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In an apparent attempt to appease U.S. officials who have been pushing for tariffs and punitive measures against Mexico for their alleged role in protecting drug cartels, that country’s authorities confirmed the extradition of 29 criminals wanted by the U.S. Department of Justice. These include a top drug boss behind the 1985 murder of DEA Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, the two supreme leaders of Los Zetas Cartel, and the brother of the supreme leader of Cartel Jalisco New Generation.

Multiple news outlets report that the CIA is now stepping up drone flights over Mexico. The currently unarmed flights are said to be searching for fentanyl labs run by Mexican cartels designated by President Donald Trump as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that she and her staff are considering suing Google for refusing to change the Gulf of America to the Gulf of Mexico.

Un político mexicano envió una serie de cartas al presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald J. Trump, advirtiéndole sobre las supuestas conexiones con cárteles del nuevo cónsul de México en Miami. En la carta, el político advierte a Trump que haga que el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos y el Consejo de Seguridad Nacional investiguen adecuadamente al diplomático debido a sus antecedentes cuestionables.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 troops to its northern border as one of the ways to stop a 25 percent tariff from the Trump administration temporarily. The concession comes after days of grandstanding by the Mexican president, who publicly claimed she would stand up for her country’s sovereignty.

Mexican government officials refused to comment about the apparent refusal to accept a U.S. military flight carrying migrants headed for Mexico.

Mexican military forces began building a large-scale migrant detention center in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. The project is in preparation for the expected mass deportations announced by the administration of President Donald J. Trump. Since the start of

Three days of shootouts led to several dead gunmen and a gory beheading as members of the terrorist organization Cartel Jalisco New Generation continued their push for control of the western state of Michoacan. This escalation in violence comes one day before Mexican government officials talked about how crime has decreased in recent weeks.

Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan celebrated the discovery of three drug smuggling tunnels used by Mexican cartels along the Arizona border. U.S. and Mexican law enforcement teamed up and used drone technology to discover the tunnels.

Mexican authorities arrested three migrants for their alleged role in the murder of a decorated immigration agent. Two of the migrants are believed to be members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, while the third migrant is described as a Colombian national.

Strong sea currents diverted a makeshift boat filled with 12 Cuban migrants who were trying to reach the United States. After a week at sea, the migrants landed in the Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexican beach resort area. Last week, local and

Mexico’s government has announced a new program to provide emergency legal and consular assistance to migrants in the United States. The move comes as Mexico prepares for the expected mass deportation wave from the incoming administration of President-Elect Donald J. Trump.

Mexican federal prosecutors have requested the extradition of a convicted drug lord, turned protected witness, following his recent re-arrest on new drug charges. Among the charges that Mexico is trying to prosecute the drug lord for is his role as one of the masterminds in the murder of famed Mexican journalist and author Javier Valdez.

Another migrant caravan began this week in Southern Mexico, confirming a prior report from Breitbart Texas about the caravan forming with over 2000 individuals. The group wants to reach the U.S.-Mexico border before the January 20 start of the Trump administration. Mexican immigration officials did not try to stop the caravan but stood by and photographed it.

Another large migrant caravan departed from southern Mexico with the goal of entering the U.S. before President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration on January 20. The migrants will likely make their way to Mexico City before breaking up and heading for various U.S. border crossing points.

Mexico’s Foreign Relations Ministry (SRE) sent a diplomatic complaint, and the country’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, harshly criticized a series of comments by U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar. The ambassador claimed that Mexico’s security strategy, “Hugs Not Bullets,” had failed.

A new migrant caravan of approximately 1,000 migrants departed from Mexico’s southern border this weekend to make its way to Mexico City. From there, the group is expected to disperse and find various ways to reach the U.S. border. The caravan is the second to start in Mexico since October 1, when the country’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, took office.

The latest development between the Biden/Harris administration and the government of Mexico on the immigration front will see migrants provided bussing from two southern Mexico cities to the United States border. The plan will provide the migrants headed to the United States with meals and security during travel from the two cities to the U.S. destination where the migrant’s asylum appointments are scheduled under the CBP-One application.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced that his country was pausing relations with the U.S. and Canadian embassies in Mexico following letters and statements. The president says diplomatic officials from both countries had spoken out against his proposed judicial reform, which calls for yearly open elections for all federal judges.

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced that his staff was sending a diplomatic notice complaining about the actions of U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar by interfering in judicial reform. The reforms called for having judges in Mexico be elected rather than selected. The U.S. diplomat published a letter warning that the proposed judicial reform could damage the country’s democracy and hurt the commercial relationship between the two countries.

Mexican federal prosecutors announced that they had begun a treason investigation against various individuals who played a role in the controversial U.S. arrest of top Sinaloa Cartel Boss Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. According to the cartel boss, the arrest came after individuals with the Chapitos faction of the cartel kidnapped him and turned him over to U.S. authorities at an airport near El Paso.

Mexican authorities are escorting more than 3,000 migrants who began trekking their way north as part of a new migrant caravan, with each of the participants having the ultimate goal of reaching the U.S. border and requesting asylum or some other form of protected status.

Mexico’s President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum and her political allies reacted to a series of comments made by Presidential Candidate Donald Trump that were not directed at them but at U.S. President Joe Biden. The premature reaction by Mexico’s political elite appears to have been fueled by Mexican journalists who mistranslated and widely shared the comments from a poorly edited video on social media.

Mexican immigration agents allowed a Hungarian woman who had previously been flagged by U.S. authorities to enter the country in exchange for a cash bribe. The incident comes when Mexican immigration officials have been unable to shake a long list of corruption allegations.

The Biden administration publicly thanked the government of Mexico for extraditing a prominent lieutenant with the Sinaloa Cartel who had been in Mexican custody since November 2023. However, the administration has remained silent about more than a dozen other pending extraditions and the blocking of visas for U.S. agents to work in Mexico. The acknowledgment comes at a time when Biden is relying on Mexico’s efforts to slow down the ongoing migrant crisis at the border.

The Mexican government publicly denied the existence of a clandestine crematorium filled with ashes and remains in Mexico City. Government officials claim the news about the alleged cartel killing field was an attempt by government opposition forces to damage the image of Mexico City and of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

A Mexican Senator from the Morena Party drew widespread condemnation after he organized the ritualistic killing of a chicken as an “offering to a rain god.” The incident took place in one of the courtyards of Mexico’s federal senate building.

The weekend murder of two political candidates in Mexico marks the current political cycle as one of the bloodiest in recent decades. Criminal organizations and their political allies appear to be flexing their muscles to eliminate opposition.

El asesinato de dos candidatos políticos el fin de semana marca el actual ciclo político como uno de los más sangrientos de las últimas décadas en México, donde las organizaciones criminales y sus aliados políticos parecen estar mostrando sus músculos.

Mexican immigration authorities are trying to cover up the heavy-handed tactics that they used against a group of migrants who were protesting prior assaults by authorities against them. As part of their coverup, authorities are claiming that they were the ones who were assaulted by migrants.

Las autoridades mexicanas de inmigración están tratando de encubrir las tácticas abusivas que utilizaron en contra de un grupo de migrantes que protestaba agresiones previas por parte de las autoridades. Como parte de este encubrimiento, las autoridades declararon que ellos fueron quienes fueron agredidos por los migrantes.

Mexico has been crushing Texas farmers and border communities by not releasing water from its dams as part of an international agreement signed in 1944. The ongoing issue, worsened by sustained droughts has pushed a Texas county to issue an emergency declaration.

More than 2,000 migrants are currently traveling through southern Mexico with the help of government officials and NGOs with the eventual goal of reaching the U.S. border. Calling themselves the Migrant Way of the Cross, the group is currently moving toward Mexico City. From there, the migrants plan to get buses and other means of transportation to eventually reach the U.S.-Mexico border.

Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists are calling out Mexico’s government over the ongoing violence against journalists and the lack of protection given to them — even those who have been placed under a police program for targeted journalists.

The number of migrants apprehended along the southwest border with Mexico in January fell by more than 50 percent from the record-shattering report in December. Following dropping approval ratings for President Joe Biden on the topic of immigration and border security and a meeting between the Mexican president and two Biden administration cabinet members, actions taken by the Mexican government led to a drop of more than 125,000 migrant apprehensions in January.

Claims of abuse, negligence, and human rights violations continue to plague Mexico’s largest immigration station. Last week, authorities tried to cover up their negligence in the second fatality in this facility in a matter of weeks.