El Paso Border Crossing Reopened after Four-Hour Closure
At one point, the migrants, who were demanding asylum in the United States, resorted to violence, hurling a large orange plastic barrier at U.S. immigration officials
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Mexican Airspace Now Fully under Military Control
Deputies from the Citizen’s Movement Party (MC) voted against the law, noting that it is a new measure that gives more power to the Mexican Armed Forces
Read moreUS Prosecutors Ask Biden to Classify Mexican Cartels as Terrorists
These cartels are doing much more than smuggling poison into the United States. They are assassinating rivals and government officials, ambushing and killing Americans at the border, and participating in an armed insurgency against the Mexican government
Read moreDetentions of Mexican Migrants Soar at US-Mexico Border
By MARK LORENZANA In a span of seven months, between October 2021 and May 2022, the arrests of Mexican migrants trying to cross into the United States soared 35.2 percent. There had been 560,579 arrests in that period, compared to 414,345 arrests from October 2020 to May 2021, according to U.S. government figures. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
Read moreTrump’s Border Wall Breached 3,000 Times in Three Years
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF According to a recent report from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency obtained by the Washington Post, Mexican smugglers sawed through new segments of the border wall build by former U.S. President Donald Trump 3,272 times over the past three years. The report pointed out that the U.S. government spent $2.6 million
Read more14 Mexican Soldiers Cross Illegally into US, One with Marijuana
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Border Patrols officers temporarily detained 14 Mexican soldiers on Saturday, Sept. 25, for crossing into the United States over a border bridge in El Paso, Texas, without proper documentation. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement that two Mexican military vehicles crossed the bridge that connects El Paso with
Read moreUndocumented Migrants to US Reach Highest Level in 20 Years
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Nearly 179,000 undocumented migrants were encountered along the U.S.-Mexico border in April, the highest one-month total in more than two decades, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Tuesday, May 11, although they said that there were fewer unaccompanied children. According to Customs and Border Protection figures, 17,171 unaccompanied migrant children were found in
Read moreUS Launches Smuggling Probe into Deadly California Crash
XINHUA The traffic collision that killed 13 people in California near the border with Mexico on Tuesday, March 2, is now under human smuggling investigation by U.S. federal agency, local media reported Wednesday, March, 3. The burgundy Ford Expedition crossed the U.S. border with Mexico by driving through a hole cut into the border fence early Tuesday, March 2, local
Read moreMexico and US Get Ready to Rumble, Again
By RICARDO CASTILLO Hopefully, I’m wrong in my appraisal of curent Mexico-U.S. bilateral relations, but it all points in the direction that the pushy administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is about to shove the Mexican government again. Lest we forget the predicament of last May, President Trump threatened to impose a 25 percent punishment export tariff on all merchandise
Read moreMigrants Are Stressing the Border
By RICARDO CASTILLO The question of what to do with the thousands of Central American migrants passing through Mexico still remains unanswered. So far, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has opted to follow the same erratic policy begun by his predecessor, Enrique Peña Nieto, only to see the flux of migrants grow exponentially. The point being now that
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