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It's about 250 miles away, but Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White says the drug war in Juarez, Mexico is spilling over to the Albuquerque-area. He says his deputies are dealing with a spike in drugs, and he says that the drug cartels are behind at least one murder in town. Deputies say 53-year-old Danny Baca was shot more than 20 times out on the West Mesa before his body was burned. Authorities believe it was all a result of Baca double-crossing one of the Mexican cartels in Juarez, Investigators say Baca took a load of marijuana to Albuquerque instead of...

In the wake of a major gun seizure in Matamoros by Mexican army troops, American law enforcement officials are optimistic about the safety of those living on the U.S. side of the border. The seizure took place Wednesday afternoon at the corner of 18th and Madrid streets when patrolling troops with the 10th Motorized Cavalry Regiment, came across an abandoned 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe, according to a press release by the 8th Military Zone stationed in Reynosa. The vehicle had Tamaulipas license plates and had been reported stolen, the release said. According to the Mexican army, inside the SUV, soldiers found...

Mexican drug cartels use a “blood wire” to send money to drug and human smugglers, according to Arizona’s attorney general, who testified earlier this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “Western Union is by far the largest provider of illicit money-movement services, so it is the source of valuable information about illicit money movements and has been the focus of interdiction efforts aimed at criminal proceeds in transit,” Terry Goddard, Arizona’s attorney general, told senators. Goddard was one of several witnesses who testified March 17 before the Judiciary Committee and the Senate International Narcotics Control Caucus on law enforcement responses...

Mexico troops enter drug war city Mexico hopes to have up to 7,000 troops in the city in a few days More than 1,500 Mexican troops have moved into a city on the US border being fought over by rival drug gangs.Soldiers moved into Ciudad Juarez to try to regain control of a city in which more than 2,000 people have been murdered over the past year. Officials say they intend to have 7,000 troops and police in position by the end of the week. Rival gangs are battling for control of the city, which is a key entry...

Recently, there has been a series of armed thefts of explosives from storage sites in Mexico along the southwest U.S. border. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) would like to remind all Federal explosives licensees and permittees of the importance of security at their explosives storage sites, and we advise all industry members to take heightened security precautions in light of these thefts. This advisory is a precaution and not due to any criminal intelligence. Additionally, ATF partners with the explosives industry to protect the public and as part of this ongoing effort, industry members are commended...

PHOENIX (Reuters) – Hit men dressed in fake police tactical gear burst into a home in Phoenix, rake it with gunfire and execute a man.

Texas State Senator, Dan Patrick, was on FoxNews this morning at 8:45am. He said he had some “breaking news to share”. Boy was it!!! The Texas State Legislature had been trying very hard to get the Obama Administration to respond to a critical situation on the Texas Border. The Administration had not gotten back with Texas as of last night. So the State of Texas told Washington D.C. basically they could go jump, and “we’ll take care of Texas!”. As of last night… the Texas National Guard has been put on High Alert!!! This is the first time in history!...

NUEVO LAREDO - Two men and a woman have been charged with alleged involvement in a gunbattle that occurred earlier this week between Mexican Army troops and drug traffickers, officials announced Friday. The three suspects, who officials said were detained Feb. 17, the day of the gunbattle, were presented by military authorities to the federal prosecutor's office Friday and formally accused of participating in the assault. On Tuesday, officials would not comment on the exchange of gunfire. Fernando Rodríguez López, 18, Julio César Ureste Hernández, 22, and Martha Gómez Tovar, 20, have been turned over to the federal attorney general's...

Just as government officials had feared, the drug violence raging in Mexico is spilling over into the United States. Investigators fear the violence could erupt elsewhere around the country because the Mexican cartels are believed to have set up drug-dealing operations all over the U.S., in such far-flung places as Anchorage, Alaska; Boston; and Sioux Falls, South Dakota. "They are capable of doing about anything," said Rusty Payne, a Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman in Washington. "When you are willing to chop heads off, put them in an ice chest and drop them off at a police precinct, or roll a...

At a time of increased violence, corruption, and financial strain, Mexico is reported to be on the verge of collapse. US troops stationed near the border are warned not to go into Mexico, 200 Americans have been killed in Mexico since 2004, and the U.S. Department of Defense recently listed Mexico second only to Pakistan as a country capable of completely collapsing. In response to what appears to be near-anarchy in Mexico, Texas law enforcement is preparing for the worst; though, officials acknowledge that preparations for a huge influx of refugees may also be necessary. The town of Juárez, Mexico,...

A MALE corpse wearing a nappy and another dressed in women's clothes were among 17 bodies found near Mexico's northern border. "One had a pacifier hanging around his neck and was only wearing a diaper, while the second was dressed as a woman," said Jose Manuel Yepiz, spokesman for the prosecutor's office of northwestern Baja California state. Police found a total of five bodies in the border city of Tijuana across from San Diego in the US, and 12 others in the violent state of Chihuahua, including one decapitated body and three that had been tortured. Violence has escalated in...

LISTEN ONLINE ON KFI IN LOS ANGELES Tue 06.03 >> Author Jerome Corsi and filmmaker Chris Burgard will discuss the making of Border, an investigative documentary on the turbulent state of America's southern border with Mexico. First Hour: John M. Curtis comments on the election; Alex Jones reports on the Bilderburg meeting.

Organized, well-financed and violent Mexican kidnapping cells are targeting a growing number of U.S. citizens visiting communities popular with San Diegans and other California residents. Advertisement Last year, at least 26 San Diego County residents were kidnapped and held for ransom in Tijuana, Rosarito Beach or Ensenada, local FBI agents overseeing the cases said yesterday.

Mexico ousts hundreds of police commanders Government is cracking down on corruption By James C. McKinley Jr. NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE June 26, 2007 MEXICO CITY – Mexico purged 284 commanders from the top ranks of its federal police forces yesterday as part of the government's effort to contain corruption and halt an underworld war between drug traffickers. “We know Mexicans demand an honest, clean and trustworthy police force,” Public Security Secretary Genaro García Luna said at a news conference. “It's obvious there are mafias that are acting to keep the situation from changing, to continue enriching themselves through...

(On This Day In History) June 22, 1876: General Santa Anna Dies In Mexico City Embittered and impoverished, the once mighty Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna dies in Mexico City. Born in 1792 at Jalapa, Vera Cruz, Mexico, Santa Anna was the son of middle-class parents. As a teen, he won a commission in the Spanish army and might have been expected to live out an unspectacular career as a middle-level army officer. However, the young Santa Anna quickly distinguished himself as a capable fighter and leader, and after 1821, he gained national prominence in the successful Mexican war for...

Posted at the website that first broke the news about the uniformed paramilitary force on the border in Arizona: About my incendiary EXCLUSIVE report on Monday concerning the Mexican paramilitary force on the Arizona border: I already had two official, unimpeachable sources and one unofficial source for the story I published on Monday. I vetted it thoroughly before I published it, but I could not - and would not - reveal my sources' names. That brought me a lot of heat from skeptics. In the last 48 hours I've since been called a conspiracy theorist, liar, fraud, charlatan, hack, and...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico said Friday it will try to persuade President Bush not to sign a bill that would extend a wall along the border in an effort to stop illegal immigrants. Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez strongly criticized the legislation to build a 700-mile border fence, which the Senate approved Friday and sent to Bush to sign. Derbez said Mexico will send a letter to the U.S. government strongly condemning the measure. Asked by a reporter if the government would try to "dissuade" Bush from signing the bill into law, he replied, "Without a doubt." "We have...

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's attorney general said the arrest a group of corrupt cops along the border with California is imminent. Daniel Cabeza de Vaca told a Mexico City news conference today the cops protected a Tijuana cartel, the Arellano Felix gang, which smuggled tons of pot, cocaine and meth into the United States. Two were already arrested Saturday and charged with taking bribes to protect the gang. The attorney general said they worked at the Rosarito police department just over the border from San Diego border. The two are accused of decapitating three of their fellow officers. The news...

YUMA, Ariz. -- A U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a man who was throwing rocks at officers from the Mexican side of the border late Saturday, officials said. The incident began after agents spotted a suspicious vehicle near the Andrade Port of Entry west of the California-Arizona border, just north of the international border and alongside the Colorado River. The driver fled and then tried to swim across a pond along the river in an effort to return to Mexico, the agency said in a press release. But the man began to struggle to stay afloat and agents threw...

By LEO W. BANKS Leo W. Banks The Morales family, from left: Alex, Susie and Heriberto. Leo W. Banks Before he approaches a pasture, Sonny Clarke scans the area with binoculars for signs of danger. Leo W. Banks A cup hangs from the Morales water tank, an invitation for passers-by to drink. Leo W. Banks Morales wrote her letter to Alejandro Mata's mom from her kitchen table. Leo W. Banks "When you have to wear a bulletproof vest because of gang snipers on public land in your own country, it's pretty bad," says Jake Brown. Susie Clarke Morales lives in...

Gang violence has left its mark on Nuevo Laredo Raul Llamas inspects the gaping holes gouged in the wall of a house in Nuevo Laredo by a rocket-propelled grenade. "It's like Iraq, isn't it? We are in the middle of a war here. Two narco-trafficking gangs are trying to get control," the Mexican radio journalist says. He used to report on the cartels for a local radio station. But one of his colleagues was killed earlier this year. Now he does different stories. "It's very difficult to be a reporter here," he says. "People are too scared." Police deaths The...

JAFFREY, N.H. -- Illegal immigrants charged with criminal trespassing by two New Hampshire police chiefs will have to wait for a decision that could set a national precedent on whether local law can be applied to people in the country illegally. Jaffrey District Court Judge L. Phillips Runyon III yesterday said he would continue to study the matter before ruling on the case against eight illegal immigrants charged by a police chief in Hudson, N.H., with trespassing. "I know there are many people anxious to have a decision," said Runyon to a courtroom packed with journalists, defendants, relatives, and Latino...

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — A ranking municipal police official was gunned down late Wednesday on a street corner two blocks from the U.S. Consulate. It's the latest in a rash of shootings here that's left a radio reporter in critical condition, an attorney dead and a state police commander in hiding. Jose Antonio Santos Salazar, who was in his early 50s, suffered multiple bullet wounds about 8 p.m. as he arrived at his home, an investigator with the state of Tamaulipas ministerial police said. Officials found nine bullet casings at the scene, in an upper-class residential area. Police said Santos...

CIUDAD ACUÑA, Mexico — Most years, this industrial city sits like the quiet kid in the back of the classroom, spared from the armed bullies that haunt its peers on the Texas-Mexico border like Juárez and Nuevo Laredo. But not this year. A band of thugs who claim to be Zetas —— deserters from the Mexican army turned enforcement arm of the Gulf Cartel, which controls drug-shipping routes into South Texas —— have started targeting wealthy business owners here, mainly auto dealers. In recent months, they've stolen vehicles, extorted thousands of dollars and whipped captives on the back of the...

NUEVO LAREDO A State Preventive Police commander was wounded during an ambush Sunday morning. Investigators found more than 300 shell casings at the scene of the 11:40 a.m. attack, at the intersection of Cesar Lopez de Lara and Guatemala streets. Three other officers and a civilian were also wounded in the attack. Commander Javier Nuñez Raso suffered critical injuries and was taken to Specialties Clinic hospital, where he underwent surgery for his wounds. Police ordered hospital staff not to release any information concerning Nuñez Rasos condition. The other wounded officers and civilian were treated there for non-life threatening injuries. State...