Migrant got-aways along the southwest border with Mexico dropped significantly in January, according to a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Border Patrol officials estimate the number of got-aways fell to 48,000 during the fourth month of the fiscal year.
Sicarios que habían llevado a cabo un ataque con granadas en un restaurante en México regresaron y mataron a un mesero que había salvado a las personas adentro al detener a uno de los pistoleros.
A restaurant waiter in Mexico who disarmed a cartel gunman during a grenade assault was killed in retaliation after prosecutors refused to charge the attackers last week.
During a search of a livestock trailer being pulled through a Border Patrol interior immigration checkpoint in Arizona, a suspected human smuggler made an unsuccessful attempt to flee from the scene on horseback. The incident happened on Saturday as agents discovered seven migrants hidden in a compartment covered by bails of hay in the trailer being pulled by the alleged smuggler.
Contrary to political rhetoric, Mexican cartel-style killings and gun battles appear to have already reached the U.S. and are spreading — particularly in California. The region experienced an explosive growth of cartel marijuana grow operations that are taking advantage of legalization and lax laws.
Police and family members are engaged in a desperate search for a missing 24-year-old correctional officer in the border community of Eagle Pass. Evelyn Guardado, 24, went missing shortly after 2:00 pm on Tuesday, January 31, after leaving the GEO Group Incorporated Correctional Facility where she is employed.
Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents and a CBP Air and Marine Operations aircrew guided local police officers to the location of a suspected school shooter this week.
A 15-year-old from San Antonio is charged with human smuggling after leading Texas Highway Patrol troopers on a high-speed pursuit in Frio County. The pursuit ended when the teen lost control on the wet roadway and drove up a highway overpass berm causing the pickup truck to roll over. The teen and his 12-year-old accomplice were taken into custody at the scene.
While U.S. prosecutors claim to be taking a hard stance against human smuggling, a local Texas police chief is calling out lacking cooperation and promptness from federal authorities in the wake of deadly human smuggling incidents.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — An Ecuadorian migrant lost his life while trying to cross the swollen Rio Grande with his wife and son. The family attempted to ford the river near the international bridge connecting to Piedras Negras on Wednesday afternoon. As the family attempted their crossing, the man’s wife and son were swept down-river. The man managed to save his son before disappearing under the current.
A woman residing illegally in the United States pleaded guilty this week before a federal judge to sex trafficking involving the use of force, fraud, or coercion of both adult and minor females. The victims were forced to perform commercial sex acts in a cantina in Houston.
Three Chinese nationals were encountered crossing the border in South Texas by Border Patrol agents and Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol troopers. Each reportedly paid Mexican cartel smugglers $35,000 to be ferried to Mission, Texas, on Tuesday.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — Police discovered an unidentified 4-year-old migrant child wandering the downtown streets Monday. An officer who first spotted the child says he was only able to provide his age by lifting four fingers when questioned. The child described to the officer how he was left alone in a commonly used local stash house.
The border crisis expanded to Florida in recent months as officials in the Miami Sector report a massive increase in migrant landings. During the first four months of FY23, Miami Sector agents encountered more migrants than for the entire FY22.
More than 40 percent of last week’s known border crossers in the Del Rio Sector simply got away into the U.S. interior. Nearly 8,600 successfully avoided apprehension during the past two weeks, according to a Border Patrol official.
A Mexican politician from the border state of Nuevo Leon is demanding action from authorities regarding a cartel-controlled area that has become known as the “Highway of Death.” Gunmen have been able to operate with almost complete impunity robbing motorists, setting up checkpoints, kidnapping, and even killing.
Un juez de la Ciudad de México dictaminó que policías arrestaron ilegalmente a un presunto secuestrador y narcotraficante que es descrito como uno de los líderes del Cártel Unión Tepito. Al momento de su arresto, las autoridades encontraron más de 1,000 bolsitas de cocaína y marihuana.
A judge in Mexico City this week ruled that police officers illegally arrested an alleged kidnapper and drug trafficker who is described as one of the leaders of the Union Tepito Cartel. At the time of his arrest, authorities reportedly found more than 1,000 baggies of cocaine and marijuana.
Más allá de los hijos del Chapo Guzmán, en México existe una nueva generación de “Babynarcos” dispuestos a protagonizar los baños de sangre que sean necesarios para no perder el negocio y territorio heredado por sus padres. La edad y el género ya no es un problema en esta nueva era de los cárteles.
While the sons of the infamous drug lord El Chapo make headlines, there is a new generation of “Narco-Heirs” or Narco-Babies. Despite their younger ages, they are willing to cause bloodbaths to keep inherited turf and interests. In this new breed, gender and age do not matter.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers rescued a two-year-old migrant child following a high-speed pursuit near the border. The trooper arrested the driver and turned the migrants over to Border Patrol for processing.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced his appointment of a border czar to head Operation Lone Star. The announcement came on Monday during a press conference in the Rio Grande Valley.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of migrants wearing camouflage in the desert mountains of Arizona. A team of federal agencies worked together to find and apprehend the migrants.
Una búsqueda en una serie de fosas clandestinas que fueron descubiertas recientemente en el estado de Guanajuato ha llevado al descubrimiento de 14 cuerpos hasta el momento mientras que las autoridades continúan excavando. El descubrimiento se produce en un momento en que México continúa experimentando niveles crecientes de violencia relacionada al crimen organizado a pesar de la retórica del gobierno de que la seguridad está mejorando.
A search in a newly discovered clandestine grave site in central Mexico netted 14 bodies to date. The site discovery comes at a time when Mexico continues to experience rising levels of cartel violence.
U.S. Coast Guardsmen rescued nearly 300 migrants attempting to flee Haiti on a sailing vessel. Photos show the migrants packed on the deck of the overloaded boat.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrested an armed female for allegedly smuggling migrants after she crashed her vehicle and fled on foot. A pursuit in Zavala County, Texas, on January 25 led to the arrest of the Dallas-area woman, and her companion.
A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper arrested a Venezuelan migrant for allegedly smuggling a group of 28 migrants, including a juvenile into the interior of Texas. Dashcam video provided by DPS shows a high-speed pursuit in the overloaded van where the Venezuelan man attempted to avoid apprehension.
A journalist in Cancun, Mexico, survived a shooting attack after five gunmen attempted to kidnap him. The journalist is frequently targeted and threatened for his reporting. In October, unknown gunmen firebombed a delivery vehicle from the same news outlet he works for.
Two migrants died after a vehicle accident that occurred on a bridge in Texas Wednesday near Uvalde. The deceased migrants survived the crash but later died after jumping from the bridge. Authorities believe the migrants may have fallen after fleeing on foot to avoid arrest by pursuing law enforcement. Four other migrants survived the nearly 40-foot fall.
Un grupo de sicarios ejecuto a una joven que se había vuelto contra su organización criminal y comenzó a denunciar públicamente la complicidad de funcionarios del gobierno y capos de la droga a través de las redes sociales.
Cartel gunmen killed a young woman after she publicly denounced her drug trafficking activities and the complicit Mexican officials involved this week.
Swanton Sector Border Patrol officials report an increase in migrant apprehensions of nearly 743 percent in the first quarter of FY23 despite life-threatening weather conditions in the Canadian border region of Vermont and New York.
The Texas Facilities Commission awarded a $224 million contract to build nearly ten miles of 30-foot border wall segments on private or state-owned properties along the Rio Grande in Webb County.
Los traficantes de personas con nexos a los cárteles en México han ideado una forma más rápida y económica para trasladar a una gran cantidad de migrantes caribeños, principalmente de Haití, desde la Ciudad de México a la ciudad fronteriza de Reynosa. A través de una laguna burocrática y, en ocasiones, con la ayuda de funcionarios de inmigración mexicanos corruptos, los traficantes de personas pueden usar una aerolínea de bajo costo en México en lugar de autobuses o automóviles.
Cartel-connected human smugglers are using a faster and cheaper way to move primarily Haitian migrants from Mexico City to the border city of Reynosa. Using a bureaucratic loophole and sometimes corrupt immigration officials, smugglers are able to use low-cost airlines instead of ground transportation.
Authorities in the border state of Sonora were forced to change their story that extortion schemes were not a problem after new videos of cartel gunmen beating innocent victims surfaced recently. The violence is allegedly the result of victims not paying the Sinaloa Cartel for the right to work.
Los taxistas en la región turística de Cancún han comenzado a actuar como mafiosos en sus esfuerzos por mantener fuera a los conductores de Uber y servicios similares. Durante varios días, grupos de taxistas han agredido a conductores rivales, asustando a los turistas e incluso extorsionando a los choferes para dejarlos operar.
Taxi drivers in Cancun are acting like mobsters to keep rideshare drivers out of the market and are sometimes resorting to violence against gig workers.
Kinney County, Texas, Sheriff Brad Coe issued a plea for other law enforcement agencies to help with the continued flow of migrants through his county. The sheriff sent a letter to fellow sheriffs in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas asking for available resources to be sent immediately to Kinney County.
