Republican Representative and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has suggested "we should have a military presence" in Mexico following a kidnapping that resulted in the deaths of two Americans. The kidnapping, believed to be committed by cartel members, has put pressure on the Biden administration to take greater action...
Harris Turns Focus to Mexico on Trip to Address Migration
MEXICO CITY — Vice President Kamala Harris is closing out her first foreign trip Tuesday with a visit to Mexico and a meeting with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a key but complicated ally in the Biden administration’s efforts to curb the spike in migration at the U.S. border. While...
AP Exclusive: DOJ Rescinds ‘Zero Tolerance’ Immigration Rule
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Tuesday rescinded a Trump-era memo that established a “zero tolerance” enforcement policy for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, which resulted in thousands of family separations. Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson issued the new memo to federal prosecutors across the nation, saying the department...
Mexico President Tests Positive for COVID as Country Hits New Infection High
MEXICO CITY — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador worked from isolation Monday, a day after announcing that he had tested positive for COVID-19, and was absent from his daily news conference for the first time in his two years in office. López Obrador's absence came as his country registered...
Mexico Says No More US Trials for Corrupt Officials
MEXICO CITY — Mexico said Thursday it will no longer allow officials accused of corruption to be tried in the United States, a move that could end a decades-old tradition in which most of Mexico’s high-profile drug-trafficking and corruption cases have been tried north of the border. However, the extent...
Illegal Border Crossings Rise for Sixth Straight Month
SAN DIEGO — U.S. border authorities stopped people entering the country illegally from Mexico more than 69,000 times in October, the sixth straight monthly increase and the highest level since July 2019. Mark Morgan, acting Customs and Border Protection commissioner, said deteriorating economic conditions were driving more people to come...
Ex-Embassy Worker Suspected of Sexually Assaulting 24 Women
SAN DIEGO — A former U.S. embassy worker in Mexico is believed to have drugged and sexually assaulted as many as two dozen women, filming many of them while they were unconscious, according to federal prosecutors. Brian Jeffrey Raymond was arrested earlier this month in San Diego, where he had...
Parents of 545 Children Separated at US Border Can’t Be Found
SAN DIEGO — Court-appointed lawyers said Tuesday that they have been unable to find parents of 545 children who were separated at the U.S. border with Mexico early in the Trump administration. The children were separated between July 1, 2017, and June 26, 2018, when a federal judge in San...
Authorities: Top Mexico Official Helped Smuggle Drugs to US
LOS ANGELES — Mexico’s former defense secretary helped a cartel smuggle thousands of kilograms of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States in exchange for bribes, according to court documents unsealed Friday. Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, 72, acted on behalf of the H-2 cartel while defense secretary from...
Petalo, Not Charmin: Virus Brings Mexican Toilet Paper To US
NEW YORK — Toilet paper is back on store shelves. But you may not recognize some of the brands. Demand for toilet paper has been so high during the pandemic that in order to keep their shelves stocked, retailers are buying up foreign toilet paper brands, mostly from Mexico. Major...