by Tyler | Jun 22, 2019 | Border / Cartel Chronicles, dan patrick, Dennis Bonnen, Greg Abbott, immigration, Politics, Texas Border Crisis, Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas Governor, Texas National Guard, Trending
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered 1,000 National Guard Troops to the Mexican border Friday. The troops are tasked with supplemental staffing for new detention facilities being built by the Department of Homeland Security to free up Border Patrol agents.
by Tyler | Jun 12, 2019 | Border / Cartel Chronicles, Cartel, Drug Trafficking, Fentanyl, Heroin, methamphetamines, Michael Pompeo, Politics, Sen. David Perdue, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Sen. John Cornyn, Trending, Walmart
The drug trafficking from Mexico into the U.S. brings in more money than Walmart in a year, Perdue said during a Senate hearing.
by Tyler | Jun 8, 2019 | Border / Cartel Chronicles, Trending
EDINBURG, Texas – A dispute over a human smuggling operation led to an armed confrontation where cartel-linked street gang members shot one man in the face. The incident comes weeks after local sheriff’s deputies arrested several members of a Gulf Cartel kidnapping...
by Tyler | Jun 8, 2019 | Border / Cartel Chronicles, Tariffs, Trending
Mexican authorities are not releasing the names of the 26 individuals and entities whose assets were frozen as part of a new probe into migrant caravans and cartel-linked human smuggling organizations. The investigation was moved into high gear this week as tensions...
by Tyler | Jun 7, 2019 | Border / Cartel Chronicles, caravan migrants, immigration, Politics, Trending
Mexican authorities arrested two men suspected of promoting and organizing the migrant caravans that moved thousands of migrants from Central America to the U.S. border. Officials claim that the two men demanded money from Central American migrants in exchange for...
by Tyler | Jun 3, 2019 | Border / Cartel Chronicles, Crime, Gang Violence, immigration, MS-13, MS-13 Gang, New York Times, Trending
The New York Times unmasked a group of freedom fighters in Honduras who dared to take on the much-feared MS-13 gang. The U.S. publication printed their names, published photographs of their faces, families, and homes — allegedly without permission — thus...
