Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is set to visit Mexico this week on a multi-country trip that started Wednesday.
Noem will also make stops in El Salvador and Colombia. She is set to meet with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, as well as Mexico’s foreign minister.
Sheinbaum said Noem will get a briefing from Mexico’s security cabinet. Mexico looks to show the United States it has a handle on security in the face of President Donald Trump’s tariff threat. To underscore this, Sheinbaum’s administration says homicides are down since she took office.
In El Salvador, Noem is visiting a controversial mega-prison known for harsh conditions. It’s where hundreds of Venezuelan migrants recently expelled from the United States are jailed and in legal limbo.
Trump expelled some of those migrants under the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act. A federal judge blocked its use, but not before the migrants were already en route to the prison.
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Andrés Manuel López Beltrán says the revocation of his U.S. visa was politically motivated. -
The project to clean up sediment and soil in the Rio Sonora comes more than a decade after what Mexico considers the worst environmental mining disaster in its history. Some say the government and Grupo México could have done more and demand transparency. -
As officials turn to native trees to deal with urban heat, Sonora is hoping to create a "green lung" in the state capital. -
Mexican authorities have arrested a former Mexican governor accused of concealing evidence related to the case of 43 students who went missing in 2014. -
As summer temperatures have soared, so too have cases of dehydration and heatstroke in the Mexican state south of Arizona.
