The first wrongful death lawsuit connected to the Independence Day Texas flooding has been filed against HTR TX Hill Country Resort, a luxury RV park and campground on the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas. The suit is on behalf of the family of Jayda Floyd, a 22-year-old Texas woman who died during the deadly floods in Kerr County.
A former Sinaloa Cartel operator turned social media influencer died Saturday evening after a lone gunman barged into his home and shot him multiple times. The influencer’s murder is believed to be tied to the ongoing turf war between rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, which has spilled onto social media and already led to the murder of at least six influencers.
A suspected illegal alien was killed after darting onto a freeway to avoid contact with federal immigration officers conducting an enforcement operation at a Home Depot store in Monrovia on Thursday, according to city officials. The man was struck by a passing motorist and taken to a hospital, where he later died.
A recently extradited cartel boss from Mexico, who is facing numerous federal drug trafficking charges in Virginia, was a favored government contractor in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas. The state is controlled by the controversial governor from the MORENA party, Americo Villarreal.
Authorities in the southern part of Mexico arrested the entire police force of a small city over allegations that they were working for drug cartels. The raid comes at a time when Mexico continues to experience high levels of cartel violence nationwide.
A twice-deported illegal alien from Mexico injured a federal agent after crashing into federal vehicles, injuring one of the agents, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials stated. The man entered the U.S. twice in October 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and was arrested this week after attempting to flee from arrest.
The U.S. government is offering up to $26 million in rewards for various leaders of the Mexican terrorist criminal organization Carteles Unidos. Some of those cartel leaders falsely claim to be leaders of self-defense movements.
Federal authorities in Nebraska carried out a series of raids, leading to the arrest of a group of Indian nationals who were allegedly engaged in an elaborate scheme involving sex, labor, and drug trafficking. In addition to multiple businesses owned by the suspected traffickers in Nebraska, the scheme also involved companies in Georgia and Texas.
Mexico’s government has once again sent over two dozen high-level cartel operators to the U.S. in an attempt to show cooperation with the Trump administration. The move comes just days after U.S. President Donald J. Trump threatened Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum with tariffs as a result of her country not having done enough to fight cartels.
U.S. prosecutors in the Southern District of Texas announced the unsealing of a federal indictment that accuses Mexican nationals legally living in Houston of bribing top Mexican government officials in order to get contracts with that country’s state-owned oil companym PEMEX.
The Texas Supreme Court set an “expedited” schedule for briefs to be filed by the parties involved in Governor Greg Abbott’s lawsuit to vacate the House seat of Rep. Gene Wu. The schedule requires all briefs to be filed and
A group of gunmen fired indiscriminately into a bar in central Mexico in a terror-style attack as part of an apparent fight between criminal organizations.
A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against a Paramount, California, man suspected of throwing pieces of cinderblock that struck and injured a Border Patrol agent during an anti-ICE protest in June. The suspect indicted in the assault is now facing a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
A group of activists who search for mass graves and cartel abduction victims reported the discovery of a killing field and incineration site that was being used once again by the Gulf Cartel to murder and dispose of their victims. The killing site is just a short distance from the Texas border and an international port of entry, and had been previously discovered in 2024 before the Gulf Cartel began using it again.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum publicly defended Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, who has been formally accused by the U.S. government of being the leader of the narco-terrorist organization Cartel De Los Soles and has a $50 million reward offered for his capture.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott traveled to Ingram, Texas, to deliver $25,000 checks from country-western legend George Strait to families devastated by the deadly Independence Day Hill Country flooding. The checks delivered by Abbott on Saturday were part of the more than $7 million raised during Strait’s benefit concert on July 27. Aid and other support for Hill Country communities is being delayed by Texas House Democrats who broke quorum to stop the state’s congressional redistricting plan.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a Guatemalan Illegal Alien in Rhode Island one day after local police released him. The illegal alien “got away” was charged with paying to have sex with a minor and released on bond despite his status.
East Texas police officers arrested a three-time deported criminal alien gang member after he led officers on a high-speed pursuit through two counties. The pursuit ended when the driver, a Mexican national illegally present in the United States, lost control of his vehicle and crashed.
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Houston arrested more than 350 illegal alien gang members during the first six months of the Trump administration. The group of violent offenders has cumulatively been convicted of nearly 1,700 crimes.
A Texas district court judge granted a Temporary Restraining Order against Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke to stop what Attorney General Ken Paxton described as a “misleading financial-influence scheme to fund runaway Democrats who fled Texas to break quorum. ” The order stops O’Rourke and his political group, Powered By People, from fundraising and expending funds to support Democrat House Representatives who fled the state to prevent the passage of congressional redistricting in the special session called by Governor Greg Abbott.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed a lawsuit on Friday to pursue judicial declarations that 13 seats held by runaway House Democrats have been vacated due to continued unlawful absences. The move comes after many House Democrats refused orders to return to the Texas Capitol to resume their duties in the called special session.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum claimed U.S. troops will not be entering her country to fight drug cartels. The claim comes just hours after a report pointed to U.S. President Donald Trump having signed a secret order directing the U.S. military to move against drug cartels.
As the 1 p.m. deadline for a quorum call came and went, Texas Speaker of the House Dustin Burrows announced a series of actions to hit House Democrats in their pocketbooks.
The FBI announced the arrest of a sheriff from Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on charges of extortion. The arrest of the immigration sanctuary county sheriff follows an investigation into allegations that he extorted $50,000 from a Boston-based cannabis company.
The deadline for jet-setting Texas House Democrats to return to the Capitol and resume their duties looms at 1 p.m. CDT on Friday. Texas officials warn that if the legislators do not return to work, their seats will be vacated,
A report in the New York Times states that President Donald Trump secretly signed an order authorizing the use of military force against “certain Latin American drug cartels.” These cartels were previously designated by President Trump and the U.S. Department of
Harris County Commissioners Court censured County Judge Lina Hidalgo following an outrageous rant and political stunt. The judge appeared unhinged as she interrupted and argued with the county commissioners, refusing to follow the rules of decorum.
At least 16 illegal aliens were surprised and arrested as a group of Border Patrol agents emerged from a Penske rental cargo truck in an early Wednesday morning raid. The raid took place at a Los Angeles Home Depot store near MacArthur Park.
Chaofeng Ge, a 32-year-old citizen of China, was pronounced dead at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, after jailers found him hanging by the neck in a shower room. Ge was facing removal from the United States after his conviction for charges related to a credit card fraud scheme earlier this year.
A state judge in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas ordered the release of a female underboss with the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas. The woman is accused of ordering the murder of a top state prosecutor and four of his staffers in 2017.
Dean Cain, the actor who played Superman on the TV series “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” claimed on Wednesday that he joined U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)to “help save America.” On Thursday, ICE officials confirmed Cain will take the oath to serve as an honorary officer next month..
The U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned three top Los Zetas leaders, as well as a recording artist who not only praised them in his songs but was also allegedly using the music business to launder funds for the criminal organization. One of the newly sanctioned leaders is a former Tamaulipas state police officer who secretly worked as a cartel boss while carrying a badge.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the investigation into whether Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke’s political group’s contributions to the House Democratic Caucus members are breaking the law. The investigation could lead to bribery charges if the State can prove the group is paying legislators not to exercise their vote on the measure to redistrict Texas’s congressional seats.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agents and their facilities continue to come under attack by radical anti-immigration enforcement activists. On Saturday, the ICE Yakima Field Office was damaged by a rock thrower, and parts of the facility compound were set on fire in an act of arson.
Governor Greg Abbott filed a lawsuit Tuesday night with the Texas Supreme Court seeking to begin the process for the removal of House Democrat Caucus Chairman Gene Wu and others. The Chairman, along with most of his Democrat House colleagues, fled the state to block a quorum in protest of the GOP’s efforts to carry out congressional seat redistricting.
A squad of gunmen believed to be with the Gulf Cartel shot and killed a top Mexican federal prosecutor during a brazen attack in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. The attackers used grenades and automatic weapons. The gunmen managed to escape with complete impunity as Mexican government officials try to claim the region is safe and work to contain the public opinion fallout.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in San Diego re-arrested a British illegal alien after “pro-illegal alien activists” helped him escape from detention. The British national has prior charges and convictions related to drug and weapons possession, officials reported.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers placed immigration detainers on six criminal aliens arrested as part of a multiagency sting operation in Florida targeting child sex predators. One of the criminal aliens arrested was a University of Florida student on a visa who, along with the other defendants, allegedly planned to meet with and sexually abuse children ages 13-15.
Governor Greg Abbott (R) ordered Texas Rangers to begin an investigation into the House Democrats who fled the state to break quorum over the proposed congressional redistricting. He ordered the state’s top law enforcement agency to investigate “potential violations of Texas law.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the arrest of what he called the “Delinquent House Democrats” after the legislators failed to return to the Capitol as ordered on Sunday. The governor ordered Texas Department of Public Safety troopers to “locate, arrest, and return to the House chamber any member who has abandoned their duty to Texans.”
