North America
Trump: drug war general to Homeland Security
Gen. John Kelly, Trump's choice for Homeland Security secretary, is ex-chief of the Pentagon's Southern Command who clashed with Obama over his hardline views.
Tag: struggle for the border
North America
Trump cabinet list bespeaks concentration camps
Joe Arpaio and Rudolph Giuliani, short-listed for Homeland Security secretary, both have extensive experience in running detainment camps for undocumented immigrants.
North America
Sheriff Joe Arpaio charged with criminal contempt
A federal judge ordered Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio to be tried for criminal contempt over continuing his immigration patrols in defiance of court orders in a civil rights suit.
North America
National protests against immigration raids
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched a new wave of deportations of Central American migrants, protests against the raids were carried out across the country.
Central America
Central America: US returns migrants to danger
Border Patrol agents rush through interviews with Central Americans seeking to flee gangs and then send them home to the "threat of murder, rape and other violence."
Mexico
ISIS to attack US through Mexico …Not!
John McCain prompted testimony from a Homeland Security official that ISIS could seek to infiltrate the US through Mexico. The media jumped on it, but there's nothing there.
Mexico
US Border Patrol smuggled arms for Sinaloa Cartel?
A protected witness testified to Mexican prosecutors that members of the US Border Patrol collaborated with the Sinaloa Cartel in arms trafficking to the criminal network.
Central America
Central America: US acts on child migrant ‘danger’
US officials designate the arrival of unaccompanied children at the border a security problem–and scramble to shift blame from Washington's own failed "drug war."
Mexico
Mexico: narcos abduct migrants —again
Tamaulipas state police resuced 73 abducted migrants outside Reynosa after following their apparent captors to a house and hearing frantic calls for help.
Mexico
Mexico: army rescues 165 kidnapped migrants
Thousands of migrants continue to be killed or kidnapped each year as they try to cross Mexico to the US; activists say Mexican officials are involved in some of the crimes.
Mexico
Mexico: study says arms smuggling keeps US dealers in business
A new study correlating arms sales with dealers’ locations estimates that about a quarter of a million firearms purchased in the US are smuggled into Mexico each year.
Mexico
Border Patrol shot youth in back, autopsy confirms
After four months neither the US or the Mexican government has much to say about the death of an unarmed Mexican minor gunned down in Mexico by US agents.