Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to arrest violent criminal illegal aliens across the United States even as the federal government remains shut down. Despite the funding impasse driven by Democrat demands, ICE officers have carried out multiple operations targeting foreign nationals convicted of serious crimes, including child sexual assault, manslaughter, and domestic violence.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned eight Mexican individuals and twelve companies based in Mexico that are connected to the Sinaloa Cartel.
The U.S. National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) has exposed a horrifying operation in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, where a faction of the Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) allegedly murdered pregnant women to harvest organs and sell their babies to U.S. couples. The revelation underscores the growing brutality of Mexico’s cartel-terror networks and their diversification into human trafficking.
Two states in Mexico, Sinaloa and Michoacán, have scaled back or cancelled Independence Day festivities due to escalating cartel violence. In Sinaloa, authorities restricted events to a daytime civic ceremony, eliminating concerts, fireworks, and public gatherings. In Michoacán, multiple municipalities called off their celebrations entirely, citing threats and recent attacks as the reason.
U.S. officials have ordered the deployment of 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico as part of President Donald Trump’s expanded effort to dismantle drug cartels operating in the Caribbean.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury is intensifying efforts to crack down on global cartel financing, revealing that Chinese money laundering networks are working directly with Mexican drug cartels to move billions of dollars. The findings highlight a growing alliance between two of America’s most dangerous adversaries—China and the cartels fueling the fentanyl epidemic.
