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A graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, has been killed in Mexico — where his bullet-riddled body was found in his SUV after his fiancée reported him missing on his trip to conduct field research about plants. Gabriel Trujillo, 31, a botanist and fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology, was shot seven times June 19 in the northwest state of Sonora and his body was discovered three days later, his family said.

..America’s largest settlement of illegal immigrants, one literally exploding in population amid a U.S.-government fomented mass migration border crisis. In Liberty County, and now spreading into neighboring San Jacinto County.. a new diversity of violent crime, murder, all-night weapons firing, and cartel drug trafficking that has boomed alongside the population. Indifferent U.S. immigration enforcement agencies leave this area to itself.

-A gunman shot at a vehicle the Tijuana mayor's bodyguard was in -Three people were arrested for this incident, but threats haven't stopped -Mexico's president spoke out in defense of Mayor Montserrat Caballero Montserrat Caballero, the mayor of the Mexican border city of Tijuana, right across from San Diego, California, has been receiving threats from the drug cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación. These threats drew the attention of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who promised during a news conference last Thursday to protect Caballero from any possible threats of violence. “Montserrat is not alone, she has all our backing,” López...

Advanced money-laundering techniques and clandestine precursor imports combine to stoke the opioid crisis – can the US stem the flow? For a few days in April, news sites across Latin America were running Instagram photos of a glamorous blond woman enjoying trips around the world. There were pictures of Ana Gabriela Rubio Zea, 32, posing in a blue dress and Yves Saint Laurent handbag outside San Miguel de Allende, ice skating in a miniskirt in Central Park and laughing in the Forbidden City. The social media images were then followed by more recent photos: Rubio, in a sweatshirt and jeans,...

Near as I can figure, Biden is a drug cartel asset. On May 11 the floodgates of hell open. Actually, they're already open. Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas are working hand in hand with the human traffickers and drug smugglers along the border. They have posted exactly what they intend to do and not do and where it will and won't be done. NEWS: Federal authorities will conduct an enforcement op in El Paso, Texas, targeting migrants who crossed the US-Mexico border and were not processed by immigration authorities, starting Tuesday, sources tell me + @RosaFlores, as the city grapples...

This is a video interview of Mike Gill conducted by Jeff Prather. Gill tells a helluva story about his ongoing battle to disclose government corruption, the drug cartels, and the Deep State.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called for all Hispanics residing in the United States to vote against Republicans, saying "they are a corrupt, inhumane, and hypocritical party. They say they are for freedom, yet they actively harass the entrepreneurs who facilitate the movement of people and merchandise across this border. Now, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) is calling for US troops to enter Mexico and kill these entrepreneurs." Graham defended himself by pointing out "I've been a leading proponent for getting our troops to engage in the fighting in Ukraine to help preserve their borders, but people have criticized me...

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday he will introduce a bill laying the groundwork ​for President Biden to use US military force against Mexican drug cartels. Graham (R-SC) was reacting to the kidnapping of four Americans in the border city of Matamoros — two of whom were found dead Tuesday — and the continued proliferation of dangerous drugs, including highly lethal fentanyl, brought into the United States by the cartels. “This administration has done nothing about it,” Graham told Fox News’ Jesse Watters. “I’m going to introduce legislation, Jesse, to make certain Mexican drug cartels foreign terrorist organizations under US law...

Tamaulipas Gov. Américo Villarreal made the announcement over the phone at a presidential news conference Tuesday morning, noting that one of the surviving victims is wounded. Two of the four Americans who were shot at by gunmen and kidnapped shortly after crossing the border into northern Mexico last week are dead, according to the governor of Tamaulipas state. Gov. Américo Villarreal made the announcement over the phone at a presidential news conference Tuesday morning, noting that the other Americans are alive. One of the surviving victims, however, is wounded, he said. The person's condition was not disclosed. The governor said...

ZINDELL BROWN, LATAVIA MCGEE, SHAEED WOODARD, ERIC JAMES WILLIAMS Mexican authorities announced on Tuesday that two U.S. citizens who were abducted last week in Matamoros have been found dead, while two others have been discovered alive. One of the surviving individuals was injured, while the other was unharmed, according to Tamaulipas Governor Américo Villarreal. The deceased were identified as Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown. The two who survived are Latavia Washington McGee and Eric Williams. The FBI had been working alongside Mexican authorities in the search for the missing Americans, who were abducted on Friday. A family member of one...

“I don’t feel that we should have forced testing, forced masking and forced vaccination” ... Following a 30 second bit on SNL where he branded big pharma as a ‘cartel’ forcing it’s drugs on people with government consent, actor Woody Harrelson has further spoken out against COVID mandates. In an interview with the New York Times, Harrelson warned that America is no longer a free country, branding COVID protocols as “rather absurd.” ... When asked what was “absurd about the COVID protocols,” Harrelson replied, “The fact that they’re still going on!” “I don’t think that anybody should have the right...

If it sounds too good to be true…. Okay folks, this is a story that dragged me into a rabbit hole for two days. If you have seen the video testimony of Ms. Jacqueline Breger in front of the Arizona Senate Committee investigating election issues, this outline is intended to help you navigate the story.On February 23, 2023, Ms. Breger delivered testimony to the Arizona Senate claiming documentary evidence that shows judges, politicians, police, local and state officials as well as multiple groups, organizations and individuals associated within government and elections operations the state of Arizona are being bribed and...

Gail Golec interviewed Attorney John Thaler who provides details about his claim that public officials in Arizona are involved in bribery and other forms of corruption. Little over 2 hours

The Arizona Senate and House Elections Committees yesterday heard testimony and presentations from multiple individuals regarding election anomalies and potential fraud in Arizona’s elections over many years. During the meeting, legislators considered a presentation by Jacqueline Breger, which, if true, exposed absolutely bombshell information regarding massive corruption and collusion between American politicians, appointed government officials, and the Sinaloa Cartels. The money laundering and racketeering scheme allegedly uses fraudulent mortgages, real estate transactions, and insurance claims in Maricopa County to hide money made through cartel human trafficking, drug trafficking, and bribery of elected officials, and to rig elections, intimidate, or murder...

A cartel leader and hitman fond of videotaping torture sessions and decapitating his enemies has gone missing from a federal prison in Florida, where he was serving a 49-year sentence. As of November, Edgar Valdez-Villareal, a Mexican-American cartel leader, had been mysteriously removed from the federal Bureau of Prisons web site. He is now listed as “not in BOP custody” even though his release date is not until July 27, 2056. Valdez-Villareal, 49, is known by his underworld moniker “La Barbie,” and headed up the the Los Negros, an enforcement group of the Beltran Leyva cartel — one of Mexico’s...

Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State and Central Intelligence Agency director, on Tuesday called on all Republicans to oppose a Democrat attempt to cram a bill that would create a mainstream media cartel into an unrelated defense bill. “Giving the media cartel power is bad enough. The JCPA’s ‘China loophole’ means this will benefit our adversaries. All Republicans should oppose cramming this bad bill in the NDAA,” Pompeo tweeted.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) claimed that the flailing media cartel bill is important for “national security” as Senate Democrats weigh trying to attach it to a defense bill. “We literally are going to lose one-third of the nation’s newspapers by the year 2025. It is about our own national future and national security,” Klobuchar said, according to a Bloomberg Government reporter.

Four Oklahoma men who were last seen riding their bicycles more than a week ago before being shot dead and dismembered were planning to commit a crime, police have said. Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice said the bodies found late last week in the Deep Fork River are those of Mark, 32, and Billy Chastain, 30, Mike Sparks, 32, and Alex Stevens, 29. The men were believed to have left a house in Okmulgee on bicycles the evening of October 9. The police chief said the official cause of death was pending but that all four men had gunshot wounds...

At least two people were shot in separate incidents in the Loop as revelers filled Chicago’s downtown area to celebrate Mexico’s Independence Day. At times, members of the crowd overwhelmed Chicago police, threw bottles and other objects at officers, and even tried to pull some cops from their patrol cars. Videos uploaded to the Citizen App showed people climbing on top of a CTA bus to wave Mexican flags. A sports car caught on fire outside the Roosevelt Red Line station while other souped-up vehicles spun donuts in downtown intersections. ...