Mexico’s top diplomat, Roberto Velasco Alvarez, announced a series of legal actions against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and private migrant detention centers in response to the deaths of migrants in custody, as well as during raids.
Mexico’s top diplomat, Roberto Velasco Alvarez, announced a series of legal actions against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and private migrant detention centers in response to the deaths of migrants in custody, as well as during raids.
Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced that her government is looking into taking legal action against agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the latest shooting incident in Texas.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Miami, Florida intercepted 22 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride at an air cargo warehouse near Miami International Airport. The officers are part of a special operation targeting narcotics smuggling activity during the FIFA World Cup 2026.
Fuerzas militares mexicanas abatieron a un sicario e hirieron a otros tres durante un intenso enfrentamiento en la capital del estado fronterizo de Tamaulipas. El choque armado ocurre en un momento en que cárteles rivales continúan disputándose el control de la región.
Mexican military forces killed one cartel gunman and injured three others during a fierce clash in the capital of the border state of Tamaulipas. The clash comes at a time when rival cartels continue to fight for control of the region.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Houston report that a criminal illegal alien who is described as an aggravated felon barricaded himself inside a house in a Houston suburb to avoid arrest.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Mexican illegal alien in Houston on Tuesday. The shooting came during a targeted enforcement operation where the Mexican national allegedly attempted to flee and then reportedly attempted to run over an officer with his vehicle.
Police in the Alamo City continue to investigate a shooting that killed one teen and injured five others on the city’s East Side late Saturday. According to the San Antonio Police, an 18-year-old man was killed after the shooting began at around 10:45 p.m.
The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas charged five members of the Tren de Aragua (TdA) terrorist gang with kidnapping and murder following an investigation that took place in Texas. Three more were indicted in an Illinois kidnapping/murder incident. The TdA gang members entered the U.S. illegally during the Biden border crisis.
A Mexican Navy infantryman died, and two others sustained serious injuries while providing security to a group of mothers who were searching rural areas for cartel mass graves.
Thousands of patriotic San Antonians lined the downtown streets near the historic Alamo to witness the Stars & Stripes Independence Day Parade despite temperatures expected to near triple digits on Saturday. The parade featured traditional Fourth of July floats, Military Bands, and some Tex-Mex performances, adding to the patriotic displays.
Several dozen protesters from the Party of Socialism and Liberation and a fringe communist “Right to Rebel” group gathered in the Alamo City to show their support for Cuba on the eve of America’s 250th Anniversary. The protesters chanted pro-communist slogans and offered Marxist literature to passing tourists just feet from the famous San Antonio Riverwalk.
A commercial truck driver with a Massachusetts license reportedly struck and killed a Pennsylvania State Police trooper this week in a fiery crash on Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County. The driver is reported to be a Haitian national illegally present in the United States.
The city of Kerrville, Texas, will celebrate America’s 250th birthday with a music festival, children’s activities, and one of the Texas Hill Country’s largest fireworks displays on Saturday evening. The holiday will begin, however, with a much more somber tribute to the lives lost one year ago in one of the deadliest flooding events in Texas history.
Two high-ranking cartel lieutenants who are part of a criminal organization that masquerades as a self-defense group are now facing terrorism related charges, as well as drug trafficking charges, in a U.S. federal court. While the two men are criminally indicted and wanted in the United States, they are currently believed to be in Mexico, where they enjoy the protection of the terrorist organization known as Carteles Unidos.
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum demanded that the U.S. government show proof after the U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctioned multiple cartel businesses that allegedly funded political campaigns in Mexico.
The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is reporting publicly that Ukraine is helping Mexican drug cartels move into the European market through its poorly guarded borders. The move is aimed at helping drug cartels move into new markets in response to increased enforcement and operations in Latin America by the U.S. government.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at ports of entry in Texas have seized more than 9,000 pounds of methamphetamine with a street value of more than $80 million in just four incidents during the month of June. The thwarted cartel smuggling attempts occurred in Laredo, El Paso, and Pharr, Texas.
Mexican federal authorities re-arrested a top cartel boss who used his political connections and social activism to hide his criminal empire. The cartel figure was arrested in 2022, but with the help of state officials, was able to be released from prison until his capture this weekend.
People in Mexico are rallying behind an unknown vigilante who has taken to the streets, hunting down thieves and leaving them taped up for authorities. Mexican authorities have already begun investigating the incidents, aiming to arrest the vigilante.
The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 on Monday that law enforcement’s use of “geofence” data constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. The ruling effectively ends unauthorized digital dragnets by applying protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights.
A child-predator case brought by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) against an Indiana couple concluded with sentences totaling more than 100 years for the pair arrested and charged with crimes against children. In the latest sentence in the case, a federal judge handed 35-year-old Cecil Spangler of Roanoke, Indiana, a 60-year sentence in federal prison. Spangler’s partner, Anna Fleishman, was sentenced to 50 years as part of the same case in May.
A teenage girl who is accused of brutally stabbing a mother to death at a Sonic in Del Rio, Texas, was seen smiling at a camera as officers took her into custody. Two sisters and another woman were arrested in connection with the alleged murder.
Authorities in Mexico arrested a cartel lieutenant in connection with allegations that he ordered the kidnapping and murder of a female journalist in Mexico.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar toured portions of the southwest border near Brownsville, Texas, on Tuesday alongside Acting Deputy Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Ron Vitiello. Edgar took to social media after the visit, touting the impact of infrastructure projects funded by the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) on border security.
A Texas woman has been arrested and charged with a gruesome shooting and stabbing death in San Angelo. Police allege 31-year-old Audrey Troncoso shot, stabbed, and dismembered a man on Tuesday and later hid the body in a dumpster.
A motorist in Los Cabos plowed through a crowd of revelers that had blocked the streets and were shaking his vehicle on Wednesday night following Mexico’s victory over the Czech Republic.
A cartel-connected Texas border county official who has been on the run since 2013 was arrested in Mexico and is expected to return to Texas this week. There, he will face state child sexual abuse charges.
A longtime Louisiana sheriff abruptly resigned Wednesday after pleading guilty to a drunken steakhouse assault that left a local podcaster hospitalized. The sheriff admitted he choked, beat, and threatened to kill the often-critical podcaster during a late‑May attack captured on surveillance video and detailed by multiple eyewitnesses.
Chief U.S. District Court Judge Alia Moses handed down stiff sentences to a brother and sister involved in a large-scale illegal alien-smuggling organization, which the Department of Homeland Security has linked to the Cartel De Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG). The pair was sentenced on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in the Western District of Texas.
The legislature of the Mexican state of Sinaloa halted a petition filed by the governor requesting the payment of a pension to a retired police chief who is a fugitive wanted by the United States Department of Justice.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at a Laredo, Texas, Port of Entry stopped smugglers from entering the United States with more than 1,100 pounds of methamphetamine. The agency determined the seizure had a street value of more than $10.1 million.
The governor of Sinaloa filed a letter to the state legislature in an attempt to help a fugitive police chief who is wanted by the U.S. government on drug trafficking conspiracy charges get his pension while he continues to live in her state.
Border Security and Immigration policies put in place by the Trump administration are impacting apprehensions in the nation’s busiest northern border sector. Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended just over 100 illegal aliens in May. This is down 96 percent from the Biden-era peak two years ago.
A Mexican border state governor sparked a new controversy over the weekend when she posted a video asking Mexico’s federal government to stop hiding behind claims of sovereignty and surrender various politicians wanted by the U.S. government on drug trafficking conspiracy charges.
Authorities in Mexico are keeping quiet about the discovery of a mass grave with four bodies, including two men from Chicago who were reported missing in May.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum fired back at U.S. President Donald J. Trump over his cartel-related statements at the G7 Summit. Trump claimed that Mexico was under the control of drug cartels. In her retort to Trump, Sheinbaum claimed he was misinformed and tried to defuse the situation, saying she did not have to enter into a controversy each time he made a comment.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics provided to Breitbart Texas show that total apprehensions at the southwest border in May were lower than the single-day rates at the peak of the Biden border crisis. As Border Patrol apprehensions remain under 10,000 for the month, CBP tells Breitbart the release of illegal aliens at the border to pursue asylum remains at zero for the 13th consecutive month.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials revealed that 735 criminal illegal aliens arrested in the Houston area last month accounted for more than 1,700 criminal convictions — with nearly 1,200 involving violent crimes or threats to public safety. The arrests included murderers, rapists, child predators, arsonists, drug traffickers, and members of MS‑13, Surenos 13, 18th Street, Tango Blast, and other brutal gangs.
A federal judge sentenced a Guatemalan illegal alien to 78 months in federal prison for firearms trafficking after an investigation revealed a scheme to move firearms from Alabama to Maryland. Lester Ramos-Perez, a 29-year-old from Guatemala who is illegally present in the United States, was part of a broader conspiracy to move the weapons, according to court records.
