Migrants being sent back into Mexico over the Hidalgo International Bridge from McAllen to Reynosa paused to lace their sneakers and restart smartphones. The migrants floated across the Rio Grande River during a torrential downpour in the small hours of Tuesday morning, but were captured by Border Patrol agents and returned to Mexico within seven...
“Shoot them! Shoot them!” drug cartel thugs shouted as they chased Mexican soldiers out of Nueva Italia, a weigh station amid the lime groves of Tierra Caliente in western Michoacán state. The scenes of soldiers fleeing thugs scandalized Mexico – going viral on social media and offering a rude reminder of the increasing brazenness of...
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) took a rare foreign trip, traveling for the first time as president to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Belize and Cuba from May 5 to May 8. (He traveled twice previously to Washington, meeting Presidents Trump and Biden, and once to address the United Nations Security Council in New York.) He...
KINGSVILLE—The story of Texas is a story of adaption and resilience. The only alternative, really, is death. Nowhere is that more clear than here on the iconic King Ranch, with its 825,000 acres of inhospitality, patches of impassible scrub, and a dry vastness that calls for every ounce of Texas grit and ingenuity to overcome....
KINGSVILLE—King Ranch is so iconic that it gets regular nods from the television hit “Yellowstone.” “Look at the King Ranch down in Texas …” patriarch John Dutton says in one episode. “They made such a name for themselves you can buy a damn truck with their brand on the seat.” And that’s true; the King...
HIDALGO—From the actual high ground — from the bluffs overlooking the Rio Grande River — it’s hard to see how any of this makes sense. President Joe Biden’s inaction and inept policies on the southern U.S. border only increase the human carnage and suffering wrought by the Mexican drug cartels. This isn’t compassion; it’s complicity. The Texas...
Evidence continues to grow that Texas Hispanics are disenchanted with liberals. The 2016 and 2020 election results in South Texas surprised just about everyone and showed a significant rightward shift in historically deep blue counties along the border. And the most recent 2022 Texas primary elections featured a record number of Hispanic Republican candidates, as...
A 13-year-old child in Connecticut collapsed during gym class and was rushed to the hospital; he died two days later of what doctors concluded was a fentanyl overdose. Two other students at the school were also rushed to the hospital over similar concerns. When school officials investigated, they found 40 bags of powdered fentanyl hidden...
Slavery is alive and well today all across the world, and it comes in the form of human trafficking. January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Human trafficking is today’s form of slavery as men, women, and children are recruited and exploited by being forced into labor against their will. There are many forms of...
The year 2021 saw the new administration in Washington unleash a historic crisis along America’s southern border with grave repercussions for the entire nation. Through a series of deliberate decisions that simultaneously enabled massive abuse of the US asylum system and sharply curtailed federal immigration law enforcement, in practically no time the Biden-Harris administration created...
The southern border is being overrun by human traffickers, drug smugglers and others who want to do harm to our country. While the humanitarian tragedy grips the headlines, the unprecedented level of dangerous drugs flooding the border is already doing considerable damage. The threat is existential, but Texas is stepping up as the current administration...
In a little over one week, the small town of Del Rio, Texas saw more than 15,000 migrants surge their border. Thanks to the quick response from Texas, the migrant-made encampment has been cleared, but that does not mean the crisis is averted. Border Patrol sectors across Texas continue to apprehend and rescue migrants attempting...