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MCALLEN, Texas–The ongoing dispute between factions of the Gulf Cartel over control of the area just south of the Texas Border resulted in the death of six cartel hitmen in various firefights. The first firefight began in the Mexican City

MCALLEN, Texas-The drug trafficking trial of a pee wee football coach, who is accused of helping lead a drug empire that even had police protection, provided great insight into how drugs are smuggled into the U.S. and about the world

MCALLEN, Texas–Texas media outlets are reporting Texas Governor Rick Perry is preparing to deploy the Texas National Guard to portions of the Texas/Mexico border. State Senator Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa (D-McAllen) confirmed the pending announcement of Perry’s decision to deploy 1,000

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

MCALLEN, Texas–A federal judge denied bond for a husband and wife accused of kidnapping an illegal immigrant from Honduras and threatening her family with decapitating her or selling her off to a brothel if they didn’t pay a ransom.  On

McALLEN, Texas–Federal agents arrested a convicted human smuggler accused of leading them on a 45 minute foot chase in the brush. The smuggler was apparently trying to avoid getting caught with 10 illegal immigrants hidden in a tractor trailer. Court

On Wednesday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Hannity,” Parker Co., TX Sheriff Larry Fowler reported that his officers recently arrested an illegal immigrant who had been previously deported four times for sexual assault.  “I’m not buying any of this border secure business…we

McALLEN, Texas–Federal authorities have arrested a convicted drug trafficker from Mexico accused of taking part in the Gulf Cartel ordered kidnapping and execution of a man in the border city of Mission, Texas; the cartel team took the wrong man.

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

WASHINGTON, D.C.–A working group of lawmakers appointed by Speaker John Boehner is poised to recommend deploying the National Guard, amending a 2008 law requiring a lengthy deportation process, bringing in temporary judges to reduce a legal backlog and new border

The head of Germany’s federal police says that the country is Europe’s “number one destination” for illegal immigrants, with the number of cases increasing by 31.6 per cent between 2012 and 2013 to 56,000. Dieter Romann, head of the Bundespolizei,

TUCSON, Arizona–It’s official: drug smugglers and illegal immigrants have better access to a taxpayer-funded military facility in Arizona than law enforcement agencies and the American public. The Barry M. Goldwater Range (BMGR) is an enormous training facility in southwest Arizona

The U.S. government has created a widely popular song about the “death train” to discourage Central Americans from risking their lives in pursuit of the amnesty that they believe awaits them across the U.S.-Mexico border. The Daily Beast reported that

Border Patrol agent Hector Garza stated in an interview on the Thursday broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” that the U.S. government is “completing the smuggling cycle” of unaccompanied minors into the United States, and asked “why would anyone want

The Justice Department will be moving resources to prioritize the adjudication of recent border crossers in removal proceedings and hiring more immigration judges to deal with the cases quickly, Deputy Attorney General James Cole announced Wednesday.  “We have an obligation

I was busy washing dishes yesterday evening when all of a sudden I heard a wailing sound and doors slamming in my building. An air raid siren; the first in Tel Aviv since Operation Pillar of Defense back in November

It has been an exceptionally dramatic week so far for Israelis, as the terrorist group Hamas launched an offensive consisting of dozens of rockets from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. While many rockets were intercepted, Israelis across the country were forced on

Monday on MSNBC’s “The Daily Rundown,” NBC correspondent Stephanie Gosk, who was tasked with the mission of finding out why there has been a surge of unaccompanied minors flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border, reported from Honduras where she spoke to

TUCSON, Arizona–A member of Guatemalan First Lady Rosa Leal de Pérez’s entourage that traveled to southern Arizona this week provided a Breitbart Texas source with some inside information on Tuesday about Vice President Joe Biden’s appeal to Central American leaders

Fresh off a tour of the U.S. border with Mexico, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte said it is clear that Obama administration policies have lead to the recent surge in unaccompanied minors and family units illegally entering the U.S.

France’s conservative family-values campaigners have forced the Socialist government to scrap plans to force all schools to introduce a gender-equality programme. Parents fear the programme is an attempt by the government to teach primary school children that “they aren’t born

Laredo, Texas–U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Laredo sector are primarily caring for unaccompanied minors and incomplete family units instead of securing the border, according to a spokesman for the local chapter of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC). “On

President Barack Obama called on congressional leaders to supply “new tools and resources” for the government to deal with the influx of unaccompanied immigrant minors Monday. In a letter to leaders, Obama enumerated what his administration is doing to deal

HOUSTON, Texas–As four Mexican federal police officers patrolled a highway just south of Reynosa on Thursday, they were ambushed by a group of gunmen. Three officers were injured and one was killed as a result of the attack.  A convoy

MADISONVILLE, Texas–Four more bodies of immigrants left to die by human smugglers in South Texas have been found in the past two days. The bodies were found in Brooks County near the small town of Falfurrias, Texas approximately 75 miles

In three separate incidents on Wednesday, Border Patrol agents in Murrieta and Indio, California seized $964,530 worth of drugs, including cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin. All three seizures occurred in under two hours. At 10:30 a.m., Murrieta sector Border Patrol agents

A 44-year-old man has died of an overdose at Venice Airport after a bag of cocaine ruptured in his stomach. Stefano Gaviolo started to become ill after he arrived at Marco Polo Airport on a flight from Brazil, according to the

Cigarette vending machines will be banned in Ireland as part of the government’s attempt to create “a tobacco-free Ireland” by 2015, according to the Irish Times. The legislation was agreed by cabinet yesterday. It follows news earlier this month that

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

Britain on Tuesday became the latest nation to formally outlaw the herbal stimulant khat, the bushy leaf chewed by many Somalis, Yemenis, Kenyans and Ethiopians. Under a new law that came into effect on Tuesday, khat is now a “class

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The U.S. government plans to turn an empty 55,000-square foot warehouse in South Texas into a processing facility for unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally, according to construction permits obtained by The Associated Press

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

HOUSTON, Texas–Thousands of illegal immigrants–most of whom are from Central America–continue to cross the U.S.-Mexico border each day, but there are many who never complete the dangerous journey north because they run out of money. The trip from Central America can

HOUSTON, Texas–47-year-old Gerardo Salazar, a fugitive since 2005, landed in the U.S. on Wednesday to face various charges related to an alleged sex trafficking ring that he was the head of. He is accused of smuggling minor girls into the

The United States must respect the “universal rights” of the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors illegally entering the country, according to the Salvadoran ambassador to the United States. “We understand the concern of the U.S. government about the issue