Video reports from El Paso, Texas, indicate that a record-setting large group of more than 1,000 migrants crossed the border overnight from Mexico. Border Patrol agents reportedly have more than 5,000 in custody with nowhere to place new migrant arrivals.
News outlets in Mexico and some in the U.S. are pushing conspiracy theories about a Mexican drug lord jailed in Florida had been mysteriously released. “La Barbie,” who remains in U.S. custody, is not scheduled for release until 2056.
Local officials celebrated the arrival of a contingent of more than 100 Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol troopers at a luncheon held for law enforcement officers and first responders on Friday. Constable Rene Maldonado requested Texas Governor Greg Abbot deploy the contingent of troopers to the area. According to the Constable, the arrival of the troopers significantly reduced the migrant smuggling activity on Interstate 35 and local highways.
Boat landings of migrants along the Florida coast continue at a rapid rate. Late last week, Miami Sector Border Patrol agents teamed up with other law enforcement partners to interdict multiple boat landings leading to the arrests of 13 migrants from multiple nations.
Un funcionario mexicano ligado al Cartel Del Golfo quien fue objeto de una operación policial logró evadir su captura en un helicóptero sin números y sin registro. Durante su escape, miembros del CDG hicieron una serie de amenazas de bomba contra varios edificios gubernamentales, incluida una escuela y un hospital; la evacuación provocó la muerte de dos pacientes.
A cartel-connected Mexican official who was the target of a police operation evaded arrest by flying away in an unregistered helicopter with no tail numbers. During the escape, cartel members called a series of bomb threats to various government buildings including a school and a hospital leading to the death of two patients.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 320 migrants along the border wall near Lukeville, Arizona in three separate groups. The apprehensions of these migrants from 17 different nations came as President Joe Biden prepared to visit Arizona but skip the border region.
A single group consisting of more than 700 migrants crossed the Rio Grande into Eagle Pass, Texas, and quickly surrendered to authorities. The group of mostly Cuban migrants entered the United States shortly before dawn on Thursday and were arrested by Border Patrol agents just north of the city. According to a source within CBP, the group is the largest single group of migrants to surrender at Eagle Pass.
Seven cartel gunmen and a Mexican Army soldier died during a fierce firefight with military forces in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. The deadly clash is the second large-scale gun battle in a span of 15 days to spread terror in the Mexican border city.
A naturalized U.S. citizen born in Iran planned to blow up a school in Amarillo, Texas, federal authorities revealed this week. At the time of his arrest, the man had several explosive devices and a suicide vest in his possession.
Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents rescued migrants in New York and Vermont from dangerous weather conditions after they entered the U.S. from Canada. One of the incidents involved a migrant family including small children.
Una turba en México persiguió a dos sicarios que acababan de matar a un político local. La turba logró capturar a uno de los pistoleros a quien golpearon y desnudaron antes de colgarlo de un árbol, mientras la policía local observaba.
A lynch mob in Mexico targeted two gunmen who had just killed a local politician in recent days. The mob managed to capture one of the gunmen who they beat and stripped before hanging him from a tree as local police watched.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers assigned to Operation Lone Star are making headway in reducing the number of migrant got-aways making their way into the U.S. interior. Troopers track down migrants making their way through ranches located as far as 80-100 miles away from the Mexican border in addition to those being smuggled in vehicles, rail cars, and tractor-trailers.
Mientras miles de migrantes continúan llegando a la frontera sur de México en su camino hacia la frontera con Estados Unidos, los funcionarios de inmigración mexicanos han estado fabricando y vendiendo tarjetas de asilo con fines de lucro.
As thousands of migrants continue to arrive at Mexico’s southern border bound for the U.S., immigration officials have been making and selling asylum cards for profit.
A West Texas school district superintendent apparently committed suicide after his arrest for allegedly placing an electronic recording device in the locker room of visiting girls’ basketball team. The now-suspended superintendent of the Seagraves Independent School District was released on bond after his arrest.
A Border Patrol agent died in an all-terrain vehicle accident near McAllen, Texas, Wednesday morning. The agent was tracking a group of suspected migrants away from the border. Raul Ortiz, Chief of the United States Border Patrol, said the agent’s coworkers located the unresponsive body and initiated lifesaving efforts.
Un sicario de alto rango del Cártel de Sinaloa es directamente responsable del secuestro, tortura y asesinato de una mujer con 8 meses de embarazo. El cruento asesinato y varios otros asesinatos de alto impacto en el estado fronterizo de Nuevo León están ligados a este sicario y su célula.
A high-ranking enforcer for the Sinaloa Cartel is directly responsible for the kidnapping, torture, and murder of a woman who was 8 months pregnant at the time. The gruesome case and others like it in the border state of Nuevo Leon link back to this operative’s cell of hitmen, say authorities.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 10,000 migrants during the past week. Officials estimate more than 4,000 more got away without being apprehended.
Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents experienced an increase of nearly 484 percent in the number of migrants apprehended in the first two months of the new fiscal year. In October and November this year, agents apprehended approximately 473 migrants compared to only 81 apprehensions during the same period last year.
Four migrants were killed after being ejected from a vehicle fleeing Texas Department of Public Safety troopers near Brackettville, Texas, Tuesday.
A newly unsealed indictment revealed how associates of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel have been able to establish a monopoly over legal commerce on one of the international trade bridges connecting Tamaulipas and Texas. Cartel associates have robbed, threatened, kidnapped, and killed those who refused to follow their commerce rules.
A Border Patrol agent in South Texas rescued a young deer trapped in a fence along a ranch in Brooks County. The spike buck managed to get his head through the fence before being trapped by his antler.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 420 migrants who crossed the border near La Grulla, Texas, during the first four days of December. The three groups consisted of 103 family units, 56 unaccompanied children, and 261 single adults.
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents encountered two groups of migrants along the border wall near Lukeville, Arizona, after they crossed the border from Mexico. Elsewhere in the sector, agents interdicted two other human smuggling incidents. Tucson Sector Chief Patrol Agent
Mexican authorities carried out raids in the coastal state of Sinaloa, one of the country’s main drug-producing and drug-trafficking areas. They seized more than 32,000 fentanyl pills, other drugs, weapons, and lab equipment last week.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Breitbart Texas posted at the municipal Migrant Resource Center and spoke to Yunior Rangel, a Venezuelan migrant who recently crossed the border at Eagle Pass, Texas. On a brisk Saturday morning, Yunior shared his story and a short video chronicling his journey into Panama from Colombia and through the Darien Gap.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A family of Ecuadorian migrants spoke to Breitbart Texas outside the local Migrant Resource Center and recounted their crossing into El Paso before being shuffled by federal officials to Laredo and then San Antonio. The two adults and two children say they initially crossed into the United States from Juarez, expecting to be released in El Paso.
Border Patrol agents in Robstown, Texas along with local law enforcement authorities discovered 25 pounds of liquid fentanyl hidden in a specialized compartment inside a vehicle’s gas tank. Officials say this quantity of liquid fentanyl is enough to kill a population of 5.665 million people — more than double the population of the city of Houston.
A borough in Mexico City directly responded to a video where the hyperviolent La Familia Michoacana Cartel announced its presence in the metropolitan area. Cartel members claimed they would be spreading out to search for their rivals. Authorities deployed 200 officers to the streets and published a video announcing the security operation.
Una delegación de la Ciudad de México respondió directamente a un video donde el hiperviolento Cártel La Familia Michoacana anunciaba que había llegado a la zona metropolitana y se dispersaría en busca de sus rivales. Las autoridades desplegaron 200 policías a las calles y publicaron un video anunciando el operativo de seguridad.
Mexican authorities seized a shipment of more than 660 pounds of fentanyl pills inside a shipment of coconuts being shipped toward the border with Arizona. Cartel drug smugglers packaged the deadly pills inside individual coconuts that were mixed in the shipment.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the deployment of ten M113 armored personnel carriers to the state’s southern border with Mexico. The action by the Texas governor is in response to the federal government’s anticipated ending of the Title 42 migrant expulsion protocol and the expected increase in border crossings.
A Mexican journalist claims federal authorities are refusing to investigate her complaints about intimidation and attempts at censorship by government officials in Mexico City. The allegations of censorship by high-ranking government officials come at a time when several press freedom organizations continue to label Mexico as one of the deadliest countries for journalists.
Apenas dos meses después de que un nuevo gobernador asumiera el cargo en el estado fronterizo de Tamaulipas, su capital se ha convertido en la ciudad más mortal de la región. Desde octubre, ha habido seis asesinatos y numerosos ataques con arma de fuego en Ciudad Victoria, superando incluso a otras ciudades del estado, mientras cárteles rivales continúan librando feroces guerras territoriales.
Two months after a new governor took office in Tamaulipas, its capital has become the border state’s deadliest city. There have been six murders and numerous shootings in Ciudad Victoria since October as rival cartels fight fierce turf wars.
A senior source within Customs and Border Protection tells Breitbart Texas that the Department of Homeland Security is not engaged in any substantive planning to confront the expected surge in migration once Title 42 is lifted per court order. Meanwhile, the source says Mexican immigration authorities are already at work to dismantle migrant camps set up along the border.
Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 206,000 migrants who crossed the border between ports of entry in November. This represents an increase of nearly 21 percent over the record-setting 167,000 migrants apprehended in November 2021.