Tag: Mexico

Feds silent as migrant flights keep on coming

Joel Gehrke · April 26, 2016 4:37 pm

Agents found eight bricks of cocaine weighing about 10 pounds, which had an estimated value of $175,000. (Photo courtesy of Customs and Border Protection)

Border agents find cocaine smuggled inside candy

Pete Kasperowicz · April 22, 2016 7:11 pm

The tunnel, which runs from a flophouse in Tijuana to a home in a San Diego suburb, is about 2,600 feet — or roughly nine football fields long. According to Laura Duffy, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California, the three-foot wide tunnel was equipped with lights, ventilation, a rail system and a motorized freight elevator that could carry up to 10 people. (United States Department of Justice via AP)

California cross-border drug smuggling tunnel found is longest ever

Kelly Cohen · April 21, 2016 2:38 pm

Agents searched the 142-foot-long manmade tunnel and said it originated 60 feet south of the border. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP)

Southern Calif. Border Patrol find third tunnel in one year

Anna Giaritelli · April 19, 2016 3:54 am

"Maybe they will name it the Trump wall. I don't know, I don't know," the GOP front-runner said during a rally Saturday in Syracuse, N.Y. (AP Photo)

Trump has an idea for whose name should go on his wall

Robert King · April 16, 2016 5:37 pm

Watch: Crowd chants ‘Build the wall!’ at Trump town hall

Kelly Cohen · April 14, 2016 11:26 am

"Our Border Patrol agents did a great service to our communities by preventing this previously convicted felon from entering the United States," Chief Patrol Agent Richard Barlow said. (AP File Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Convicted rapist caught at border attempting to re-enter U.S.

Anna Giaritelli · April 13, 2016 4:40 am

McCain listed four questions, including asking whether DHS coordination with the military would "increase or decrease DHS's situational awareness of drug trafficking along the U.S.-Mexico border." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

McCain demands military help on U.S. border

Susan Ferrechio · April 12, 2016 11:15 pm

Ex-Mex president: The border is ‘very safe,’ no terrorists have ever come through

Becket Adams · April 12, 2016 11:00 pm

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, right, speaks to the scholarship recipients of the Telmex Foundation during the annual Mexico XXI Century event in Mexico City, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. At left is Javier Olivan, Facebook's VP of Growth and Analytics. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Zuckpocricy: Facebook boss bought neighbors’ homes to keep them away

Paul Bedard · April 12, 2016 7:58 pm

Rafael Barcena-Padilla, 50, had been apprehended by Border Patrol agents March 1 when he was caught illegally entering the U.S. near Santa Teresa, New Mexico. (AP File Photo/Russell Contreras)

Four-time deported Mexican dies in U.S. immigration custody

Anna Giaritelli · April 9, 2016 2:09 am

The House Oversight Committee said it will appeal the Obama administration's failure to cooperate. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Justice Dept. fails to turn over all Fast and Furious docs

Anna Giaritelli · April 8, 2016 9:38 pm