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Border security is a top issue with American voters. President Biden is responding by signing executive action that he claims will help secure our borders. Is this a meaningful step to rein in the chaos at our borders or political theater? I served as a U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) agent for nearly 30 years and retired as chief during the …

MEXICO CITY – As Mexicans prepare to vote in the country’s presidential election on Sunday, 2024 has proven to be one of the most violent years for candidates and election officials in the country, with more than 225 killed, according to reports. On Wednesday, José Alfredo Cabrera Barrientos was murdered in front of supporters while campaigning for mayor of Coyuca …

Mexico’s drug cartels and gangs appear to be playing a wider role in Sunday’s elections that will determine the presidency, nine governorships and about 19,000 mayorships and other local posts. The country’s powerful drug cartels have long staged targeted assassinations of mayoral and other local candidates who threaten their control. Gangs in Mexico depend on controlling local police chiefs, and …

A $4.64 billion punishment for a Mexican cartel’s massacre of American women and children was considered symbolic. The families of the victims, who ranged from an 8-month-old baby to a 43-year-old mom, were never expected to see a dime. But a law firm representing the families, Motley Rice Law Firm, inundated federal courts with over 1,200 claims against U.S. law …

In early May, Claudia Sheinbaum, the favorite to win Mexico’s upcoming presidential election next month, suddenly pulled out of a planned visit to Apatzingan, a town in the violent state of Michoacan. Three sources from her inner circle told Reuters the decision was taken because a drug cartel set fire to several vehicles shortly before the rally, forcing the federal …

An Indiana beauty queen was swept up in a sweeping drug bust with ties to a Mexican cartel that’s been years in the making. Glenis Zapata, 34, who was crowned Miss Indiana Latina in 2011, allegedly used her job as a flight attendant to move drug money from Chicago to the southern states and into Mexico, according to a federal …

Prosecutors in Mexico say they have found the bodies of four men and two women piled up on a street in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco. The victims, who were strangled and had their hands tied behind their backs, were discovered late Monday. The killings remain under investigation and their identities have not been released. Last week, five dismembered …

Mexico’s “most powerful and ruthless” cartels operate in all 50 states and clash in American cities, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said in a May report. The Jalisco and Sinaloa cartels have flooded major U.S. cities with meth and fentanyl and use violence to protect their turf, the report found. “The deadly reach of the Mexican Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels …

Mexico’s once all powerful drug lord, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, is claiming he cannot get phone calls or visits in the maximum security U.S. prison where he is serving a life sentence. El Chapo penned his complaint to District Court Judge Brian M. Cogan in the Eastern District of New York in late March, complaining that he hadn’t been able …

A report released by the Mexican government Friday says the country is facing a dire shortage of fentanyl for medical use, even as Mexican cartels pump out tons of the illicit narcotic. The paradox was reported in a study by Mexico’s National Commission on Mental Health and Addictions. The study did not give a reason for the shortage of the …