frostbite after crossing the border from Canada into New York on Wednesday. Following treatment at a local hospital, Border Patrol officials he was processed for removal.

Swanton Sector Border Patrol officials reported that an Algerian migrant had to be hospitalized for frostbite after he illegally crossed the border from Canada into New York. He will be processed for removal after being treated for exposure to the frigid temperatures.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the current deportation operations are “saving lives” every day. She highlighted the Trump administration’s efforts to round up the worst of the worst criminal aliens.

Mexico’s government has been hyping up minor seizures and cartel arrests as part of a PR strategy attempting to appease the Trump administration. Trump officials highlighted Meixco’s inaction against cartels and corruption. The American president has threatened them with tariffs and other punitive measures.

El gobierno de México ha estado exagerando las incautaciones menores y las detenciones de los cárteles como parte de una estrategia de relaciones públicas en un intento de apaciguar a la administración Trump, que ha destacado su inacción contra los cárteles y la corrupción y los ha amenazado con aranceles y otras medidas punitivas.

The apprehension of migrants illegally crossing the border from Mexico along the U.S. southwest border fell by nearly 38 percent in January as Donald Trump was sworn in as president. President Trump took the oath of office on January 20.

In stark contrast to messaging delivered by her predecessor, the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem issued a stern warning to people contemplating an illegal trip to the United States, “We will hunt you down.” The message, videotaped by Noem on behalf of President Trump, highlighted the efforts underway to secure the border, informing migrants that things have changed.

Multiple news outlets report that the CIA is now stepping up drone flights over Mexico. The currently unarmed flights are said to be searching for fentanyl labs run by Mexican cartels designated by President Donald Trump as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

President Donald Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship for illegal aliens, tied to the invasion on the border, tees up a major Supreme Court case that could become a historic Trump win that fixes a growing, decades-long problem.

A federal judge in New Mexico sentenced a Salvadoran woman to prison after she violently assaulted a Border Patrol agent last year. The incident took place along the state’s border with Mexico in May 2024.

A dangerous cell from the Gulf Cartel has been terrorizing the central part of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas with complete impunity despite a heavy presence of military, federal, and state police forces. The cell also caused problems for the rest of the Gulf Cartel for their widespread kidnapping of innocent women to rape them, senseless killings, and violence which has terrorized locals. Mexico’s government continues to turn a blind eye.

Una peligrosa célula del Cártel del Golfo ha estado aterrorizando la parte central de Tamaulipas con total impunidad, a pesar de que hay una fuerte presencia de fuerzas militares, federales y estatales en la región. La célula incluso ha causado problemas al Cártel del Golfo por múltiples raptos de mujeres inocentes que después son violadas, múltiples asesinatos sin sentido y violencia que ha aterrorizado a los lugareños, sin embargo, el gobierno de México sigue haciéndose de la vista gorda.

Hundreds of Texas National Guardsmen participated in a swearing-in ceremony to allow them to enforce immigration law in partnership with U.S. Border Patrol agents.

A multi-agency task force responded to a tip about a large quantity of methamphetamine being trafficked in the Plum Grove, Texas, area. A targeted traffic stop led to the arrest of three previously deported illegal aliens and the seizure of nearly 350 pounds of methamphetamine.

agents in Texas arrested a Mexican national who pleaded guilty in 2021 for invasive visual recordings in

Border Patrol agents arrested multiple criminal aliens who illegally crossed the border into the United States. Many of these included illegal aliens with previous convictions for sex crimes and crimes against children.

The Trump administration is preparing to designate a series of Mexican drug cartels and two from Central and South America as foreign terrorist organizations. The move comes as Mexico continues to experience unprecedented levels of violence, including the widespread use of landmines and improvised explosive devices, despite empty government claims that crime has decreased and impunity has ended.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that she and her staff are considering suing Google for refusing to change the Gulf of America to the Gulf of Mexico.

A former Mexican governor sent a series of letters to U.S. President Donald J. Trump, warning him about the alleged cartel connections of Mexico’s new consul in Miami. In the letters, the politician warned Trump to have the U.S. Department of State and the National Security Council properly check the proposed diplomat due to his questionable background.

Un político mexicano envió una serie de cartas al presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald J. Trump, advirtiéndole sobre las supuestas conexiones con cárteles del nuevo cónsul de México en Miami. En la carta, el político advierte a Trump que haga que el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos y el Consejo de Seguridad Nacional investiguen adecuadamente al diplomático debido a sus antecedentes cuestionables.

Recent reports from the United States Border Patrol reveal a new trend among migrants headed to the United States hoping to cross the U.S./Mexico border. The migrants, according to recent reports, have become discouraged by Trump’s mass deportation operations and are choosing to turn back, abandoning their attempt to reach the United States altogether.

Migrant apprehensions along the Southwest U.S. Border with Mexico fell by nearly 96 percent last week, compared to the average number of apprehensions in February 2024. According to data from the Texas Department of Public Safety, apprehensions over the previous seven days in the five Texas-based border sectors fell by nearly 89 percent from last year.

A group of gunmen kidnapped and killed a Texas man who had crossed into the Mexican border city of Reynosa to pay real estate taxes on some property he owed there.

La presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, invitó y se paró a pocos metros de distancia de un general del Ejército mexicano que ha sido ligado y arrestado previamente por el Departamento de Justicia de USA por tener presuntos vínculos con los cárteles de la droga. La aparición pública se produce en un momento en que México enfrenta una inmensa presión del gobierno de los Estados Unidos para erradicar los cárteles de la droga o enfrentar sanciones y otras medidas punitivas.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum invited and stood just a few feet away from an infamous Mexican Army General who has been singled out and previously arrested by the U.S. Department of Justice for having alleged ties to drug cartels. The public appearance comes at a time when Mexico’ is facing immense pressure from the U.S. government to eradicate drug cartels or face sanctions and other punitive measures.

Border Patrol agents in Michigan arrested a “leader of hitmen with the Gulf Cartel” during an immigration enforcement action last week.

According to a leaked government document reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, a “large-scale” immigration enforcement action is planned for later this month in Los Angeles. The action is reported to involve law enforcement officials from multiple federal agencies.

Una de las organizaciones criminales más violentas, que ha sido vinculada a miles de desapariciones forzadas en México, ha hecho un video en el que afirman que no atacan a civiles y piden a la comunidad que continúe con su vida diaria. El video llega en un momento en que existe una intensa presión del gobierno de los Estados Unidos para no solo para etiquetar a los cárteles hiperviolentos como grupos terroristas, sino para erradicarlos.

One of the most violent criminal organizations, which has been linked to thousands of forced abductions in Mexico, has made a video where they claim not to be targeting civilians and asks the community to go about their daily lives. The video comes as there is intense pressure from the U.S. government to not only label hyperviolent cartels as terrorist groups but to eradicate them.

United States taxpayers have sent more than $3 billion to Mexico since 2008 to combat the drug cartels that have mercilessly flooded illicit narcotics, including fentanyl, into the country. Despite the infusion of U.S. tax dollars funneled to Mexico through the Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) and USAID, the cartels have become stronger rather than weaker.

Border Patrol officials issued statements this week that agents are not targeting schools, school buses, or churches to find and remove illegal aliens. The statements follow false claims by teachers and others that agents are targeting children in schools.

A commercial truck driver from Austin, Texas, is facing a sentence of life in prison following his conviction on a charge of murdering a sex-trafficking victim. The woman’s body was found in East Texas after she got in the driver’s truck in Dallas.

The terrorist organization known as the Gulf Cartel has once again killed an innocent victim who was caught in the middle of a shootout. The fatal shooting comes just days after terrorist Gulf Cartel gunmen shot and killed a woman and her two young grandchildren as they slept inside their house while rival gunmen clashed outside.

La organización terrorista conocida como el Cártel del Golfo ha vuelto a matar a una víctima inocente que quedó atrapada en medio de un tiroteo. El tiroteo fatal se produce pocos días después de que otros terroristas del Cártel del Golfo dispararan y mataran a una mujer y a sus dos nietos pequeños mientras dormían dentro de su casa mientras que afuera pistoleros rivales se estaban enfrentando.

Mexican officials teamed up with U.S. Border Patrol to locate another cross-border smuggling tunnel. Officials report the finding of a tunnel on Tuesday near the Stanton-Lerdo Port of Entry in El Paso.