Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents seized almost 3,400 pounds of marijuana worth nearly $1.7 million in separate incidents over the weekend in the West Desert, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Monday.... Read more»
South of the border, war is raging with guns mostly supplied by merchants in the United States. Mexico has estimated that almost 50,000 people have been killed since 2006, a toll that has made its top officials irate about the persistent flow of weapons south.... Read more»2
Regina Martinez, a crime reporter who covered drug trafficking for investigative Mexican news magazine Proceso, was found dead in Veracruz state on Saturday.... Read more»
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission on Friday said that 3 million minors work in the country, half without pay.... Read more»
A 32-year-old Mexican man was arrested after trying to smuggle nearly 41 pounds of cocaine through the DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales.... Read more»
Transcript and audio recording of oral arguments before the Supreme Court on Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration enforcement law.... Read more»
A 46-year-old Florida man found himself in hot water on Tuesday when he tried to bring fruit into the United States. Forbidden fruit, that is. And some pork rinds.... Read more»
A 30-year-old Mexico City man, who was convicted of robbery in California in 2005, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for illegal re-entry into the United States by a felon.... Read more»
More big fish have been netted in Mexican authorities’ battle against the country’s largest drug cartel. Two nephews of one of the leaders of the Sinaloa have been arrested on drug charges.... Read more»
A high-ranking member of a Mexican drug trafficking organization was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for moving tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana and hundreds of pounds of heroin and cocaine into the U.S.... Read more»
About two-thirds of the weapons recovered by Mexican authorities since 2007 and submitted to U.S. law enforcement for tracing had origins in the United States, according to data released today by the U.S. Department of Justice.... Read more»
Mexico’s drug war has damaged its reputation with its most frequent visitors, U.S. travelers. As a result, Mexico is trying to change perception by any means necessary.... Read more»2
Supporters of Arizona’s SB 1070 were buoyed Wednesday after a U.S. Supreme Court hearing in which most justices appeared skeptical of the federal challenge to central parts of the immigration law.... Read more»
Federal authorities in Mexico announced Wednesday they would investigate to find if government officials at the national level were involved in alleged bribery by the U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart.... Read more»
Travelers driving into Mexico next week through the Mariposa Port of Entry in Nogales will find a shift in traffic flow.... Read more»
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