North Carolina State broadcaster Gary Hahn will be reinstated following his suspension for a remark referencing “illegal aliens” that he made during the December 30 Duke’s Mayo Bowl Game between North Carolina State and Maryland.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested an armed human smuggler transporting six migrants near Sasabe, Arizona, shortly before the new year began. In addition, agents apprehended more than 400 migrants in large groups during the past week.
Three police officers, a detective, and two cartel gunmen died during a fierce shootout in Nuevo Leon Monday. The gunmen used .50 caliber rifles to ambush the officers during their patrol duties.
Cartel gunmen killed 8 victims and injured three others in a series of bar attacks on New Year’s Day in the coastal state of Veracruz. The violence comes as rival criminal organizations continue to fight for control of the region’s trafficking routes and shipping ports.
Cartel gunmen killed eight victims and injured three more during bar attacks on New Year’s Day in Veracruz. The violence comes as rival criminal organizations fight for control of the region’s trafficking routes and shipping ports.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 209,000 migrants over the last four months. This compares to almost 67,000 one year earlier.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — According to a source within Customs and Border Protection, the agency is experiencing a drastic, albeit likely brief slowdown in migrant border crossings in recent days. The unusual reductions have provided relief to temporary detention facilities in turn. The source says detention levels have dropped to 6,000 nationwide from a high of more than 15,000 in late November.
Altos funcionarios en el estado fronterizo de Tamaulipas se mantienen en silencio después de un tiroteo a gran escala en la ciudad fronteriza de Matamoros, donde una niña de dos años recibió un disparo, además, un oficial de policía y dos sicarios murieron. El aumento de la violencia se produce en un momento en que los funcionarios estatales han adoptado un enfoque de no confrontación al lidiar con los cárteles de la droga como una forma de disminuir la violencia.
Top officials in Tamaulipas are tight-lipped after a major shootout in the border city of Matamoros where a two-year-old girl was hit. A police officer and two cartel gunmen also died on New Year’s Day.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a Mexican national after finding him with five smuggled migrants on December 27. The incident began as Nogales police officers initiated a traffic stop on the suspected human smuggler’s SUV and called Border Patrol for assistance.
U.S. Border Patrol officials estimate 72,000 migrants got away without being apprehended after they illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a source operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. This adds to the 140,000 estimated got-aways during the first two months of the new fiscal year bringing the total to approximately 212,000.
Approximately 844,000 migrants were either apprehended after crossing the southwest border or were classified as “got-aways” during the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2023.
A human smuggler tried to escape Texas authorities on New Year’s Eve by leading them on a car chase at speeds exceeding 115 miles per hour. After deploying a tire deflation device, officers found two Honduran migrants stowed in the smuggler’s trunk.
At least 30 inmates escaped during a large-scale prison riot-turned-gun battle in the Mexican border city of Juarez, where 14 died on New Year’s Day. The fatal victims include prison guards and inmates.
U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 220,000 migrants who crossed the southwest border in December. The number of apprehended migrants sets a record for December and is the second-largest month since the Clinton administration. This brings the total apprehensions for the first quarter of FY23 to more than 631,000.
Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents experienced an increase in migrant apprehensions of nearly 800 percent during the first two months of the new fiscal year. During the last four months, the agents in this Canadian border sector apprehended more migrants than were apprehended in the entire FY22.
A radio announcer for the North Carolina State football team is suspended indefinitely after using the phrase “illegal aliens” during a score update about the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl game in El Paso. The City of El Paso is currently immersed in a mass migration crisis that left migrants sleeping on city streets during freezing weather conditions over the Christmas weekend.
Restaurant owners in the Mexican border city of Tijuana claim to be the target of threats and extortions at the hands of organized crime.
Dueños de restaurantes en Tijuana aseguran ser blanco de amenazas y extorsiones por parte del crimen organizado en la ciudad fronteriza de Tijuana.
Border Patrol agents in the five Texas-based sectors apprehended more than 266,000 migrants in the first two months of the new fiscal year. Nearly 107,000 of those entered through the El Paso Sector.
A cartel territorial dispute is believed to be the cause of a grenade attack at a cockfight attended by young children in Mexico.
Una facción del Cartel del Golfo de México ha iniciado un nuevo esfuerzo de expansión en una serie de territorios previamente controlados por sus rivales. Sin embargo, además del control de los corredores de droga, la organización criminal ha comenzado a tomar oficinas públicas y organizaciones profesionales para exigir extorsiones a los lugareños; Altos funcionarios del gobierno han estado haciendo la vista gorda ante los hechos a cambio de favores políticos del cártel.
A faction of the Gulf Cartel has kicked an expansion effort into territories previously held by their rivals in the border state of Tamaulipas. Beyond drug corridors, the criminal organization wants control of government offices and professional organizations to build extortion rackets. Meanwhile, top officials are turning a blind eye to the events in exchange for favors.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection contractors are erecting soft-sided detention centers to expand migrant processing capabilities in the nation’s busiest border sector. Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 106,000 migrants during the first two months of the new fiscal year.
The State of Texas expanded its use of shipping containers to aid in securing the border in El Paso by placing nearly a dozen containers along the Rio Grande in addition to more than a mile of razor-wire fencing.
A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper arrested an alleged human smuggler after finding 18 migrants locked inside a dump trailer in Kenedy County. The migrants in the tarp-covered trailer included a young child. Temperatures fell that morning to the low 20s.
Mexican authorities seized an unmarked helicopter which is believed to be the craft identified by Breitbart Texas in a cartel-connected politician’s escape from arrest.
EAGLE PASS, Texas — Breitbart Texas posted along the Rio Grande south of town and observed a single group of nearly 300 migrants emerge from the riverbank and surrender to Texas National Guardsmen and Border Patrol agents Wednesday. Two large groups of nearly 600 crossed the Rio Grande in the early morning.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether states can ask courts to preserve Title 42 border safeguards, leaving the policy in place for now.
While most families across the country celebrated the extended Christmas holiday weekend, members of the Texas National Guard built more than two miles of razor-wire border fencing near El Paso. Texas Governor Greg Abbott deployed the Guardsmen under Operation Lone Star to build the barriers after the City of El Paso declared a disaster as migrants surged across the border.
Una de las organizaciones criminales más violentas de México hizo gala de su poder al realizar un gran desfile navideño en el que entregaron juguetes y celebraron una fiesta en la capital de Jalisco a poca distancia de una estación de policía. Las autoridades mexicanas ya pidieron una investigación, sin embargo, esa organización criminal sigue siendo una de las más poderosas del mundo.
One of Mexico’s most violent cartels displayed its influence as it hosted a large Christmas parade and party in the capital of Jalisco, near a police station.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 1,100 migrants during a five-hour period Tuesday morning. The apprehensions took place in a small section of the border south of Eagle Pass. Agents apprehended more than 400 in a single group.
Presuntos miembros del Cartel De Sinaloa continúan haciendo alarde de sus actividades en las redes sociales, dándole al público una breve mirada dentro de su mundo. El evento más reciente fue esta semana cuando se compartió en redes sociales un breve videoclip tomado desde el interior de una cabina de un pequeño avión que volaba por México.
Cartel members are flaunting their activities on social media to offer insights into their world. On Christmas, a short video clip from inside a cockpit appears to show a small plane flying through Mexico.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a large group of 399 migrants into the Brownsville Station area of operations over the Christmas weekend.
Controversy is erupting in Mexico about a Supreme Court chief justice candidate who allegedly plagiarized her college thesis.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Army National Guardsmen are placing new fencing near local international ports of entry after the Christmas weekend.
A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper heard gunfire after a foot pursuit of migrants and a human smuggler onto a ranch near the border. The gunfire was heard after a high-speed chase on Christmas Eve.
Un coronel del ejército mexicano que ha estado desaparecido durante varios días después de haber sido secuestrado por sicarios, supuestamente se había hospedado en una zona turística que tiene un largo historial de ser utilizada por el Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación de México con fines de lavado de dinero.
