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Reported illegal migrant behind alleged Highway 39 sexual assaults arrested as LA sheriff seeks more victims

A reported illegal immigrant accused of sexually assaulting two women along Highway 39 in southern California has been taken into custody as police are seeking more victims. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says Eduardo Sarabia, 40, is now facing two felony counts of forcible rape and forcible oral copulation following alleged incidents on Sunday and Monday of this week. …

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Surfers' deaths in Mexico 'eerily' similar to San Diego couple's murders: 'Anyone can be killed for anything'

The case of three surfers killed in Mexico “is eerily similar” to the murders of a San Diego couple in the same Mexican state four years ago, a private investigator said. Jay Armes III, who specializes in kidnappings in Mexico and works cases all over the world, immediately remembered Ian Hirschsohn and Kathy Harvey, a couple in their 70s who …

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Cartels lure American teens to smuggle illegals: 'No idea what they're getting into' – and 'no way out'

Cartels are using flashy social media posts with piles of money, jewelry and luxury items to entice teens in America and Mexico to smuggle illegal immigrants across the U.S. border – and officials say the young people have no idea what they are getting mixed up in. Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers arrested two Texas 19-year-olds Saturday for …

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Trump, House Dems defend Texas congressman accused of accepting Mexican bribes, but for very different reasons

Former President Trump and the Democratic House Caucus both came to the defense of Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, who was indicted for allegedly taking bribes to benefit a Mexican bank and the Azerbaijan government. While Trump and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., both nodded to Cuellar’s respectable reputation, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee went a step further, accusing President …

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Cinco de Mayo: Facts, meaning and celebration of the holiday

Cinco de Mayo is an important holiday that honors Mexican heritage. It is widely celebrated across North America, especially in the U.S. The holiday represents the resilience of the Mexican people during the invasion by the French empire in the 19th century. MEXICAN BEER THE MOST POPULAR IN US: CINCO DE MAYO WILL FIESTA TO THE FLAVOR OF THESE CINCO …

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Fourth body found in search for US and Australian surfers who mysteriously vanished in Mexico

A fourth body has reportedly been discovered in a popular Mexican tourist area, where an American and two Australians vanished last week while on an apparent camping and surfing trip, the local prosecutor’s office said in a statement late on Friday. American Jack Carter Rhoad, 30, as well as Australian brothers Callum Robinson, 33, and Jake Robinson, 30, were last …

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Ecuador defends storming of Mexican Embassy in case brought to top UN court

Ecuador on Wednesday defended its storming of the Mexican Embassy in Quito last month, telling judges at the United Nations’ top court that it acted to take in “a common criminal” — Ecuador’s former vice president — who was holed up inside the diplomatic post. The statement by lawyers for Ecuador was part of hearings in a case filed by …

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Volunteer searchers claim to have found secret crematorium in Mexico City

Volunteer searchers said they have found a clandestine crematorium on the edge of Mexico City. It’s the first time in recent memory that anyone claimed to have found such a body disposal site in the capital. In northern Mexico, drug cartels often use drums filled with diesel or caustic substances to burn or dissolve bodies, but up to now there …

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Chinese money laundering criminals team up with Mexican cartels to menace US, officials warn Congress

Officials with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Treasury Department warned members of Congress this week about the escalating threats from Chinese money laundering. During a Tuesday hearing on Capitol Hill, U.S. senators heard repeated warnings about money coming into the United States from illicit means connected to China and how that money is funding illegal drugs, like fentanyl, from …

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Mexico's migrant bussing spree a lifeline for Biden on border crisis: expert

A springtime lull in illegal border crossings could be the result of increased enforcement efforts by the Mexican government in a bid to help President Biden. “The Biden administration responds to bad optics,” Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, told Fox News Digital. “The numbers reached a new high in December, and it’s no …

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