In the middle of a military base outside Mexico City, an army colonel runs what he calls a kindergarten for dogs. Puppies that one day will become rescue dogs, or sniffer dogs for drugs or explosives, get their basic training at the facility — Mexico’s Army and Air Force Canine Production Center.

The rural South Texas border county of Zapata isn’t receiving state funds from Operation Lone Star in Fiscal Year 2024, and the county judge tells Border Report it sorely needs all the money it can get.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s top diplomat, Alicia Bárcena, said Friday that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants to travel to Washington D.C. in early November to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden about immigration, development aid and drug trafficking. The statement comes after a surge in migrants moving through Mexico forced the closure of some U.S.-Mexico border […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Ovidio Guzmán López, a son of former Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, pleaded not guilty in Chicago on Monday to U.S. drug trafficking, money laundering and other charges during his first court appearance since being extradited to the U.S. from Mexico. Guzmán López was extradited on Friday, five months after U.S. prosecutors unsealed […]

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico extradited Ovidio Guzmán López, a son of former Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, to the United States on Friday to face drug trafficking, money laundering and other charges, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. “This action is the most recent step in the Justice Department’s […]

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A federal grand jury in El Paso charged four alleged members of a drug trafficking organization on Wednesday, Sept. 13, regarding the trafficking of fentanyl and methamphetamine, as well as straw purchasing and the trafficking of firearms. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for West Texas says Maria del Rosario Navarro-Sanchez, 37, […]

A Phoenix-based police task force has arrested two alleged drug dealers and seized 41.5 pounds of fentanyl pills hidden in a pickup driving around a commercial parking lot.

The Americans injured in a weekend shooting in the northern Mexican border town of Miguel Alemán were mistakenly caught in crossfire from rival drug cartels not far from the South Texas border, a congressman told Border Report.

SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he is deploying more National Guard troops to the border to help fight the opioid crisis. According to the governor’s office, anywhere from 40 to 60 additional soldiers will be sent to the four U.S. ports of entry along the California-Mexico border to support the […]

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Twenty-eight House members are pushing for $4 billion in emergency funding to stem the flow of fentanyl at the border and process migrants more efficiently. In a letter to Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the Democrats emphasized the need for enhanced technology at ports of entry and more money for the […]