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Gallego presses for stay of lower court ruling that would unseal his divorce records... Arizona Senate candidate Ruben Gallego on Tuesday sought the intervention of the state’s Supreme Court to prevent the unsealing of his divorce records. Lawyers for Gallego filed a motion to stay an appellate court decision that ordered the unsealing of the documents, arguing that "sensitive details about the Gallegos’ and their minor child’s life stand to be published if Free Beacon succeeds" and that the press and the public lose "nothing" by further delay, including a delay beyond the "upcoming general election." Tuesday’s filing marks a...

Arizona Democrat Representative and Senate candidate Ruben Gallego, whose father is a convicted Mexican drug trafficker, continues to come under fire over his ties to the cartels as newly discovered arrest records and details about his father come to surface. The Gateway Pundit reported that the Democrat Senate hopeful’s scandalous family ties were rehashed by a reporter during a press conference last week. While admitting that his father is a convicted drug trafficker, Gallego did not deny his “connection to drug cartels” when asked by a reporter. ... In 2008, Gallego changed his name from MarineLarena to Gallego to hide...

Multiple Mexican corridos, or narrative folk songs, telling the story of former President Donald Trump’s narrow escape from death in a July 13 assassination attempt have gone viral in the past week on social media. The posts rejoice in Trump as divinely protected and a man who “has never known fear.” Corridos are traditional folk songs, often using heavy accordion, that narrate dramatic events in history, the news, or popular mythology. They were originally a form of spreading news of revolutionary heroes in the 1800s and have since evolved to lionize popular figures in literature, news, and politics. Some corridos...

A Mexican drug cartel known for gruesome public slaughtering drained $40 million from Americans, and stole many elderly victims’ life savings without a drop of blood in 2022, according to FBI stats. It’s part of a rapidly evolving timeshare scam run by the Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG) that is becoming more intricate, and is now estimated to be stealing hundreds of millions from Americans each year. It started as a small operation in the Puerto Vallarta area and expanded to popular tourist spots like Cancun, according to the U.S. Treasury, which issued sanctions against seven fugitives and 19 Mexican...

The altercation was likely due to the illegal immigrants attempting to cross the border without cartel permission. . Members of a Mexican cartel opened fire on illegal immigrants who were utilizing Uber rides to cross the into the US across southern border unlawfully... The incident occurred in Caborca, an area heavily under the control of Mexican cartels. The victims, all from Ecuador, were traveling in three separate Uber vehicles when they came under attack from the cartel. Tragically, one woman lost her life in the shooting, while four others sustained injuries. According to an internal Border patrol memo leaked to...

A doxing scandal started by Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador led to the additional doxing of two presidential candidates. The president also admitted that he didn’t care if he broke the law by starting the controversy. In the most recent turn of events, Lopez Obrador criticized YouTube for taking down the video of his morning news conference where the doxing took place. The politician claimed YouTube was censoring him and being authoritarian. As Breitbart Texas initially reported, the issue began last week when Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador used one of his morning news conferences to criticize and...

Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem ... Mexican drug cartels have set up shop on tribal reservations in her state because they know the federal government has jurisdiction over those lands, and that the Biden administration is "letting it happen." "Even though South Dakota isn't a neighboring state to Texas, we're on the front lines of this thing," Noem said .. "I've got nine Native American tribes, and the cartels are set up on our tribal grounds. They are facilitating this drug trafficking, this human trafficking through my tribal grounds here in South Dakota because I don't have jurisdiction there....

Bill Clinton was spotted palling around with California Gov. Gavin Newsom at a luxurious Mexican resort last week as troves of court documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein pulled the ex-president back into the spotlight. The 42nd president and the Golden State governor, along with his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, were seen riding in a golf cart as they vacationed at the Four Seasons Resort in Tamarindo, Mexico, on Friday, according to photos obtained by The Post. Clinton was seen sporting a multi-colored, short-sleeved shirt and pair of blue shorts while carrying a Panama hat as the sun was shining, photos...

Mexican authorities stood down any efforts to contain a new migrant caravan that embarked this week from the southern part of Mexico. Authorities are currently escorting the groups and providing crowd control. Calling themselves the Poverty Exodus (Exodo de la Pobreza), the caravan, which is made up of more than 6,000 migrants, left the city of Tapachula, Chiapas, on Christmas Eve. The caravan is making its way north. In various parts of the journey, the migrants waved a banner with the caravan’s name and carried a white cross. Members of the group made public claims that their goal was to...

President Biden spoke Thursday with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, with the two men discussing efforts to reopen ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border. The conversation focused on migration issues as lawmakers in the United States are working to clinch a deal on border policy. Biden and López Obrador “agreed that additional enforcement actions are urgently needed so that key ports of entry can be reopened across our shared border,” according to a White House readout of the call.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pledged to fight a new Texas law allowing state authorities to prosecute migrants entering the U.S. from Mexico. Border issues previously were left to federal authorities, but the inclusion of state and local police contributes to rising tensions between Mexico and the U.S. as Congress struggles to negotiate border security policy. “The foreign ministry is already working on the process to challenge this law,” López Obrador said Tuesday, Reuters reported. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) “wants to win popularity with these measures, but he’s not going to win anything, but he’ll lose favor, because...

Mexican far-left President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) claimed on Tuesday that the election of libertarian economist Javier Milei as president of Argentina was an “own goal” for the South American nation. “To put it in a word, with all due respect, it was an own-goal. And I do not agree, although I respect the decision of the people, with right-wing governments,” López Obrador said on Tuesday during a press conference. “I do not agree with classist, racist governments. I do not agree with the hypocrisy that characterizes the right wing in the world.” López Obrador did not clarify if...

A white woman captured on video making racist statements — which sparked a large protest in Santa Barbara over the weekend — has apologized for her “inappropriate remarks,” saying they were the result of a lapse in judgement. exp-player-logo Watch More Two videos posted to Instagram show the Saturday confrontation between the woman, identified as Jeanne Umana, and a Latino construction worker, identified as Luis Cervantes. In one video, Umana is shown inside a house at an active construction site in Santa Barbara. She is approached by Cervantes and told that the house is on private property and that she...

Mexico’s largest freight company has temporarily halted 60 trains in the north — because of an “unprecedented” number of migrants hitching rides to the US border. Ferromex announced the mass service suspension Tuesday, days after a video went viral showing hundreds of cheering migrants crammed into one of its trains. The company said “the accumulation of migrants in recent days has increased significantly,” causing about a “half-dozen regrettable cases of injury or death” among those trying to illegally cross into the US. “Due to this, Ferromex will temporarily suspend its operations on the affected routes to protect the physical integrity...

A Mexican restaurant in New Jersey is serving up an ultra strict dress code — despite the fact that it’s on a truck route next door to a QuickChek convenience store. Cantina 46 — off of Route 46 highway in Ridgefield –has a laundry list of fashion faux pas including: no plain white t-shirts, men’s tank tops/sleeveless shirts, beach attire, sweatsuit/athletic attire, excessively baggy clothing, flip-flops or slippers, work boots or inappropriate headwear. “We don’t want to be like a regular restaurant, we want to be high end,” partner and manager Joaquin Molina told The Post. The clothing regulations —...

Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fuentes, a Mexican citizen residing in Singapore, was arrested based on a Complaint charging him with acting within the United States on behalf of a foreign government (Russia), without notifying the Attorney General, and conspiracy to do the same.John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Ariana Fajardo Orshan, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; George Piro, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office; and Diane J. Sabatino, Director of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Miami Field Office, made the announcement. According to court...

Washington State's first equity director has been fired after an investigation found she made racist comments towards Hispanic colleagues and even fat-shamed one employee. Karen Johnson, the first director of the state's Office of Equity, was terminated from her position on May 17 after an independent investigation revealed several of her employees had complained about her 'biased and insensitive conduct.' One Mexican employee told investigators how Johnson once said she had a 'distrust of Mexican people,' while another said the director attacked her for her weight. Johnson has denied these allegations, and is said to be considering bringing a wrongful...

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is asking Hispanics in Florida not to vote for Ron DeSantis in his bid for the 2024 presidential nomination. The Mexican politician claims that DeSantis, much like other Republicans, is using an anti-immigrant message for political purposes. Despite his constant criticism of the U.S. government for interfering in other countries’ politics, Lopez Obrador (AMLO) openly called for Hispanics in Florida to not give a single vote to DeSantis.

Pete Santilli joins The Alex Jones Show to break down intel by federal sources claiming two leading cartels have joined forces to wage a terror campaign on U.S. soil to serve as the pretext for the Biden regime to stay the lifting of Title 42 and come after the American people’s guns.(Video at link) Also available here: https://banned.video/watch?id=64585541c97967094378983b

Unsuccessful Senate, presidential, and gubernatorial hopeful Beto O’Rourke responded to news a Mexican male shot and killed five people in Cleveland, Texas, by pushing for more gun control. Breitbart News reported the 38-year-old suspect, Francisco Oropeza, allegedly shot and killed five people after being asked to quit shooting his gun in the front yard. ABC News quoted San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers saying, “My understanding is that the victims, they came over to the fence and said ‘Hey could [you not do your] shooting out in the yard? We have a young baby that’s trying to go to sleep,’...