The threat of cartel drone incursions along the U.S.-Mexico border, estimated at 40,000 to 60,000 incidents per year, was largely ignored under the Biden Administration. The February 10 airspace shutdown over El Paso underscores the serious challenges the Trump administration now faces as it finally gives the drone threats to the homeland the urgent attention they deserve.
An internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo proposes a sweeping “detention reengineering” initiative aimed at fixing the system’s most chronic failures.
U.S. Representative Tony Gonzales (R-TX) says there is much work to be done to hone Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) defenses along the U.S.-Mexico border in the wake of a federal shutdown of airspace in portions of his district on Tuesday evening. Gonzales told Breitbart Texas he’s working to remedy the situation through funding and education.
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has debunked a hoax spread by disinformation that claimed major highways in and out of El Paso would be closed for a ten-day period. The time frame cited in the fake correspondence matches the duration of a temporary flight restriction issued by the Federal Aviation Administration in the area related to a cartel drone incursion into the El Paso metropolitan area.
A recent cartel operation sent drones from Mexico into the United States, triggering a national security alert that temporarily shut down the airspace around El Paso, Texas, and Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum revealed that she has not received any information about cartel drones flying into U.S. airspace from Mexico.
A cartel drone incursion over El Paso prompted the FAA’s unprecedented national‑defense airspace shutdown over El Paso and eastern New Mexico, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. The incident raises new questions about cross‑border threats as federal agencies remain silent on the details.
President Donald Trump signed a bill, authored by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), into law that directs the U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs to exhume and remove the remains of Sergeant Fernando V. Cota, an alleged serial murderer and convicted rapist, from its sacred resting place. Cota, a Vietnam veteran, was interred at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in 1984.
A migrant detention facility of historic proportions is scheduled to open on Sunday in El Paso, Texas.
The Trump administration is awarding $1.26 billion to build the nation’s largest deportation detention center at Fort Bliss.
The Catholic bishop of the El Paso diocese is joining an anti-Trump protest to denounce the president’s “immoral” immigration policies.
Mexican officials teamed up with U.S. Border Patrol to locate another cross-border smuggling tunnel. Officials report the finding of a tunnel on Tuesday near the Stanton-Lerdo Port of Entry in El Paso.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in riot gear shut down the international bridge to Mexico moments before President Donald Trump took the oath of office. During his inaugural address, the president said he would declare a state of emergency along the U.S.-Mexico border and ordered the end of the Biden-era CBP One immigration app.
Authorities in Mexico discovered a new tunnel believed to be used by cartel members to smuggle migrants into El Paso, Texas.
Border Patrol agents arrested a group of Special Interest Aliens after they crossed the border from Mexico into Texas last week. The group included two Iranian nationals and two Egyptian migrants.
A group of unidentified gunmen shot and wounded a Venezuelan migrant during a failed kidnapping attempt at the Mexico-Texas border.
A North Dakota police chief says he cannot get help from the Biden administration regarding criminal activity involving Tren de Aragua gang members. North Dakota is now the 17th state to report Tren de Aragua gang crime.
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel questioned the findings of a CBP internal investigation concerning a whistleblower complaint that, among other allegations, the Deming New Mexico Air Unit was prevented from responding to emergency calls, resulting in several deaths. The deaths included one migrant and a Border Patrol agent who died in July 2020. After investigating the matter, the Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) ruled the allegations were unsubstantiated.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized approximately 11,000 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition being smuggled into the United States from Mexico.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrested more than 20 suspected Tren de Aragua gang members. The members of the violent Venezuelan gang are charged with a variety of state crimes, including human smuggling, prostitution, and drug possession in connection with operations at the Gateway Hotel in El Paso, Texas.
A middle school math teacher in El Paso, Texas, is accused of sexually grooming a 12-year-old girl, and has been arrested twice.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott designated the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang as a foreign terrorist organization on Monday. The move gives Texas law enforcement officials additional tools and resources to attack the gang and “disrupt their criminal operations and deny their foothold in the state,” the governor stated.
A Texas judge shut down a hotel in the border city of El Paso following reports from city officials regarding criminal activity involving the Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang. City officials complained in a lawsuit against the owners of the Gateway Hotel after responding to nearly 700 calls for service to the address.
Federal immigration authorities in Mexico discovered 63 migrants concealed inside a tractor-trailer at a military checkpoint just 30 miles from El Paso, Texas. The migrants were discovered on Friday during joint enforcement operations involving the military and Mexico’s National Institute of Migration (INM).
Two illegal aliens, charged with murdering 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston, Texas, are not yet eligible for the death penalty.
A 71-year-old beauty pageant contestant has made history as the oldest woman to participate in the Miss Texas USA competition.
A Texas man died, and his wife was injured when they were electrocuted in a jacuzzi at a resort in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, on Tuesday.
In a setback to the prosecution of migrants involved in a massive border breach in March, El Paso County Court at Law #7 Judge Ruben Morales dismissed 211 individual cases involving migrants charged with rioting at a border crossing. According to Morales, a procedural error transferring the cases from the local district court to his county court meant he lacked jurisdiction and was obligated to dismiss the charges.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers working at the El Paso area ports of entry managed to keep 11.2 pounds of fentanyl and 113 pounds of cocaine from hitting the United States illicit drug market in just one week’s worth of seizures. The seizures involved several cases during the week preceding the Cinco de Mayo holiday. In all, the street value of the narcotics is estimated at $1.5 million.
Cinco de Mayo proved relatively uneventful as illegal border crossings near El Paso have slowed in recent months. On Sunday, Breitbart Texas moved along the border between Texas and New Mexico, observing what seemed to be a quiet day on the heavily guarded U.S. side of the border as residents in Mexico celebrated the holiday. As the soldiers, Highway Patrol troopers, and Border Patrol agents guarded the Rio Grande’s U.S. bank, Juarez residents basked in the sun and swam in the narrow border river.
Despite a marked slowdown in migrant crossings into Texas in recent months, migrants released by the Biden administration can still be found sleeping and congregating in the heart of downtown El Paso.
Mark Seitz, the progressive Catholic bishop of El Paso, Texas, asserted that the U.S. would “grind to a standstill” without immigrants.
Texas authorities are investigating a shooting at the border where an Indiana National Guardsman allegedly shot at a man who was stabbing two migrants. After the shooting, the suspect fled back to Mexico while U.S. authorities treated the wounded migrants.
Video reports coming from Mexico show government immigration officials rounding up large groups of migrants near Juarez. The Mexican immigration officials are reportedly sending the migrants back to the southern end of the country.
A Texas magistrate judge ordered that migrant accused in the March 21 El Paso border riot be released on a personal recognizance bond on Easter Sunday. The judge accused the El Paso District Attorney’s Office of not being prepared to proceed on detention hearings required under Texas law.
A Venezuelan migrant who illegally crossed the Mexican border into Texas in 2022 is charged in the murder of a Georgia nursing student. The Biden administration released the Venezuelan national in El Paso where he listed an NGO in New York City as his destination.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” El Paso, TX Mayor Oscar Leeser stated that while he supports the Senate border bill and thinks we need bipartisan legislation, President Joe Biden can shut down the border if he wants to
President Joe Biden’s open-borders policy is pulling more foreigners into the United States while pushing more Latino citizens into the GOP, according to a Politico report from El Paso, the far-western tip of Texas.
The Chicago City Council has passed stringent new rules on bus companies in a desperate attempt to scare them away from dropping off illegal aliens.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the construction of additional barriers along the state’s border with New Mexico and Mexico. Border walls built in El Paso force migrants to enter the U.S. into New Mexico and then move across the Rio Grande into Texas, the governor says.
