Border / Cartel Chronicles

The massive numbers of families crossing the southwestern border continues to pull agents from their security missions to care for migrants. The vice president of the National Border Patrol Council recently told Fox News, “We’ve lost control of the border.”

Border Patrol agents are currently holding an average of 8,000 migrants per day in facilities in the Rio Grande Valley Sector of South Texas. This represents about half of the total number of migrants in U.S. custody nationwide.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – Sicarios del Cártel del Golfo emboscaron a un convoy de soldados mexicanos cerca de la frontera de Texas, iniciando una feroz batalla armada donde varios soldados resultaron heridos. Información extra-oficial indica que varios sicarios murieron en el enfrentamiento, sin embargo, el número de víctimas sigue sin estar claro.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – Gulf Cartel gunmen ambushed a convoy of Mexican soldiers near the Texas border, setting off a fierce battle where several troops were injured Sunday. Unofficial information indicates that several gunmen died. The casualty breakdown remains unclear.

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Las autoridades están en alerta máxima en esta región fronteriza después de que un grupo de sicarios dejo cinco cuerpos afuera de un edificio de policía y atacó a un grupo de oficiales municipales hiriendo gravemente a dos de ellos.

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Authorities are on high alert after a team of cartel gunmen dumped five bodies outside a police building and attacked a group of local officers.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — Tres oficiales de la policía estatal en esta ciudad fronteriza han sido arrestados en relación con el secuestro de un miembro del Cartel del Golfo para pedir rescate.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas – Three state police officers were arrested in connection with the ransom kidnapping of a local Gulf Cartel member.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent warned that our nation has “lost control of the border,” during an interview on Fox News Channel.

Police in southern California announced on Friday the arrests of two men linked to the Mexican-based Sinaloa Cartel. The men allegedly operated a drug-trafficking cell in Apple Valley, California. The multi-agency investigation also led to the seizure of 500 pounds of methamphetamine worth $1.25 million dollars. 

The record-setting waves of migrants flowing into the Rio Grande Valley Sector forced U.S. Border Patrol agents to build tents outside of their stations for temporary housing. Some migrants were also held in parking lots. The new measures come after a newly built tent facility nearby already reached its maximum capacity.

A Kenyan illegal alien is charged with capital murder in connection to the alleged robberies and murders of 12 elderly women.

A police commander in the border state of Sonora was assassinated Friday morning by cartel gunmen as he was loading into his unmarked duty vehicle in front of a pharmacy. The murder occurred in Hermosillo.

A former Mexican governor and a ranking state judge are the latest politicians outed by the U.S. Department of Treasury for for allegedly accepting bribes. One of the named cartels is violent to the point that some U.S. officials are considering labeling the group a foreign terrorist organization.

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas – Las autoridades de México están investigando dos intentos diferentes de asalto a autobuses de pasajeros a lo largo de las carreteras que conducen a la frontera con Texas. Uno de los intentos de asalto llevó a que un autobús se volcara, matando a un pasajero e hiriendo a 16 otros.

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas – Authorities are investigating two separate attempts to carjack passenger buses along the highways that lead to the Texas border. One of the failed attempts led to a rollover, killing a passenger and injuring 16 more.

A previously deported Honduran national attempted to illegally re-enter the United States by utilizing a six-month-old boy as a “fake” son to make a fraudulent family claim, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials allege. ICE agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) determined there was no familial relationship between the man and the little boy.

Police in Chihuahua apprehended an alleged leader for “La Gente Nueva” Sunday, which operates as the armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel.

Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents discovered more than 100 migrants in a tractor-trailer after a K-9 alerted to the possible presence of drugs or human cargo at an immigration checkpoint in South Texas.

Mexican authorities found the body of a murdered journalist who was apparently beaten to death and dumped outside a bar near Cancun. The scene was just blocks away from another bar where two gunmen shot 12.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a family of Central American migrants who became trapped in a kiddie pool “raft” that was snared by a tree in the middle of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass.

New video surfaced on social media in Mexico showing in graphic detail the moment when two cartel gunmen walked to a bar near Cancun and shot 12 patrons before fleeing. No arrests have been made in the case to date.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Oklahoma announced the indictment of 29 alleged members and co-conspirators of a drug trafficking organization with ties to the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). The 29 are accused of participating in a criminal enterprise to possess and distribute heroin and perform money laundering.

A previously deported criminal alien from Mexico assaulted a Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agent during an arrest. The Mexican national with an extensive criminal history was traveling with a large group of migrants near the immigration checkpoint on Highway 57 in South Texas.

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Las autoridades de esta ciudad fronteriza están investigando el asesinato de una mujer que parece haber sido ejecutada como amenaza por parte del crimen organizado contra las autoridades.

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – Authorities are looking into the murder of a woman who was apparently killed by cartel gunmen as a threat to law enforcement.

Gunmen shot and killed an unidentified man near a tourist ferry dock in Cancun. The murder comes hours after two men shot 12 victims at a bar in nearby Playa Del Carmen.

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents seized more than $2 million in methamphetamine at an inland checkpoint located about 70 miles from the Texas-Mexico border.

Mexican Federal Police rescued 150 Central American migrants abandoned by human smugglers inside a cargo truck in Veracruz Monday night.

A man fleeing Mexican authorities in Tijuana ran over five street vendors and crashed into several vehicles at a port of entry connecting to California. Other vendors nearly mobbed the man before authorities intervened.