✪ A coordinated effort between a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations (AMO) aircrew and U.S. Border Patrol agents led to the seizure of “thousands of pounds” of suspected methamphetamine on the California coast...
✪ Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is in Washington for two days of meetings Wednesday with U.S. President Donald Trump days after a new trade deal among the two countries and Canada went into effect.
Project Python: DEA-led operation nets more than 600 arrests targeting Cártel Jalisco Nueva GeneraciónOperatives In The United States
☆ Only The Beginning…
The Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration today announced the results of Project Python, a DEA-led interagency operation encompassing all global investigations and related disruption activities targeting the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). This announcement marks the successful conclusion of six months of investigative and enforcement activity targeting CJNG, culminating in large scale arrests throughout the country within the past week. Project Python has resulted in more than 600 arrests, 350 indictments, as well as significant seizures of money and drugs.
Contract Awarded For New Border Wall System In The Rio Grande Valley
☆ Build That Wall, Build It Tall, Strong & Long
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), has awarded a contract to construct approximately 15 miles of new border wall system within U.S. Border Patrol’s (USBP) Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector located in Starr County, Texas. This project will include a 30 foot tall steel bollard wall, all-weather roads, lighting, enforcement cameras, and other related technology to create a complete enforcement zone. Construction is anticipated to begin in 2020, pending availability of real estate, in locations where no barriers currently exist.
In The Heart of Mexico’s Violence, Disillusion Grows
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☆ Mexico is Now The Failed Narco Terrorist State Next Door
Alejandra Uvilla fled her home city of Apatzingan because of overwhelming violence, moving 65 miles (105 km) north to bustling, mountain-nestled Uruapan in the avocado belt of Michoacan state. Three years later, the bloodshed is even worse here.
☆ 30% MORE INCOME THAN ANNUAL TOURISM OR OIL EXPORTS
Mexican migrants working abroad sent home a record $36 billion in remittances in 2019, an increase of 7% over 2018, when they totaled $33.67 billion. It’s the highest level of remittances on record.
☆ The Trump Administration Continues to Improve Southern Border Security.
Border Patrol officials announced this week that Chief Patrol Agent Brian Hastings will serve as the chief patrol agent of the nation’s busiest sector. Hastings is completing a tour as chief of the Law Enforcement Operations Directorate at Border Patrol headquarters in Washington, D.C.