Mexico says it is continuing to make arrests as part of its Operation Northern Border effort to crack down on drug smuggling networks.
Mexico’s security secretary, Omar García Harfuch, said Tuesday more than 1,000 people have been arrested as part of the operation since June 10. More than 4,000 suspects have been detained under the program since its start in February.
In the past two weeks, Harfuch said Mexico has also confiscated nearly 700 firearms as part of Operation Northern Border, which includes Mexico’s National Guard, Marines and attorney general.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration started the program shortly after the Trump administration threatened tariffs on Mexico if it doesn’t do more to stop the flow of fentanyl across the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Republican lawmakers are backing plans to spend $40 million from state coffers to reimburse local governments for border security and immigration enforcement as Arizona continues to wait for hundreds of millions in federal reimbursements that both Republicans and Democrats are relying on to balance the state budget. -
Heith Janke, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Phoenix office, said Patrick Gary Shlegel fled from Border Patrol agents after they tried to stop his truck for suspected human smuggling closer to the U.S-Mexico border. -
A man who authorities say was involved in a smuggling operation was shot Tuesday in an exchange of gunfire with the U.S. Border Patrol and after firing at a federal helicopter near the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said. -
It’s been a year this week since Trump reentered office and issued a slew of Day 1 executive orders on immigration, bringing into question everything from asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, to whether people born in the U.S. are guaranteed citizenship. -
In a post, the State Department called Mexico’s progress on border security “unacceptable.” Meanwhile, Mexico’s president is calling on the United States to do more to stop the flow of firearms into her country.
