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A top Republican has sparked a diplomatic row with Mexico after he said their citizens would be 'eating cat food' without the United States. GOP Senator John Kennedy was labelled as a 'racist' by the Mexican government after his explosive remarks on how to crack down on drug trafficking. The Louisiana lawmaker said Wednesday during a hearing on Capitol Hill that the Biden administration could use troops to swoop in and break up the cartels because Mexico was so dependent on U.S. trade. 'Without the people of America, Mexico, figuratively speaking, would be eating cat food out of a can...

Heavy gunfire earlier today at the international bridge.

Down in Mexico, President Andres Lopez-Obrador has confirmed what most of us knew. Here is the story: The Mexican president says his country has proof that illegal shipments of the powerful opioid drug fentanyl are arriving from China.A container with hidden packages of the drug was intercepted in the Pacific port of Lázaro Cárdenas, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said."We already have proof," he said, adding that he would ask the Chinese government to help stop the shipments.US authorities say fentanyl is now the main driver of US drug overdose deaths.In March President López Obrador said he had written to...

President Joe Biden’s border chief says he can’t explain why hundreds of thousands of migrants are rushing over the border he is tasked to guard. “Can you explain why you’ve seen this big surge [of migrants] in the last couple of weeks?” border chief Alejandro Mayorkas was asked on Friday, just six days before he lifts the Title 42 border barrier. “It’s very difficult to identify the cause,” the pro-migration border chief responded to the reporter.

Catch a panel discussion on keeping America's border secure, fending off the threat of China, and more, featuring Rep. Chip Roy, Liz Wheeler, Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, Peter Schweizer, and Michael Pillsbury.

Our nation is suffering death by a hundred thousand cuts in the form of drug poisoning deaths every year, which are continuing to rise. On average, that’s three hundred Americans dying every single day. In addition to the exploding body count, four million of our fellow citizens enter substance abuse treatment programs every year, two million visit hospital emergency rooms suffering from drug overdose symptoms and, lastly, illegal drugs now cost our society over three trillion dollars per year in lost productivity, as well as social, criminal, and health related costs of every kind.If one wished to purposefully introduce a...

San Francisco's drug overdose crisis is 'out of control,'.. Fentanyl and other drugs kill one person every 10 hours . ... San Francisco saw a staggering 41 percent surge in the number of drug-related deaths in the first quarter of 2023 compared to the same time last year. ... That amounts to one overdose death every 10 hours in a city that has seen its reputation as a coastal gem ravaged by worsening crime, drugs, and, homelessness rates, even as it remains home to tech billionaires. The overdose victims were disproportionately black and Latino men ... Fentanyl, a potent synthetic...

President Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief is widening a semi-legal door in the border to admit 1,000 people per day — or 350,000 people per year — from Mexico, despite Congress’s cap on migration numbers. The announcement by border chief Alejandro Mayorkas comes shortly before he lifts the Title 42 border barrier, and it is intended to help avoid another PR disaster like the Del Rio arrival of perhaps 30,000 Haitian migrants in September 2021.

China is selling “industrial pill press equipment” used to turn powdered fentanyl into pills to Mexican cartels, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official’s testimony Wednesday. Over 70,000 people died of drug overdoses involving fentanyl in the United States in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Matthew Millhollin, assistant director with DHS’ Homeland Security Investigations, (HSI) briefed Senate members on what steps DHS is taking to combat the illicit fentanyl trade. Millhollin said the Mexican cartels, using chemicals obtained from China, produce fentanyl-laced pills on an industrial scale to be smuggled to the...

Rudy Lazo’s son and daughter were inconsolable after learning the news of their father’s death. They say their father would often make trips from his home in San Bernardino to deliver toys and basic necessities to families in Tijuana.A 79-year-old San Bernardino man was killed while delivering donations to families in need in Tijuana, his family said Friday. Rudy Lazo’s son and daughter were inconsolable after learning the news of their father’s death. They say their father would often make trips from his home in San Bernardino to deliver toys and basic necessities to families in Tijuana. "He was always...

Authorities reported that 11 women and seven men were killed.At least 18 people were killed and 33 injured when a bus fell off a cliff in western Mexico, local authorities said Sunday. The prosecutor's office in Nayarit, the state where the accident occurred, said the vehicle fell some 15 meters down a ravine on Saturday night, on a highway that connects state capital Tepic and the tourist destination of Puerto Vallarta. Authorities reported that 11 women and seven men were killed. At least 11 minors have been transferred to hospitals for medical attention. Photographs released by Nayarit's Security and Civil...

A three times deported Mexican national who allegedly shot and killed five of his neighbors, including a child, is being described by the media as a “Texas man”.Twitter/Bill MeluginThe illegal immigrant is accused of gunning down five Honduran nationals on Friday night in Cleveland, Texas and is still on the run.Francisco Oropesa’s neighbors complained that him shooting his gun in the garden was keeping their baby awake. Oropesa responded by invading their home and killing them, including an 8-year-old child.It is now being reported that Oropesa has been deported on three occasions, with his most recent removal being in 2016.“San...

The FBI in Houston has said investigators have “zero leads” in their search for a Texas man who allegedly shot and killed five people, including an 8-year-old. “I can tell you right now, we have zero leads,” James Smith, the FBI special agent in charge, told reporters. Francisco Oropesa, 38, fled after the shooting on Friday night and is considered armed and dangerous. The FBI and local authorities have jointly offered up $80,000 in reward money for information that could lead them closer to the suspect amid a multi-agency search. The FBI has circulated photos of the suspect but warned...

Our public life today is a seething cauldron of animosities. We see it everywhere in American politics. One army general gave voice to the fear in a memorable simile, worrying that the country might collapse like “Mexico and the Central American countries” unless something was done to tamp down partisan passions and encourage unity. His comment went viral, and soon people across the country were talking about, and deploring, the possible “Mexicanization of American politics.” The governing question, as one distinguished historian put it, is whether “American politics [has] become permanently ‘Mexicanized’?” Another commentator, considering “the Mexicanization of institutions,” defined...

Five people are dead after being shot in a Texas home by a suspect armed with an AR-15 style rifle in a horrific series of "execution style" shootings, police said. A manhunt is currently underway for the suspect, identified by police as 39-year-old Francisco Oropeza, according to ABC station KTRK in Houston. A judge has issued an arrest warrant for Oropeza and assigned a $5 million bond. Authorities believe Oropeza left by walking or on a bicycle and is currently within a two mile radius of the scene, KTRK reported. Police said the incident occurred at 11:31 p.m. local time...

The bodies of eight people were found dumped in the Mexican resort of Cancun, one of the country’s most popular tourism destinations, authorities said Tuesday. The bodies were discovered over the weekend about 10 miles from Cancun’s beach and hotel zone after police launched a coordinated effort to search for missing people in wooded lots and even sinkhole ponds, also known as cenotes, Mexican authorities said. Oscar Montes de Oca, the head prosecutor of the Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo, said five of the bodies were found at an abandoned construction site. Three were subsequently identified as previously reported...

he group is in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas in hopes of reaching Mexico City, where they plan to pressure government officials to provide them with exit visas or legal documents that would allow them to continue their journey to the United States border. The asylum-seeking caravan, which is largely composed by individuals from Central and South America as well as China and other Asian countries, had threatened to block roads or cause self-injuries Monday unless the Mexican government agreed to meetings or supply buses that would transport them to the capital. 'We are asking the government to give...

A Guide to Mexican Anti-Catholicism in the 1900sRead Part One: A Guide to Mexican Anti-Catholicism in the 1800sG.K. Chesterton famously said “Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died.” This reflects the 20th century history of Mexico. Chesterton continues that quote with “Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.”The Mexican Revolution (1910-1920)It has also been said that a revolution always eats its own. The Mexican Revolution was no exception. Many of its leaders, from Francisco Madero (1913, age...

A Guide to Mexican Anti-Catholicism in the 1800s - Part 1“In the world you shall have distress: but have confidence, I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).A History of Bloodshed and RevolutionOften untaught to children today, Catholics were extremely persecuted in Mexico during the early 1900s because of the rise of the atheistic government in Mexico, which was seeking to secularize the country and limit the power of the Catholic Church.History books cite September 16, 1810 as the beginning of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.[1] Credited for initiating this revolution is Don Miguel Hidalgo, a Catholic priest. Sadly,...

Vast numbers of Chinese citizens are illegally crossing our border with Mexico. The U.S. Border Patrol is able to apprehend some of them, but thanks to the Biden administration once they are processed most of them are given “notices to appear” and are then freely released into our communities.