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#mexico-border-crossings

Mexico City proper's population was more than 9 million people in 2020, and including the surrounding metro area, is estimated at over 23 million in 2026.

Roberto Velasco embodies two qualities valued by President Claudia Sheinbaum: technical expertise and generational renewal. At 38, he is the youngest to lead the department in nearly a century.

Emergency services, including a helicopter, were seen searching the area, and French maritime authorities recovered people from the water, with one person treated for hypothermia.

They want to self-deport: they packed their bags, bought their tickets, and showed up at the airport to leave. And yet, they couldn't board the plane.

In Mexico, and in Latin America in general, crime is no longer just drug trafficking. The old paradigm where cocaine, marijuana, and heroin fueled illicit industries, especially in rural areas, has given way to a different, much more complex reality. Any economy is fair game, from avocados and limes in Michoacan to street market stalls and transportation routes in Guerrero, to the theft of gasoline from the pipelines of the national oil company, Pemex.

The ability of criminal groups to exercise this type of power and exercise this type of violence is closely linked to firearms trafficking, said Cecilia Farfan-Mendez, an expert on Mexican organised crime. If we want to see less violence in Mexico, this is a very important conversation.

With time, as his research led to police intervention, he caught the attention of the city's gangs. In November 2024, during a period of escalating violence in the Haitian capital, gang members entered the compound where Gensley lived. They burned the radio station, my home and many other things in the area. They even killed his dog.

Due to ongoing security operations and related road blockages and criminal activity, U.S. citizens in the named locations should shelter in place until further notice, an alert on the U.S. Embassy website read. The warning applies to Jalisco State, including Puerto Vallarta, Chapala, and Guadalajara, as well as Tamaulipas State, including Reynosa and other municipalities. Areas of Michoacan, Guerrero and Nuevo Leon were also listed.

The Mexican army killed the country's most powerful cartel leader and one of the United States' most wanted fugitives on Sunday, notching a major victory while cartel members responded with a wave violence across the country. The killing of Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes during an attempt to capture him in Jalisco state was the highest-profile blow against cartels since the recapture of former Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquin El Chapo Guzman a decade ago.

Mexico has sent another 37 alleged members of Mexican criminal organisations to the United States, the country's security minister said, amid US President Donald Trump's threat of ground attacks against drug cartels in the region. The handover of alleged drug cartel members on Tuesday is the third major transfer to the US in the past year and brings the total number of suspects transferred to 92.

Enrique Castillejos and his wife stopped at a Winchell's Donut House. It was part of their after-church routine on Friday nights. That evening's sermon had been about finding peace in God in turbulent times, and they felt it spoke directly to them. Enrique, 63, and his wife, Maria Elena Hernandez, 55, were undocumented immigrants. Like millions of others in Southern California, they had been looking over their shoulders as federal agents conducted immigration sweeps.

As a child, Michelle Serrano would take trips to Boca Chica with her grandmother. From her home in Brownsville, the drive ran east through Texas wetlands and countryside before landing on miles of beach, stretching far down the Gulf Coast just above the U.S.-Mexico border. They'd spend the day there, swimming, laying out - which didn't cost anything, unlike at South Padre Island to the north. For them, it was the peoples' beach.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security surged 3,000 federal immigration agents to Minnesota - a state more than a thousand miles from the southern border that's not known for having a sizable population of immigrants in the U.S. illegally - calling it the largest such operation ever. Many people have wondered: Why Minnesota? Vice President JD Vance, who visited Minneapolis on Jan. 22 to defend federal immigration enforcement, gave a misleading answer.