Tag: Mexico

Mexico Flooded America’s Borders With Secret ‘Ant Operation’: Todd Bensman

The Biden administration struck a deal with the Mexican government to delay the migrant caravans heading into the United States, yet by maintaining the allure of special benefits for people if they can reach the U.S. border, the incentive created a new crisis in Mexico. To get around this, the Mexican government launched an operation…


Mexico Flooded America’s Borders With Secret Human Smuggling ‘Ant Operation’: Todd Bensman

The Biden administration struck a deal with the Mexican government to delay the migrant caravans heading into the United States, yet by maintaining the allure of special benefits for people if they can reach the U.S. border, the incentive created a new crisis in Mexico. To get around this, the Mexican government launched an operation…


Texas Receives Millions of Dollars Worth of Border Materials From Federal Government for Mexico Wall

The state of Texas has received millions of dollars worth of border wall material from the federal government after the Biden administration halted construction of the project. According to the Washington Examiner, more than 1,700 steel panels—declared surplus property by the federal government—were shipped from California to Texas last week to be used to build the barrier on the Mexican border. Texas Facilities Commission…


Democrat Attorneys General Side With Mexico in Lawsuit Against Gun Manufacturers

Fourteen Democrat attorneys general are backing the Mexican government in a lawsuit against American gun manufacturers. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey on Jan. 31 filed a brief in Mexico v. Smith & Wesson, along with other 13 attorneys general—all Democrats—arguing that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), a federal law, cannot be…


FBI’s ‘Most Wanted’ Fugitive Caught in Mexico After 16 Years

An alleged killer on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list was captured in Mexico after being on the run since 2006, the FBI said on Feb. 4. Octaviano Juarez-Corro, 48, is alleged to have killed two people and injured three others during a Memorial Day 2006 picnic at Milwaukee’s South Shore Park on Lake Michigan,…


Mexico Plans State Lithium Company, Questions Chinese Mine

MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s president said Wednesday he will create a state-owned company to mine lithium and appeared to suggest he will seek to cancel one of the few existing permits held by a Chinese company. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had said in October that he wants to declare lithium a “strategic mineral” and reserve future…


5.8 Tons of Methamphetamine Seized in Mexico

Army, National Guard, and Mexican federal prosecutors have seized more than 5.8 tons of methamphetamine in Sinaloa—the largest seizure of this drug by the current administration, which began in December 2018. A statement from the Defense Ministry on Saturday said the seizure took place two days earlier, on Jan. 27, in the northwestern state of…


13 People Die in Mexico Highway Accident

MEXICO CITY—Thirteen people were killed when their van overturned and flipped into a ditch on a highway in central Mexico, leaving another 10 people injured, officials said on Saturday. Seven of the victims who died were initially trapped inside the car, the emergency services agency from Jalisco state said on Twitter. The accident occurred near…


Killings of Canadians in Mexico Due to Gang Debt: Prosecutor

MEXICO CITY—A prosecutor in Mexico said Tuesday the killing of two Canadians at a Caribbean coast resort last week was motivated by debts between international gangs apparently dedicated to drug and weapons trafficking. On Friday, prosecutors said both dead men had criminal records in Canada, and one was a known felon with a long record…


Mexican President Says He Is Well After Hospital Stay for Check-Up

MEXICO CITY—Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Saturday reassured Mexicans that he was in good health following an overnight hospital stay for a cardiac catheterization procedure as part of a regular check-up. In a video, Lopez Obrador sat behind a desk and in a measured tone said the doctors cleared him to continue his…