Border Patrol chiefs in three sectors of the southwest border with Mexico report a daily apprehension rate of more than 2,600 per day during their most recent weekly recaps. The reports from these three of the nine southwest border sectors exceed President Joe Biden's new executive order imposing a cap of 2,500 migrants per day on a seven-day average.Β
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A former Mexican congressional candidate will spend 12 years in prison for drugging and sexually abusing his 11-year-old daughter. Authorities believe the abuse may have gone on for years before the assaults were discovered.
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Migrant apprehensions in the Tucson Sector jumped for the third straight week. Agents in the Arizona border sector apprehended nearly 8,000 migrants shortly before President Joe Biden announced his newest immigration executive order.
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Police arrested a Mexican national on Texas' Top 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Migrants List who was wanted for a parole violation on a murder charge. The arrest comes one day after Governor Greg Abbott announced the law enforcement tool on Wednesday.
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A Mexican pastor is currently jailed and awaiting sentencing following her conviction this week on forced labor charges. The conviction is tied to a migrant shelter she ran in Ciudad Juarez.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced on Wednesday the state's newest effort to crack down on the immigration crisis created by the Biden administration. Abbott launched a "Texas 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrants List."
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President Joe Biden invited several border city mayors to his signing of an executive order limiting asylum claims at the southwest border on Tuesday. The order allegedly aims to further reduce slower migrant crossing rates that have dropped precipitously since January. One Texas mayor, Rolando Salinas of Eagle Pass, one of the nationβs busiest migrant crossing points during Bidenβs first three years in office, was left off the invite list and questions the motive and timing for the president's newest executive order.
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A group of suspected cartel gunmen shot and killed the first woman mayor in the town of Cotija, Michoacan, a state suffering from widespread cartel violence. The killing comes just one day after Mexico held its national elections. The victim had survived a separate cartel kidnapping in 2023.
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According to a senior-level Customs and Border Protection source, the latest executive order signed by President Biden on Tuesday will do little more than make Americans grow accustomed to more than 2 million migrant entries into the United States annually. The source, not authorized to speak to the media, says the order will do little to change the landscape of an out-of-control border even if legal challenges by pro-migrant civil rights groups fail to kill the order outright.
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The House Committee on Natural Resources will hold a hearing on President Joe Biden's border crisis and efforts to combat criminal cartels and drug trafficking on Tuesday, June 4.
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Claudia Sheinbaum, the candidate for the ruling leftist party, was overwhelmingly elected the next president of Mexico in Sunday's general election.
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In the month leading up to Sunday's Mexican presidential election, migrant apprehensions along the U.S. southwestern border dropped to less than 118,000. This represents the third lowest month since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021.
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Five migrants lost their lives during a five-day stretch just in one Texas border sector. In the Del Rio Sector, once the busiest region for migrant crossings in the nation, five migrants perished as they attempted to reach the United States. Β
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The son of a Gulf Cartel operator who helped run a large-scale operation in Texas will spend two and a half years in federal prison for trying to intimidate federal agents. The agents were hunting for his father and potential witnesses against him.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott welcomed the first 300 National Guard soldiers as they relocated to a new forward operating base located on the Mexican border just south of Eagle Pass. Abbott toured βForward Operating Base Eagleβ on Friday alongside Adjutant General of Texas Major General Thomas Suelzer and Texas Border Czar Mike Banks. The Governor held a press conference after the tour, providing more details about the latest developments at the base camp.
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The murder of a top operator within a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel is sending shockwaves throughout Mexico. While the masterminds behind the murder remain unknown, the killing is expected to lead to violent consequences.
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A mayoral candidate in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, canceled her final campaign event after a recording artist headlining her event received a series of threats believed to come from the Gulf Cartel.
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A gunman shot and killed a Mexican mayoral candidate as he was about to take the stage during a campaign event in the coastal state of Guerrero. The murder comes amidst one of Mexico's bloodiest election cycles, with at least 36 candidates murdered and over 300 political attacks in a span of less than a year.
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A Mexican border state official actively worked with the Gulf Cartel to lure a group of businessmen to a local restaurant where gunmen from the Gulf Cartel then threatened them and extorted them. The businessmen provide food-vendor services to various international manufacturing companies operating in the border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas.
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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 Mexicoβs efforts to slow down the ongoing migrant crisis at the border.
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Authorities in Mexico rescued a group of migrants that had been abandoned by human smugglers in the waters of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas.
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A group of Tamaulipas state police officers chasing a suspect inadvertently crossed into Texas, setting off a brief standoff with U.S. authorities at an international port of entry in Brownsville.
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A North Texas sheriff confirmed the deaths of at least seven people in a tornado that struck two counties during the Memorial Day weekend. At least 20 others were injured in the Saturday-night storm.
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A suspected human smuggler from South Texas is facing federal charges for allegedly shooting several times at U.S. Border Patrol agents who had tried to stop him in a brushy area near the border.
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An article written by theΒ Washington Examiner states in its headline that the "Border Patrol has lost a quarter of [its] workforce since 2020 election." While the headline and article appear to be technically correct, they leave the impression that there are significantly fewer agents patrolling the border -- a conclusion that is not accurate.
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After a short reprieve from the earlier migrant surge, the Tucson Sector has reclaimed the number-one spot for migrant encounters along the southwest border with Mexico. Apprehensions of migrants illegally crossing the border between ports of entry surged this week to approximately 7,400. San Diego Sector apprehensions fell to just over 6,000.
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Mexicoβs President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador claimed that this weekβs outrage over the fatal shooting of a young boy during a failed kidnapping was manufactured as a way to hurt his government image due to the upcoming elections.
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Videos provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety show migrants breaching federal border walls at opposite ends of the state's border with Mexico. In El Paso, migrants became aggressive when confronted by Border Patrol agents. In McAllen, smugglers ferried a ladder across the Rio Grand to scale a border wall.
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'I Donβt Want to Die,' Young Boy Shot by Kidnappers in Mexico Screams in Video
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More than 500 political candidates have been placed under federal protection as a way to ensure the safety of the upcoming elections, said Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The assertions follow the murders of more than 30 candidates during the current electoral cycle.
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Breitbart Texas traveled west to what has become the busiest border crossing spot along the United States-Mexico border. The San Diego sector recently became the busiest Border Patrol sector for migrant crossings and the release of many migrants hoping to receive asylum and remain in the country.
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Once the busiest crossing point on the southwest border, migrant crossings in Lukeville have slowed significantly since an election-year deal was struck with Mexico in December. A once constantly busy transportation rally point used by the Border Patrol to stage migrants in the Organ Pipe National Monument now sits empty on most days. Where thousands of migrants once crossed each day, now, a few hundred migrants cross and are swiftly transported away from the border wall area.
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A group of gunmen abducted, killed, and then dismembered a political candidate and his wife. The gunmen left their remains in the bed of a pickup on a busy street in the popular beach resort town of Acapulco, Guerrero.Β Mexico has experienced one of the bloodiest-ever political seasons, with more than 30 politicians being murdered so far.
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Gulf Cartel gunmen ambushed a squad of police officers, killing two, in a Mexican border city that Tamaulipas government officials claim is safe. The killing comes after a full day of cartel blockades and shootouts that spread terror among locals.
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a pardon to U.S. Army Sergeant Daniel Perry, citing the state's Stand Your Ground laws and the right of self-defense. Perry was convicted by a Travis County court in April 2023 for shooting and killing Garret Foster during a Black Lives Matter protest.
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Authorities in Mexico City raided a high-end brothel and casino allegedly run by the Chinese Mafia in the cityβs historic downtown area.
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In a packed courtroom on Tuesday, a judge dismissed charges filed against 71 protesters arrested in late April at the Arizona State University Campus. The judge dismissed the cases without prejudice at the University Lakes Justice Court in Chandler, Arizona.
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The Biden administration claims that the Texas border island that was utilized by Mexican drug cartels for drug and human smuggling operations is owned by the federal government. The State of Texas recently secured the island from the Mexican drug cartels and cleared it of underbrush.
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Mexicoβs government provided buses and trucks to several hundred migrants who have been trekking through Mexico for over a month. The migrant caravan's destination is Mexico's northern border.
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Onlookers at Ocean Beach in San Diego, California, stood by and watched as a boat sped onto the beach and unloaded what appeared to be a load of migrants being smuggled into the U.S. Events like this are becoming commonplace on Southern California beaches.
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A suspected human smuggler led Texas Department of Public Safety troopers on a wild chase that ended as the driver crashed into a tree. Video shows at least six migrants climbing out of the stolen pickup truck following the crash.
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent will spend a year and a half in prison for trying to smuggle a female migrant from El Salvador into Texas.
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A convoy of Mexican National Guard soldiers shot at two female political candidates in the state of Jalisco, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) claimed.
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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.
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The escalation of migrant arrests in the Swanton Sector continues with back-to-back weekly records in April. The sector located along the U.S.-Canada border continues to experience record-shattering migrant apprehensions -- month after month.
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