A Dallas police officer is dead after being found shot in his marked patrol vehicle in the Oak Cliff neighborhood Thursday night. Two responding officers were also shot — one in critical condition.
Mexican authorities are insinuating that the U.S. government played a role in the alleged kidnapping of a top drug lord who was flown north of the border by his rivals and turned over to authorities. The allegations are part of an ongoing federal kidnapping and treason investigation undertaken by Mexican authorities following the arrest of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, one of the supreme leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel.
A U.S. District Court judge sentenced a Philippine national to 30 years in federal prison for placing hidden cameras in cruise ship passenger bathrooms to film children. The United States Attorney’s office for the Southern District of Florida announced the sentencing on Wednesday of 34-year-old Arvin Joseph Mirasol for placing the hidden cameras since December 2023.
A Dallas police officer is dead after being found shot in his marked patrol vehicle in the Oak Cliff neighborhood Thursday night. Two responding officers were also shot — one in critical condition.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the start of another border wall project in Starr County. The governor ordered the construction of border walls in Texas after the Biden-Harris administration stopped projects approved during the Trump administration.
Two apparently unrelated groups of migrants who illegally crossed the border from Mexico into California reportedly attempted to stop and board school buses loaded with elementary school students. The school district stated the attempts were unsuccessful and the children were not in danger.
Authorities in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas have confirmed the discovery of two separate locations used by cartel gunmen to kill and incinerate the remains of their victims. Cartel crematoriums and clandestine gravesites have become almost commonplace in various parts of Mexico as criminal organizations try to avoid attention by not leaving bodies behind. The disposal of remains also allows government officials to hide the levels of violence by filing most cases as missing persons instead of murders or kidnappings.
Las autoridades del estado fronterizo de Tamaulipas confirmaron el descubrimiento de dos lugares utilizados por sicarios de los cárteles para matar e incinerar los restos de sus víctimas. Los crematorios de los cárteles y las fosas clandestinas se han vuelto algo común en varias partes de México, ya que las organizaciones criminales tratan de evitar la atención al no dejar cuerpos, algo que también permite a los funcionarios del gobierno ocultar los niveles de violencia al dar carpetazo a la mayoría de los casos como personas desaparecidas en lugar de asesinatos o secuestros.
Texas Department of Public Safety rangers and troopers arrested a 20-year-old Honduran national on a warrant for aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of 14. The man, recently added to Texas’ 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrants List, was released by the Biden-Harris administration in 2021 on an order of recognizance.
Government officials in Mexico have been working to portray an image of peace in the border state of Tamaulipas by using doctored crime stats and making misleading statements to news outlets. In reality, several drug cartels have been waging fierce turf wars throughout the state. The violence rose exponentially in recent weeks as drug cartels have become more brazen.
Funcionarios gubernamentales en México han estado trabajando para presentar una imagen pacífica en el estado fronterizo de Tamaulipas falseando estadísticas del crimen y hacienda declaraciones engañosas a los medios de comunicación cuando en realidad, varios cárteles de la droga han estado peleando violentas guerras territoriales a lo largo del estado. La violencia se ha elevado de manera exponencial en semanas recientes y los cárteles de la droga se han vuelto más descarados.
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.
El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents rescued groups of migrants from multiple stash houses near the border in New Mexico. So far this year, El Paso Sector agents rescued nearly 2,400 migrants from 244 human smuggling stash houses.
The record-shattering surge of migrant crossings in the Swanton Sector continues with the apprehension of more than 2,700 migrants in July. The sector of the U.S.-Canada Border experienced an increase of nearly 200 percent from the same record-setting period one
Authorities in Mexico found 22 migrants who were abandoned by smugglers inside a truck that had a blown tire. The migrants did not have paperwork to be in the country and are believed to have been headed north to the U.S. border.
Vivek Ramaswamy told Breitbart News about why he got involved in “City of Dreams,” a film chronicling the depraved world of child slavery and trafficking via the southern border.
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.
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Colonel Steve McCraw announced on Friday he will retire from the agency at the end of the year. McCraw served as the agency’s director for the past 15 years. Under Governor Greg Abbott, McCraw headed up the state’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star.
Two top Los Zetas cartel commanders and nine of their gunmen received a 50-year prison sentence for their roles in the mass killing of over 120 victims in the border state of Tamaulipas. The victims were pulled off passenger buses, killed, and buried in shallow mass graves near the town of San Fernando.
A factsheet report released by the House Committee on Homeland Security Republicans this week highlighted the more than 170,000 nationwide migrant encounters in July. According to the committee factsheet released on Wednesday, the total of nationwide encounters under the Biden-Harris administration climbed to 10.1 million. That total did not include the roughly two million known got-aways recorded by CBP since the start of fiscal year 2021.
The governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa asked the various factions of the drug cartel that controls his state for peace. The request followed a series of killings tied to infighting within the criminal organization. The killings emerged after the apparent kidnapping and surrendering to U.S. authorities of Sinaloa Cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada by the Chapitos faction of the organization.
Two gunmen tried to kidnap the father of a Mexican border city mayor and then shot at him as the gunmen tried to escape. The attack comes as Tamaulipas state officials continue to claim that the region is safe despite several recent high-profile kidnappings.
Homeland Security Investigations special agents arrested 70 migrants during the past week in human smuggling stash houses being operated out of short-term rental properties. HSI officials say the use of these type of rental properties to warehouse migrants is a growing trend.
Authorities in Mexico confirmed the disappearance of a U.S. citizen from Iowa who had been missing for several days after crossing the border. The disappearance comes at a time when government officials continue to claim that security conditions have been improving. However, criminal organizations like the Gulf Cartel can operate with almost complete impunity.
The weekend kidnapping, torture, and murder of a top Sinaloa Cartel lieutenant put the public on edge as the killing could signal the start of a new turf war following the recent shakeup of the criminal organization.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol officials report an increase in migrant apprehensions for the second consecutive week. During the past four weeks, agents encountered nearly 13,000 migrants. San Diego Sector Chief Patrol Agent Patricia McGurk-Daniel posted a weekly recap on
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced he would write to U.S. President Joe Biden to complain about his administration financing non-governmental organizations that have been critical of his government.
The family of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry expressed being sickened and disheartened after the recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to reverse the conviction of the man charged with the agent’s death. The court vacated the conviction of Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes four years after the district court in Arizona convicted him of the December 14, 2010, murder of Agent Terry.
A journalist in Mexico who made headlines for her tough questions aimed at the country’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador pointed the finger at him, claiming that if she suffers any attacks in the future is because of him and his rhetoric. The Mexican politician shrugged her off with indifference and asked if she was done.
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.
A former Texas peace officer will spend more than ten years in prison for using his position to smuggle drugs and launder money. The former cop tried to claim that he had been doing undercover work while using his police vehicle to move drug loads across state lines, federal prosecutors said.
According to a DHS report reviewed by Breitbart Texas, 1,953 migrants from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were apprehended at the southwest border during the month of July. This brings this year’s total number of PRC nationals apprehended at the border to 35,300.
Three Mexican nationals from the state of Coahuila crossed the Rio Grande and made their way north into Texas just north of the small border town of Quemado. After the migrants crossed U.S. Highway 277 between Eagle Pass and Del Rio, they tripped a surveillance camera, sending an alert to Texas Department of Public Safety troopers, Texas National Guard soldiers, and U.S. Border Patrol agents. The manhunt was underway.
Federal authorities arrested a Haitian national in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who was previously deported from the United States after a felony conviction for human smuggling. The smuggling incident resulted in the deaths of ten migrants more than a decade earlier.
A Mexican diplomat assigned to Shanghai is facing disciplinary action after a consular member recorded him during a heated verbal tirade where he threatened to assault them and told them and a higher-ranking diplomat to go f*ck their mothers.
Grenade attacks and shootouts on packed hotel beaches continue to plague the beach hotspot of Cancun as rival cartels fight for control of the local drug trade.
Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio Sector experienced an uptick in the number of migrant apprehensions last week. Agents encountered more than 1,700 migrants during the past week, including six large migrant groups.
State police officers could not assist a group of fellow cops under fire during a series of large-scale deadly attacks by cartel gunmen because their vehicles did not have enough fuel.
Journalists in Mexico are once again denouncing the murder of one of their own who died at the hands of a team of gunmen. The attack came despite the victim being under police protection.
Police arrested Alberto Martinez-Fidel in connection to a shooting that took place Sunday morning in Montgomery, Alabama. Martinez is accused of causing serious bodily injury to another resident of the city after shooting him in the back and buttocks.
A federal judge sentenced a 27-year-old Pharr, Texas, resident to eight years in federal prison for his role in a migrant smuggling operation that authorities suspect may have moved thousands of migrants from the border region into the interior of the United States.
