Mexico

A previously deported Mexican national with a violent criminal history was arrested Thursday outside Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Houston Field Office after approaching the facility armed with a knife and carrying a crack pipe. Homeland Security officials say the incident underscores the daily dangers faced by immigration officers as they confront rising threats from repeat offenders.

A Sinaloa Cartel member told CNN that President Trump’s border crackdown has made criminal activity harder.

A teen plastic surgery tragedy in Mexico has shocked parents worldwide after 14-year-old Paloma Nicole Arellano Escobedo died from complications following a breast augmentation and butt lift carried out without her father’s knowledge.

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.

Voters in Arizona's 7th Congressional District are casting ballots in a special election to fill the vacant seat left by the late U.S. Representative Raúl Grijalva, a Democrat who died in March from complications related to cancer treatment. The district, which spans Arizona’s southern border with Mexico, includes portions of Cochise, Maricopa, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, and Yuma counties, as well as parts of Phoenix and Tucson.

Cocaine in the United States is now cheaper and purer than in past decades, fueled by the growing dominance of Mexican drug cartels.

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.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum publicly condemned the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, expressing opposition to political violence during her Thursday morning news conference. Kirk was shot and killed Wednesday at a public event in Utah, sparking national outrage and bipartisan condemnation in the U.S.

The DEA arrested 617 suspected Sinaloa Cartel members in 23 states, seizing fentanyl, meth, cocaine, guns, and millions in cash.

Multiple major events tied to Mexican Independence Day have been canceled in Chicago as President Donald Trump prepares to deploy National Guard troops and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to the city. The decision comes amid heightened tensions surrounding Trump’s ongoing national push to crack down on violent crime and illegal immigration.