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US officials have discovered an underground tunnel about the length of five football pitches used to smuggle drugs from Mexico to a warehouse in California. It is not known how long the secret passage, which has a railway track, ventilation systems, electricity and reinforced walls, had been operating. Investigators found the tunnel after staking out a home used to stash drugs in the Mexican border city of Tijuana and stopping vehicles near the warehouse in Otay Mesa, south of San Diego. They turned up boxes full of cocaine, according to a federal criminal complaint filed in San Diego. The warehouse was on a street that was busy during the day but quiet at night, with armed guards watching over a small shaft with a ladder that descended into the tunnel. Advertisement Agents raided the warehouse and found no drugs there but a tunnel opening carved into the cement floor. The passage, discovered last week, ran a third of a mile (532m) to Tijuana and was … [Read more...] about Underground drug-smuggling tunnel from Tijuana to Otay Mesa found on US-Mexico border

McAllen, Texas — Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday forcefully denounced the connection some Republican lawmakers have made between the national baby formula shortage and the availability of formula at migrant holding facilities along the U.S.-Mexico border. "We are taking care of the basic needs of people in our custody. We are taking care of the basic needs of babies, and that includes baby formula," Mayorkas told CBS News during an interview Tuesday near the Texas border. "The connection between honoring our humanitarian and legal obligation to those babies and a supply issue in the interior of the United States is false and repugnant." Conservative outrage over the availability of baby formula at border facilities first emerged last week after Congresswoman Kat Cammack, a Republican from Florida, published photos juxtaposing an alleged stockpile of baby formula at a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) processing site and a half empty store shelf. … [Read more...] about Mayorkas decries GOP attacks over baby formula at border facilities as “repugnant”

McAllen, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents stopped migrants entering the country unlawfully nearly 202,000 times along the southern border in April, a 4% drop from March, new government figures show. While it is a slight decrease from the 209,906 Border Patrol apprehensions recorded in March, April's tally shows that migrant arrests along the border with Mexico remained at a 22-year high, according to historical agency data . Moreover, the number of asylum-seekers processed by U.S. officials at ports of entry increased sharply in April, driven in part by record arrivals of Ukrainian refugees to the Tijuana-San Diego border. The Office of Field Operations, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency that oversees the country's ports of entry, processed more than 30,000 migrants in April, including 22,257 near San Diego, a 234% spike from March, according to government data provided to a federal court this week. Until April 25, U.S. border officials were admitting … [Read more...] about U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions dropped slightly in April, but remained at 22-year high

US authorities have found a cross-border drug-smuggling tunnel decked with a rail system and electricity, in a $25million narcotics bust. The "sophisticated" pathway is the length of six football fields and runs from Tijuana in Mexico to San Diego, California. It runs one-third of a mile, four feet deep in diameter, and about six stories deep. Police say it was discovered on Friday near San Diego's Otay Mesa border, an area where more than a dozen other sophisticated tunnels have been found. They seized 1,762 pounds of cocaine, 165 pounds of meth, and 3.5 pounds of heroin as part of the investigation. Additionally, six California residents between the ages of 31 to 55 were charged in connection. Read More News STAY SAFE Google warning for BILLIONS as thousands of 'leaky sites' found The tunnel exited the US in a nondescript warehouse named “Amistad Park.” It's not clear how long it had been operating or how many drugs got through … [Read more...] about Inside ‘sophisticated’ cross-border drug tunnel the length of six football fields after $25million narcotics bust

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) snapped on Sunday when confronted with remarks from Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, who blamed the some of the shortages of baby formula on President Joe Biden sending pallets of formula to the U.S. southern border. “Joe Biden continues to put America LAST by shipping pallets of baby formula to the southern border as American families face empty shelves,” Stefanik wrote on Twitter. “This is unacceptable. American mothers and their babies shouldn’t suffer because of the #BidenBorderCrisis.” Pelosi was asked during an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” whether the shortage was in-part due to Biden’s decision. “As usual, her statement is totally irresponsible,” Pelosi responded. “Babies are crying. We need to get them food. And the president has — now what we’re doing this week in the Congress is, again, Bobby Scott, chair of the Education and Labor Committee, that’s the jurisdiction … [Read more...] about Pelosi Snaps After Top Republican Blames Baby Formula Shortage On Democrats Shipping It To The Border | The Daily Wire

A US Army veteran who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan has been deported to Mexico over a drug conviction, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Miguel Perez Jr, a former resident of Chicago, said he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of his tours. After launching a hunger strike in the Wisconsin facility where he had been kept, Mr Perez was escorted to the border and handed over to Mexican authorities on late last week. Senator Tammy Duckworth, a military veteran herself, family, and friends of Mr Perez argued that he had a right to stay in the country despite the drug charge because of his military service. They argued he is in need of mental health and substance-abuse care in the US. Recommended Afghanistan veteran and father of two faces deportation “This case is a tragic example of what can happen when national immigration policies are based more in hate than on logic and ICE doesn’t feel … [Read more...] about US Army veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan deported to Mexico on a drug charge

A federal judge in Lafayette heard arguments Friday on whether the Biden administration should end a controversial Trump-era pandemic restriction, known as Title 42, later this month. Judge Robert Summerhays of the U.S. Western District of Louisiana confirmed Friday his temporary restraining order that stopped the Biden administration from processing the end of Title 42 on May 23, and said he would soon issue a ruling on the preliminary injunction. In a hearing that made Lafayette the battleground of a nationwide debate over immigration, Deputy Solicitor General of Arizona Drew Ensign presented the arguments of more than 20 Republican-led states, including Louisiana, that sued the Centers for Disease Control in April. Department of Justice attorney Jean Lin represented the federal government’s arguments in court. The Centers for Disease Control said its decision to end the policy was based on the wide availability of vaccines, a consistent decrease in the number of COVID-19 … [Read more...] about ‘Not an immigration law.’ As Lafayette judge weighs COVID policy, asylum seekers remain in limbo

In his last column for the Mexican regional newspaper Notiver , Miguel Angel Lopez Velasco wrote about femicide , nepotism and contaminated drinking water. Lopez Velasco, who was the deputy director of the Veracruz-based media outlet and used the pen name "Milo Vera," said the authorities had promised to deal with the problems. "And if not," he wrote, "we will remind them here." It never came to that. A few hours later, the 55-year-old was dead. In the early hours of June 20, 2011, his murderers came to the journalist's home under the cover of darkness while he was sleeping, smashed the front door and shot him dead, along with his wife, Agustina, and their youngest son, Miseal. They fired more than 400 bullets. Lopez Velasco, a respected journalist, knew the state of Veracruz like the back of his hand The police, stationed just one block away, did not even dispatch a patrol car. Ten years later, prosecutors have yet to find the perpetrators and a clear motive. Lopez … [Read more...] about Hague tribunal aims to investigate journalist killings

Texans have criticized Governor Greg Abbott over power generation issues after he repeatedly boasted about the state's power grid. "Another promise made and another promise broken. @GregAbbott_TX, perhaps you could put the additional $531 million you requested for your failed Operation Lone Star to good use and actually #FixTheGrid," Representative Veronica Escobar, a Texas Democrat, tweeted Saturday, referring to the governor's efforts to curb migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border. Her remark came after the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) asked Texans to conserve electricity after "six power generation facilities" went offline Friday amid rising temperatures and high demand for power. The power failures resulted in the loss of approximately 2,900 MW of electricity, according to the agency in a press release on its website. "We're asking Texans to conserve power when they can by setting their thermostats to 78-degrees or above and avoiding the usage of … [Read more...] about Texans slam Gov. Greg Abbott for power grid failures after earlier boasts

The 18-year-old suspect who allegedly shot and killed 10 people at a supermarket on Saturday in the heart of a Black community in Buffalo appears to have been motivated by a racist, far-right conspiracy theory that has increasingly found footing in mainstream U.S. politics. Before traveling more than three hours from Conklin, New York, to the Tops Friendly Market to attack Black people, the alleged gunman, Payton S. Gendron, is believed to have posted a 180-page document on the internet fixated on the notion of "replacement theory," according to authorities. "Great Replacement theory is the notion that people from minority populations, both here and in Europe, are replacing the existing white, largely Christian [population]," said Larry Rosenthal, chair and lead researcher of the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies. Buffalo supermarket mass shooting: What we know about the alleged gunman The theory was embraced by far-right white nationalist groups … [Read more...] about How ‘replacement theory’ became prominent in mainstream US politics