The Trump administration has escalated its financial offensive against Mexican drug cartels, leveraging new terrorist designations and Treasury powers to dismantle their funding networks.
Trooper Christopher M. Gadd, 27, was killed in a high-speed crash on Interstate 5 near Marysville, Washington, in March 2024. Raul Benitez-Santana, a 33-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, now faces charges of vehicular homicide and vehicular assault. According to authorities, Benitez-Santana was driving over 100 mph while under the influence of alcohol and marijuana when he struck Trooper Gadd’s parked cruiser on the shoulder of the freeway at approximately 3 a.m.
President Donald Trump’s administration has suspended imports of live cattle, horses, and bison through ports of entry along the southern border in response to the advancing threat of the New World Screwworm (NWS), a flesh-eating parasite that has moved within 700 miles of the U.S. border. The order took immediate effect Sunday, announced by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins.
Mexico has initiated legal proceedings against Google for renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" on its U.S. platforms, a move following an executive order by President Donald Trump.
The U.S. and Mexico have inched closer to an agreement to end a decades-long sewage crisis that has fouled the Pacific waters off San Diego County, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum refused to address former President Donald J. Trump's claim that she is afraid of drug cartels, sidestepping the issue during a national press briefing. Trump had stated Sheinbaum was “so afraid of the cartels she can’t think straight,” following a phone call in which he offered to deploy U.S. troops to help dismantle cartel operations. Sheinbaum declined the offer and has since refrained from directly confronting Trump’s comments.
President Donald Trump has intensified efforts to involve the U.S. military directly in combating Mexican drug cartels, proposing a leading role for American forces in operations within Mexico.
The U.S. Department of State has issued a fresh security warning for Americans traveling to Los Cabos, as cartel violence surges in the once-popular beach resort area.
