The jurors in the impeachment trial of suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton began a second day of deliberations on Saturday. The 30 voting senators deliberated for about eight hours on Friday after impassioned closing arguments from the defense team and House Impeachment Managers.
Mexican authorities moved Ovidio “El Raton” Guzman out of a maximum security prison for extradition to the United States. Guzman is the son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
Twelve Mexican border state police officers are awaiting sentencing following their conviction on multiple charges concerning the execution and incineration of 19 individuals, including 17 Central American migrants.
Lawyers for suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton put on his defense and rested on Day 8 of his impeachment trial. One of Paxton’s lawyers accurately summed up the case as essentially a “rebuttal case at this point, not really a defense.” Paxton’s lawyers called only four witnesses for his defense – all current employees of Paxton.
Closing arguments in the Texas Senate impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton begin on Friday morning in the Capitol. House Managers and the defense team will present their summation to the 30 voting senators serving as jurors in the impeachment trial.
Six Gulf Cartel gunmen died during a shootout with police forces in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. The shootout comes as the Mexican border state continues to be ground zero for a fierce turf war between rival factions of the Gulf Cartel.
Texas House “prosecutors” started Day 7 of the impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton by calling his mistress as a witness. Whistleblowers testified that the AG met with his top brass and wife in September 2018 and admitted he had an affair with Laura Olson.
The defense of suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton takes center stage in the impeachment trial on Thursday after the House rested Wednesday evening.
Authorities in Mexico City rescued four Iranian citizens and two Ecuadoran migrants who had been kidnapped and were being held for ransom. The incident comes as Mexico continues to see a record-setting number of migrants making their way to the U.S. border.
Defense counsel for Ken Paxton, flamboyant Houston attorney Tony Buzbee, motioned for a directed verdict after House impeachment attorney Rusty Hardin rested the “prosecutions” case. Senate jurors were out deliberating on the motions but returned to the Senate chamber. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick announced that the “prosecution” and the defense had withdrawn their motions.
Texas House “prosecutors” started Day 7 of the impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton by calling Laura Olson as a witness. Witnesses testified that Paxton called a meeting in September of 2018 and admitted to his top brass and his wife that he had an affair with Olson.
The United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) declared the U.S.-Mexico border the deadliest land border crossing after documenting 686 deaths and disappearances of migrants on in 2022. Tuesday’s announcement noted the toll for migrant disappearances and deaths throughout the Americas is the deadliest year on record since the IOM’s Missing Migrants Project (MMP) began.
Durante el día, se espera que las autoridades federales liberen a Emma Coronel Aispuro, la esposa del infame líder del Cartel de Sinaloa, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, quien está encarcelado. La narco-reina encarcelada se había estado alojando en un centro de readaptación en California mientras cumplía la última parte de una sentencia de prisión de tres años por conspiración para lavado de dinero y tráfico de drogas en conexión con el imperio criminal de su marido.
Federal authorities are expected to release Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of imprisoned Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, from prison on Wednesday. The jailed narco-queen had been staying at a halfway house in California as she served the last part of a three-year prison sentence for money laundering and drug trafficking conspiracy in connection with her husband’s criminal empire.
During Day 6 of the impeachment trial of suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, House Impeachment managers called the special prosecutor hired to investigate state and federal investigators. These included officials who were investigating Nate Paul, and AG Paxton’s securities fraud cases. A “prosecution” witness from the bank said they had to stop the foreclosure of Paxton’s donor’s properties and that pulling the foreclosure due to the controversial AG opinion benefitted the donor.
During the sixth day of the impeachment trial of suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, House Impeachment managers called the special prosecutor hired to investigate the AG’s and his donor’s investigators, including investigators who were also investigating Paxton and his securities fraud cases. The “prosecution” witness from the bank said they had to stop the foreclosure of Paxton’s donor properties and that pulling the foreclosure due to the AG opinion letter benefitted the donor.
Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 63,000 migrants in the first ten days of September, according to unofficial reports reviewed by Breitbart Texas. This represents a nearly ten percent increase over the same period in August.
A Peruvian businessman wanted in his own country over fraud charges connected to the country’s political elite is currently in U.S. custody after he illegally crossed the border into Texas. After crossing the border, the fugitive from Peru requested asylum.
With more than 22,000 migrants being held in custody, a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the Border Patrol is being forced to cut routine patrols along the border. In some areas, highway inspection checkpoints have been closed to accommodate another increase in the number of migrant crossings. On Monday alone, the agency apprehended more than 7,700 migrants nationwide.
House Managers in the Texas Senate impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton are expected to wrap up their case during Day 6 of testimony.
The fifth day of the impeachment trial of suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton included reports of adultery and misuse of State resources for private purposes. His former chief of staff testified that “50 percent” of executive-level staff time was spent on activities to benefit donor Natin “Nate” Paul, and it “was directed by Attorney General Ken Paxton.” Paxton wanted to have his office investigate the federal and DPS investigators who were investigating his donor and him, witnesses testified.
The former chief of staff to suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton confronted her boss after his security detail, state-employed personal assistant, and other staff members complained about Paxton’s adulterous relationship with Laura Olson. She also testified about the impact of calendaring changes, extra hours, and weekends staff had to work due to his behavior. This “was not state business,” she testified.
A group of cartel gunmen attacked a search party of women who were looking for clandestine gravesites throughout Mexico in an attempt to find their loved ones. The women survived the ordeal when a police escort fought off the attack.
The former deputy attorney general for law enforcement for suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton testified that Paxton wanted the office to investigate federal investigators who were investigating his donor and him.
Day five of the Texas Senate Impeachment Trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton opened with direct testimony from Mark Penley. Mr. Penley served as deputy attorney general for law enforcement before resigning.
Over Labor Day Weekend, Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended four large migrant groups who crossed the border from Mexico into Texas. The four groups totaled more than 500 migrants, an official reported.
A group of cartel gunmen attacked a group of close to 20 tourists who had just crossed into Mexico on their from Texas. Mexican authorities rushed seven injured tourists to a U.S. port of entry, where medical personnel tended to them and took them to local hospitals. Cartel gunmen used an armored vehicle to ram the cars being used by the tourists and began shooting at them.
House Impeachment Managers continued to call “prosecution” witnesses during day four of the impeachment trial of suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. One of the witnesses, a Texas law enforcement “icon,” testified he warned Paxton that conducting an investigation for the benefit of donor Nate Paul could end up with them getting indicted. He called Paul a “criminal” who was “running a Ponzi scheme.”
U.S. Border Patrol Mounted Patrol agents chased down a suspected human smuggler following a dangerous police pursuit near the Texas border with Mexico. A Texas DPS trooper engaged in a vehicle pursuit after observing a suspected migrant in the pickup
A Texas Ranger “Icon” turned AG whistleblower took the stand on day four of the impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton. David M. Maxwell, Jr., a distinguished Texas law enforcement officer with 25 years experience as a Texas Ranger, testified that he told the AG that both of them could get indicted if they interfered in the FBI’s investigation of Paxton’s donor, Nate Paul.
In what Border Patrol agents describe as a daily event, more than 300 mostly West African migrants walked through drainage gates in the border wall several miles west of Lukeville, Arizona. The group contained around forty migrants from Peru, India, Ecuador, and several Middle Eastern countries, according to Border Patrol agents who spoke to Breitbart Texas.
A special forces squad from Mexico’s Navy (SEMAR) arrested one of the Gulf Cartel’s top enforcers in the border city of Reynosa. The arrest comes as the Gulf Cartel has been going through a fierce turf war between rival factions, bringing almost daily shootouts to various border cities.
Day four of the Texas Senate impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton kicked off in the Capitol at 9 a.m.
Day three of the impeachment trial of suspended Texas Attorney General Kenneth Paxton began with the recall of House impeachment witness Ryan Bangert, a former top deputy. Bangert testified that the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) had been highjacked
New York City Mayor Eric Adams shifted the blame on his expanding migrant crisis to a “madman down in Texas.” The mayor referred to the migrant busing program Texas Governor Greg Abbott created under his Operation Lone Star border security mission.
The two main political parties in Mexico nominated women to be their presidential candidates. Due to their immense following, one of those two women will likely be Mexico’s next president, making it the first time in the country’s history that a woman leads the nation.
Day three of the Texas Senate impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton began with testimony by Ryan Bangert, former deputy first assistant under AG Paxton.
Day Two of the impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Warren Kenneth Paxton, Jr. began with Paxton withdrawing his assertion of attorney-client privilege as to conversations and other evidence that occurred during his time as AG. The temperature of the senate “courtroom” was heated as the “Prosecution” called two key witnesses — one who testified about blackmail concerns and identified the AG’s alleged extramarital affair as the reason for the AG’s improper actions.
A federal judge in the Western District of Texas ordered the State of Texas to remove the floating border barriers put in place in July. Governor Greg Abbott announced he is appealing the ruling.
As Breitbart Texas observed the Arizona border this week, migrant groups continued to cross into the United States from a host of countries — including some considered by the DHS to be of special interest due to the prevalence of terrorism in that country or hostility to the United States. According to a CBP report reviewed by Breitbart Texas, the arrest of migrants from Mauritania and Egypt at the southwest border rose by as much as 6,000 percent compared to 2022 statistics kept by CBP.
