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Chicago once again boiled over this weekend with gang violence driven by the Mexican cartels and their drug trade. Forty were shot and four killed, including an 11-year-old girl. The girl, Shamiya Adams, was struck by a stray bullet that entered

Former US Border Patrol Deputy Chief Ronald Coburn reported that the southern border is seeing “the kind of chaos we saw along the border prior to 9/11” and that “one in five” illegal aliens today has a criminal record in

MCALLEN, Texas–A former drug dealer who had entered the country illegally asked for leniency claiming he had come to the U.S. to escape drug violence. “Things back home in Michoacán are really bad, the violence is really really bad,” Armando

According to the Huffington Post there are 8 “simple” reasons the U.S. is responsible for the current border crisis. Those reasons begin with a U.S. backed coup 1954 and end with a coup the U.S. had nothing to do with

MCALLEN, Texas–A federal judge sentenced a Texas sheriff to five years in prison for taking money from a South Texas drug lord linked to Mexican cartels. On Thursday morning, U.S. District Judge Micaela Alvarez delivered harsh words to former Hidalgo County

An intelligence assessment published last week found that a misunderstanding about U.S. immigration policy is a major driver of the current surge of child immigrants from Central America. The report, published July 7th by the El Paso Intelligence Center, was

MCALLEN, Texas — Drug cartels that profit from human smuggling, kidnapping, extortion, and murder-for-hire run a Mexican state that borders Texas, according to documents obtained by Breitbart Texas. A series of court records obtained by Breitbart Texas allege a direct

In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom” on Monday, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) said that the southern border is controlled by Mexican criminal organizations and not the United States.  Bridenstine stated “we don’t control the southern border of

For the last two years, Professor Lori Baker of Baylor University has been lending her expertise to helping identify the bodies of those who tried and failed to sneak into our country through the forbidden landscape at our southern border.

HOUSTON, Texas–As violence and cartel activity is becoming increasingly common near the border, citizen vigilante groups in Mexico–armed with rifles and machetes–are attempting to curb the crime on their own. The citizens, who come from all walks of life, formed the vigilante

Should an arsonist be granted money to repair and “deal with the crisis” he helped create after starting the fire in the first place? That is the question House Republicans should ask in response to President Obama’s request for $2

The Texas border region is engulfed in a full-blown humanitarian crisis measured in lost lives, unsafe communities and an overwhelmed infrastructure in danger of buckling under the flood of unaccompanied minors hailing largely from Central America. Despite President Obama’s threats

HOUSTON, Texas–As a never-ending flow of illegal immigrants continue to enter South Texas, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been transporting many of the foreigners to states around the country including California. California Assemblyman Tim Donnelly told Breitbart Texas that by releasing

An actor with a striking resemblance to President Barack Obama stars — and dies — in a new federal government commercial aimed at preventing and scaring Central American migrants from attempting to illegally enter the United States. The U.S. Customs

A Texas rancher who was inspecting some newly acquired land was shocked to discover a two-acre marijuana farm operating in an isolated corner of his property. Chambers County, Texas sheriffs were called after the rancher found the pot farm on

Thursday at a field hearing in Texas on the surge of unaccompanied minors at the U.S.-Mexico border, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) said his message to Obama was: “Secure this border, Mr. President.” Perry laid out the national security risks caused

Thursday at a Texas field hearing on the surge of unaccompanied minors at the border, Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX) said the illegal immigrant children currently in the holding facilities should be detained and then returned to

I’ve had it with the media and the left using these “children” as human shields to protect the human-trafficker-in-chief, President Barack Obama. We don’t have a “humanitarian crisis” on our borders; we have a government-created crisis that no one wants

A member of Occupy San Diego spoke out today against anti-illegal immigration protesters, following a Wednesday Border Angels press conference, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News. Laura Cole said she is a former Occupy member, Quaker, and part of

Government sources told Breitbart News there is a “great uptick” of Special Interest Aliens (SIA) crossing the border since the surge of illegal immigrants have been crossing the southern border. SIAs are individuals entering the United States from foreign countries with

HOUSTON, Texas–Earlier this week Border Patrol agents in Laredo, Texas seized almost 1,500 pounds of marijuana from a vehicle disguised as an oil-field truck. Agents were initially alerted of the vehicle–which was near a ranch in Encinal, Texas at the

A former Mexican cartel soldier who turned against the narco terrorists and joined the burgeoning Mexican militia movement has been found shot and tortured along with his wife and children in the Mexican state of Michoacan. José Santiago Valencia Sandoval

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Many of the unaccompanied minors flooding across the border are refugees fleeing violence in their Central American home countries and should be treated as such, according to Texas Republican Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. “Yes, in some instances

The presidents of the unions representing Border Patrol agents and Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents will argue that current government policies have led to the massive influx of unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors and family units at a House Judiciary Committee

Fernando “El Ingeniero” Sánchez Arellano, head of the once-powerful Arellano Félix Organization (a.k.a. the Tijuana cartel) has been captured, according to both US law enforcement and Mexican government sources. As of 9:00pm Pacific time on June 23, this information had not

Many of the thousands of illegal immigrant children and teens crossing the United States border are carrying deadly contagious diseases that could easily create a major health crisis in this country, doctors say. In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News,

Another business climate survey was just released, and, in what won’t be a shock for regular Breitbart readers, it assigns Texas a grade of A+ for small business friendliness with California netting an F. What makes this survey unique is

Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson criticized the “woefully lacking” media coverage of the border crisis in an interview on Laura Ingraham radio show on Thursday. Ingraham asked Attkisson to grade the journalism covering the unfolding crisis at the southern border,

(Reuters) Mexican authorities said on Wednesday they had found the remains of at least 28 people in a mass grave at a ranch in the eastern state of Veracruz, which has been wracked by violence between feuding drug gangs. In

On Wednesday’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL) went head to head with show host Bill O’Reilly over how to handle the influx of Central American youths at the U.S.-Mexico border. O’Reilly posed the question to Gutiérrez as how

HOUSTON, Texas–State Senator Dan Patrick (R-Houston) called on the current leadership of the Texas government to provide emergency funding to secure the Texas/Mexico border. Patrick, who recently won the Republican nomination for Lt. Governor, reiterated Texas Department of Public Safety

Mexican drug cartels, such as the Zetas and the Gulf Cartel, are supplementing their incomes by selling stolen gasoline. At $0.40 a liter, gasoline is cheaper for residents of Tamaulipas than a can of Coca-Cola if they buy from the

There are tens of thousands of children languishing on our southern border because Mexican drug cartels are brilliant strategists and DC politicians are excellent enablers. Nine years ago, while making BORDER, we filmed the arrests of children being smuggled across

Michigan Republican Rep. Candice Miller is calling on President Obama to dispatch the National Guard to the border to aid the U.S. Border Patrol, currently overwhelmed with the large influx of unaccompanied illegal immigrant children. “Rather than carrying out their

On Saturday, a coalition of grassroots conservatives led by TEA party coordinators beat back the so-called “Texas Solution” at the Texas GOP convention held in Fort Worth. The margin of victory was a spread of slightly more than 1,000 votes