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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For the second time, the Border Security Expo returned to the Phoenix Convention Center this week with vendors offering surveillance systems, drones and a look at what border enforcement could become. -
In January of 2018, University of Arizona professor Scott Warren was volunteering in the Southern Arizona desert with humanitarian aid group No More Deaths. -
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the approximately 1,000-year-old geoglyph in Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge was disturbed by border wall contractors nearly two weeks ago. -
The Trump administration is waiving environmental laws and spending billions on building a wall on the Southern border. But in Texas, much of the border is marked by the Rio Grande River and there, they are putting in buoys. -
Jose Angel Mireles is trying to build a new life in Nogales, Sonora, after 18 years in Phoenix. He’s one of many deported under the Trump administration who now find themselves far from the only homes they’ve ever known.
