azpm.org — PHOENIX — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced Thursday their biggest fentanyl bust ever, saying they captured nearly 254 pounds of the synthetic drug that is fueling a national epidemic of fatal opioid overdoses from a secret compartment inside a load of Mexican produce heading into Arizona. The drug was found hidden Saturday […]
US Border Agency Announces Biggest-Ever Fentanyl Bust, Worth $3.5M
February 3, 2019 By Leave a Comment
Additional troops to be sent to the border
February 3, 2019 By Leave a Comment
CBSNEWS — An additional 2,000 to 3,000 troops are expected to be sent to the U.S.-Mexico border, CBS News’ David Martin reported Wednesday. This comes one day after acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told reporters “several thousand” additional troops would be required to offer additional support to administration efforts to prevent illegal immigration. There are […]
Migrant Caravan Swells to 12,000 at Mexico’s Southern Border
January 27, 2019 By Leave a Comment
BREITBART — Mexican immigration officials in the city of Ciudad Hidalgo, which borders Guatemala, are establishing procedures to expedite the process in which to approve one-year humanitarian visas for members of the Central American migrant caravan who are arriving daily. The one-year humanitarian visas, promised by Mexico’s new President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is a […]
Trump threatens to close the border over a new caravan forming in Honduras that reportedly isn’t even headed for the US
December 30, 2018 By Leave a Comment
businessinsider.com — In tweets on Friday morning, President Donald Trump warned of a new migrant caravan forming in Honduras and vowed to close the US-Mexico border and withhold aid to Central American governments. But the new caravan isn’t heading to the US, according to immigration advocates and news reports. The caravan is estimated to have […]
Another migrant caravan with 15,000 people is set to depart from Honduras next month
December 30, 2018 By Leave a Comment
dailymail.com — The group is preparing to leave Honduras on January 15 and make its way north Unlike previous caravans, the group plans to stop short of the US and find work in Mexico instead Meanwhile, migrants who arrived with the last large caravan in October are still waiting out the asylum-seeking process at overcrowded […]
Illegal immigrant accused of murdering a California cop on Christmas day is caught trying to flee to Mexico just hours before hundreds gathered for slain officer’s candlelight vigil
December 30, 2018 By Leave a Comment
dailymail.com — Gustavo Perez Arriaga, 32, was arrested Friday morning in Bakersfield, California He’s suspected of shooting dead Corporal Ronil Singh on Wednesday morning when the officer pulled him over on suspicion of DUI Hundreds gathered for a tearful candlelit vigil for Singh Friday evening Authorities launched a massive two-day manhunt for Arriaga after shooting […]
