Mexican drug cartels pose a “direct danger” to the safety and security of the United States, according to an internal State Department fact sheet obtained by NewsNation. The document outlines specific measures U.S. officials are taking to combat transnational criminal activity. More: https://tinyurl.com/yw9nekpr #cartels #southernborder #StateDepartment
Mexico has pledged cooperation, but some top U.S. officials are frustrated with corruption involving cartel leaders
While much attention is given to Ukraine and Russia’s use of drones, just south of the United States, Mexico’s cartels are using drones in significant […] Source
CNN reviewed hundreds of videos, analyzed state drone-detection data and traveled to the US-Mexico border to investigate how cartels and other criminal groups are using drones in their operations.
For the first time in a year, the U.S.-Mexico border partly reopened to cattle imports following a screwworm infestation across the region. The battle against the flesh-eating fly has only just begun deep in Mexico.
A Mexican military operation targeting cartel fuel smugglers in the border state of Tamaulipas uncovered a private ranch holding 135 exotic and endangered animals, exposing yet another layer of the criminal enterprise bleeding Mexico's state oil company dry. Soldiers raiding five properties on Thursday found Bengal tigers, jaguars, bison, hyenas, mandrills, and a camel among […] The post Mexican military finds 135 exotic animals — including Bengal tigers and jaguars — during fuel smuggling raids near U.S. border appeared first on American Almanac .
A Mexican military operation targeting cartel fuel smugglers in the border state of Tamaulipas uncovered a private ranch holding 135 exotic and endangered animals, exposing yet another layer of the criminal enterprise bleeding Mexico's state oil company dry. Soldiers raiding five properties on Thursday found Bengal tigers, jaguars, bison, hyenas, mandrills, and a camel among the animals kept at the ranch, with 35 of the 135 creatures classified as endangered species. The same sweep seized 18,000 gallons of diesel fuel, fuel tanks, pumps, firearms, and tools, and ended with one arrest on site. The raids came the same day Mexico's attorney general's office formally charged Fernando Farias, a high-ranking officer who had been expelled from…Open
Big Bend National Park in Texas will not receive the 30-foot steel border wall once planned for it. Instead, the remote national park along the Texas-Mexico border will get new border patrol roads, vehicle barriers and “detection technology” as the federal government moves ahead with a much bigger border buildout across West Texas. Public land advocates say the construction will damage the national parks and hurt wildlife, while former Border Patrol officer Thaddeus Cleveland also called the wall "unnecessary." NewsNation's Ali Bradley reports. Get a fast-paced look at the latest from the border to Main Street to the White House on "NewsNation Live" with Nichole Berlie. Weekdays starting at 12p/11C. NewsNation is your source for…
A "smart wall" buoy border going up in Texas is receiving government funding, but critics are still questioning whether the project will be effective. #immigration #border #Texas Get a fast-paced look at the latest from the border to Main Street to the White House on "NewsNation Live" with Nichole Berlie. Weekdays starting at 12p/11C. NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, who has died at 71, was the first Latino to win the PEN/Faulkner. His YA novel “Aristotle and Dante” brought him international fame.
Sec. Markwayne Mullin talks with NewsNation's Ali Bradley, Senior Border and Immigration Correspondent about the recent death at Delaney Hall ICE facility in New Jersey, deportation numbers and crime crackdown at the border. #markwaynemullin #homelandsecurity #ice #borderpatrol