Border / Cartel Chronicles - Page 6

A gunman slapped and tried to beat up a top Gulf Cartel lieutenant, blaming him for his imminent capture after state authorities found them. Police found them, along with several other men, as they were drinking and smoking marijuana in a safehouse not far from the border with Texas.

A Border Patrol agent became the victim of a frightening assault near Sunland Park, New Mexico, as he attempted to apprehend a migrant for crossing the border alongside several others. The migrant punched and bit the Border Patrol agent as he was being led to a transport vehicle on Thursday.

One of Mexico’s most famous investigative journalists announced his indefinite retirement after being the target of numerous threats and attacks from gunmen. The journalist had also been the target of government hostilities after Mexican prosecutors leaked his personal information to drug traffickers.

A former Drug Enforcement Administration special agent says the activities of the violent Venezuelan prison gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA), in Texas, could be “just the beginning.”

Two Honduran illegal migrants living in New Mexico have been charged for allegedly conspiring to kidnap other migrants to extort their families for ransom, the U.S. ​​Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said Monday.

A Houston man is charged with human smuggling after a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper found 16 migrants locked behind a fake wall in a cargo trailer.

Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol troopers interdicted a large group of migrants shortly after they waded across the shallow Rio Grande north of Eagle Pass on Wednesday. In all, 124 migrants from a host of different countries were arrested by the troopers in a surprising twist to the election-year slowdown along the Texas border.

A top Mexican Army general claimed that security in the state of Sinaloa is not up to the country’s military but rather to the rival faction of the Sinaloa Cartel that is waging a fierce turf war that left dozens dead in a matter of days.

According to a source within the Department of Homeland Security, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has all but abandoned its offices in Eagle Pass and Del Rio, Texas. Only one special agent is working in one border office, and a local police task force officer is working in the other. The situation, according to the source, leaves just one DEA agent working a few days per week along the Texas border between El Paso and Laredo.

An explosion and massive fire broke out after an as-yet unidentified driver of an SUV plowed through a fence, striking a LNG pipe valve in Deer Park, Texas, on Monday. Authorities have not disclosed the intent of the driver who allegedly caused the crash and explosion.

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.

The escalating turf war between rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel led to the deaths of dozens of gunmen and innocent bystanders. The turf war also led to dozens of abductions, spreading terror among locals.

San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents are reporting an increase in migrant apprehensions over the past couple of weeks. The near 25 percent increase from two weeks ago comes as the 2024 presidential election nears.

Several cities throughout Mexico have been forced to cancel their traditional Independence Day celebration due to widespread cartel violence.

A new wave of intense cartel fighting forced government officials to order the shutdown of school activities as locals locked themselves indoors in the state of Sinaloa. The measures follow several days of fighting as two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel clashed with minimal interference from federal police and military forces.

The Biden-Harris administration released a Venezuelan migrant and his family onto the streets of Eagle Pass after they entered the U.S. via the CBP One cell phone app. The migrants said they were asked no questions regarding asylum or credible fear before being released into the U.S.

Top Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada pleaded not guilty during his first hearing in a New York federal court. The cartel leader faces 17 charges, including various drug trafficking conspiracies. The drug trafficker previously had hearings in a Texas federal court but was transferred out this week.

Federal agents arrested two top border city officials who are accused of demanding cash bribes from a business owner.

Mexico’s National Institute of Migration (INM) announced the arrival of the first bus of migrants under its new “Secure Emerging Mobility Corridor” program. The program offers migrants free transportation, including meals and security from the Mexico/Guatemala border to ports of entry in the United States, where they will be admitted under the Biden-Harris CBP One app.

Police in Aurora, Colorado, continue releasing information about members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdN) and their alleged activities in apartments in the city. Most recently, police identified ten TdN gang members and provided details of their alleged crimes.

Mexican immigration officials have been allegedly pulling out all the stops to illegally make as much money from migrants before the government places their teams in leadership positions. The actions come as a new administration is expected to take office in Mexico next month. 

Dado que se espera que el próximo mes una nueva administración tome el mando, oficiales mexicanos de inmigración han estado poniendo todo su esfuerzo para sacar la mayor cantidad de dinero posible de los migrantes antes de que el nuevo gobierno coloque a sus propios equipos en posiciones de liderazgo.

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.

A Cuban national wanted in connection to a recent Tennessee murder was arrested in La Pryor, Texas, on Monday. The migrant entered the United States using the controversial CBP-One smartphone application, according to Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn (R).

Mexico’s president is to release a former state governor who has been convicted in both the United States and Mexico on drug trafficking and money laundering charges.

A new series of cartel clashes taking place in the rural parts of western Mexico forced hundreds of individuals to flee their homes as government officials appear to turn a blind eye to the horrors. Amid the violence, human rights activists are asking Mexico’s government to step in to not only restore the peace but to implement long-term solutions to the violence and the forced displacement of indigenous people in the region.

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) compiled a comprehensive report entitled Invading America — How the Biden-Harris Border Crisis is Fundamentally Transforming the United States. Roy told Breitbart Texas the report details broad aspects of the border crisis and illustrates how the policies of the Biden-Harris administration is destroying American sovereignty and endangering both American citizens and migrants.

Under the watch of the Biden-Harris administration, a police officer in the United States has been shot every 22 hours this year, according to the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). More than 260 law enforcement officers have been shot so far this year.

Federal prosecutors allege that two officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Field Operations spent years working with an unnamed drug cartel.  The officers allegedly allowed the criminal organization to move large amounts of fentanyl, methamphetamines, cocaine, and heroin through their inspection lanes,  court documents revealed.

A bus company operating in South Texas is named in a million-dollar lawsuit over their alleged negligence during a wave of cartel kidnappings in Mexico. The lawsuit alleges the company did not inform customers of the danger and did not take any steps to protect them amid a wave of cartel kidnappings targeting travelers moving between South Texas and Mexico.

A former border state governor in Mexico is lashing out at current authorities in Tamaulipas over their attempted coverup of a case where suspected cartel gunmen tried to take his son who was driving along a highway. The former governor claimed that the current state government has worked hand in hand with drug cartels, and the growing crime and lawlessness in the region is a reflection of that.

An Indiana youth baseball coach spoke on Wednesday about how shocked he and his community are in the wake of the stabbing of a teen girl.

A Salvadoran migrant, reportedly deported from the U.S. during the Trump administration, is charged in Virginia with chaining two young boys to a bed. The mother of one of the boys is also charged in the incident.

Maverick County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a call from citizens reporting banging coming from an abandoned semi-trailer on the city’s outskirts early Wednesday morning. Upon arrival, deputies found 26 migrants sealed inside the abandoned trailer, gasping for air. The migrants had been loaded into the trailer by unknown persons who had fled the scene before the arrival of law enforcement authorities.

Authorities in Mexico arrested a top leader of the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas. The arrest comes as that criminal organization has been linked to numerous disappearances and mass killings with considerable impunity.

Violence exploded in the western state of Michoacan following a shift in alliances that saw bitter rivals join forces to take on another criminal organization that passes itself off as a self-defense group to get help from police and military forces.