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MIDLAND, Texas — A Midland drug trafficker, Jose Ramon Castillo-Lopez, 30 of Namiquipa, Chihuahua, Mexico with ties to a ...

A Mexican nationally living in Texas illegally was sentenced to life in federal prison on Thursday for his criminal role as ...

"We need to go on the offense. We don't need to be cowering in our holes," Congressman Keith Self told Newsweek.

Border Patrol agents pursued the modified F-150 truck and traced it to a house where they found approximately 24 undocumented migrants.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer charged with multiple counts of violating immigration and drug laws has pleaded ...

Among the cartels to receive the terrorist label will be the Sinaloa and the Jalisco New Generation cartels, according to the ...

A U.S. CBP officer allegedly involved in migrant smuggling on the Texas border was a member of a Mexican drug cartel, a federal agent testified.

The move against a half-dozen organizations followed an executive order from President Trump that said the United States ...

A total of eight criminal groups rooted in Latin America are expected to be designated as foreign terrorist organizations by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as early as this week ...

The U.S. military is increasing its airborne surveillance of Mexican drug cartels to collect intelligence to determine how to ...