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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador shocked reporters during his press briefing Thursday when he claimed criminal gangs and cartels were 'respectful people' who respected the country's residents and mainly kill each other. The remarks are clearly at odds with the reality of millions of Mexicans who live in areas dominated by drug cartels, who have been involved in some of the 184,000 homicides that have been registered since the leftist leader took office in December 2018.   The cartels routinely demand protection payments from local residents and kill or kidnap them if they refuse to pay.

Fermin Garcia-Gutierrez, a migrant, has been arrested in Ohio for shooting and killing another man. He had been arrested 11 times before and deported at least eight times, according to police. Garcia-Gutierrez has arrests dating back to 2001, according to Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones, who has used at least seven different names and three different birthdates. He has had seven names before, and now he's been charged with murder, aggravated murder, and who knows who else he's killed along the way or killed in Mexico,' Jones said.

Just hours after she had requested security cover at a rally in Guanajuato's north-central Mexican state. Gisela Gaytán was walking on a street on Monday afternoon, the second day of her campaign for mayor of Celaya, when gunman assaulted her on two motorcycles and opened fire before fleeing. At least two wounded men were shot on the street pavement and Gaytán lay face down in a pool of blood, according to footage taken by a bystander. On the floor of a store, another woman who seemed to have been shot was discovered.

Two more bodies were found in Baltimore's search for the construction workers who were killed after a container ship collided with the iconic Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early hours of Tuesday, demolishing it. Divers retrieved Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, 36, and Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, 26, inside a red pickup truck that was plunged 25 feet into the frigid Patapsco River after the crash, according to an official on Wednesday. Miguel Luna, 49, and Maynor Suazo, 38, were among the other victims identified a day earlier. Jesus Campos, their coworker who was not working on the fateful night, told the world that the group was on their lunch break at the time of the accident and that two people were in a work truck.

After being threatened by criminal groups in Mexico, at least 46 candidates have renounced their political ambitions. On Tuesday, twelve of the public office candidates dropped out of the mayoral and city council elections in Morelos, California. According to government election board and political parties' reports, another 34 candidates walked away from seeking office in Michoacán's western state.

After Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ordered billions of dollars and more to support the United States in the midst of the country's continuing migrant crisis, Republican lawmakers are outraged.

After Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ordered billions of dollars and more to help the US resolve the country's migrant crisis, Republican lawmakers are irate. In a 60 Minutes interview over the weekend, Mexican President Juan Manuel said he would work with its northern neighbor to stop immigration if Mexico's United States accepts his demands. He needed the United States to pledge $20 billion to countries in South America and the Caribbean, sanctions on Venezuela, the embargo on Cuba, and the recognition of law-abiding Mexicans living in the United States illegally. If the United States does not respond to his requests, Obrador said that "the migration of migrants will continue." Republicans slammed Obrador's calls as a bribe, and Biden for allowing him to call the shots on US foreign policy in reaction. 'The President of Mexico has announced that until we pay the bribe, they will keep invading our country,' Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga, wrote on X on Monday.' This is a war.' We're basically saying, 'We meet his demands or the invasion persists.'

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico blasted Texas for a law that would allow police officers the right to arrest people who illegally cross the state-Mexico border and promised that Mexico would not accept anyone deported from the state. 'I will let it be known right away,' López Obrador said Wednesday during his daily press briefing at the National Palace in Mexico City. Senate Bill 4, which was repealed on Tuesday by a federal appeals court only hours after the Supreme Court ordered that it go into operation.

In Mexico, two mayoral candidates were shot and killed in fewer than 24 hours, the eighth political assassination attempt in less than 24 hours leading up to the June general elections. Diego Pérez, a politician running in Chiapas' southern state, was discovered dead on Thursday. His body had signs of torture and was left lying next to his wife and son, who were both injured.

Two Mexican detectives who went missing while investigating the recent police shooting death of a student teacher have been found safe. Suay Domnneez, 30, and Enrique Linares, 40, were discovered on Tuesday. However, the Mexican government remained tightly wound on how the federal agents, who are entrusted to the Attorney General's Office's Criminal Investigation branch, were actually located and did not reveal the city where they were found.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Tuesday that two detectives who had been probing the 43 student teachers who were kidnapped and killed in Mexico in 2014 are now missing. Suay Domnguez, 30, and Enrique Linares, 40, were last seen in Cuernavaca, the capital of Morelos' central state.

Protesters in Mexico's wooden doors were smashed by a pickup truck at this moment. On Wednesday, the demonstrators were protesting the abduction and murder of 43 students, who were missing in Mexico City, where President Andrés Manuel López Obrador lives and holds his daily press briefing. Multiple windows were shattered before security agents threatened them to leave palace, a historic building dating back to the 1700s that was built on the site of the Aztec emperor's palace.

Soldiers were killed in a drug cartel campground in Michoacán, Spain, on a troubling bodycam video. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced their deaths on Friday during his daily press briefing in Mexico City. On Thursday, the army soldiers were on patrol in Aguililla, Mexico, and searching a field when an improvised explosive device that had been hidden within the trees went off, according to the leftist leader.

On a highway that links two Mexican resort towns, five Argentine tourists were killed after their SUV turned into a parked van and killed its pilot. Hernán Sibella, Maximiliano Liviano, Silvia D'az, Gerónimo Amengual, and Nahuel López were among the Argentine victims, who were pronounced dead on the scene. The SUV spun into the opposite lane and slammed into the van, which was stationed on the highway shoulder near the Palladium Hotel. Freddy Quijano, the van's driver, was airlifted to a hospital, where he died as a result of his injury.

As part of a frantic effort to reach the Mexico's northern border region with the United States, at least 1,500 migrants have arrived in the first caravan of 2024. The group, mainly Central and South American migrants, had grown frustrated with the country's lagging Mexican immigration system in Tapachula, a city in the southern state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala. The migrants took off by foot on Thursday and then landed in Huixtla on Friday.

Speaker Mike Johnson called the border a "unmitigated disaster" and blamed President Biden and his administration for inaction as the United States approaches a 'breaking point.' Over 302,000 people crossed the border illegally in December, the highest number for a single month ever recorded in history. 'The situation here and around the world is absolutely intolerable.' During a press conference with the 64 Republicans, the speaker said, 'We would describe it as both heartbreaking and infuriating.'

Border Patrol, Texas Department of Public Safety, and other interested parties will participate in the gathering, which is based in Rep. Tony Gonzales, who represents the area. It's the first large-scale congressional delegation led by the new speaker to the border. The trip comes the week before Congress is set to return and face not only a slew of spending deadlines, but also a commitment to tighten border control and provide foreign assistance to Ukraine and Israel.

On Wednesday, a senior delegation of the United States traveled to Mexico to confront record numbers of people illegally crossing the border, and a caravan of about 6,000 migrants made its way across the country. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' visit to Mexico is widely seen as a way for the Biden administration to tighten border security ahead of next year's presidential race. However, the Mexican president answered in first, arguing that the US Congress should be more able to Latin America than 'building walls.'

A day for weeks, Eagle Pass in Texas has been flooded with at least 10,000 asylum seekers, and the surge hasn't stopped for the holiday. Families, including young children, swam across the Rio Grande de Mexico and scaled barbed wire fences all night long, and even more as the sun came up. The overworked officers were re-arrivaled to asylum agents who were able to obtain asylum, and hundreds of them were herded into pens by the hundreds.

Around 10,000 people led by Mexican activist Luis Rey Garcia Villagran departed Tapachula, southern Mexico, for the long march north as more of those still on the US border finished their journey this evening. After US officials reported more than 242,000 migrants crossing in November alone, President Joe Biden hauled Secretary of State Anthony Blinken away from the Middle East crisis for a summit with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Wednesday. As darkness fell on Christmas Eve, Monday, a one-day record high of 12,600 and more people were risking their lives in the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas. 'We are the poorest of the poorest of those at risk, those of us who don't have money to pay for visas or people smugglers,' Villagran said as the new caravan started.

The town of Lukeville, Arizona, which is now an epicenter of the tragedy, as the southern border crisis continues to sees upwards of 10,000 migrants apprehended every day. The nearly 20,000 arrests at the Tuscon border town by John R Modlin, Chief Patrol Agent, said on Friday that there were 13 human smuggling incidents, 15 rescues, six drugs trials, four arrested sex offenders, and 155 federal criminal cases. Last month, 192,000 migrants were apprehended total, up from the 188,000 that were apprehended in October, according to US Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens. According to US Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens, 192,000 migrants were apprehended in total last month, up from the 188,000 that were arrested in October.

Thalia Cornejo (left), a teenager who was crowned beauty queen at a local pageant in 2017, was one of the victims of a mass shooting in Mexico. At a holiday party in Guanajuato's central Mexican state, a dozen people were killed and 11 were wounded by gunmen. According to local media outlets, the victims, aged 16 to 30, were attending a posada, a Mexican traditional party that celebrates the Christmas season, at an old hacienda in Salvatierra's municipality when the assassination fired them down early Sunday.

According to a recent Southwestern border survey, Mexican migrants have left their homes for a new life in the United States due to cartel violence rather than economic difficulties. According to the report, 88 percent of the people (6,710 people) who attended the center said they wanted to escape from violence resulting from turf wars between the Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel. The results, which were gathered by the Kino Border Initiative, a large migrant shelter and resource center in Nogolas, Sonora, showed a dramatic decline from 2017, when 87 percent of the 7,148 respondents said they were migrant migrants arriving in America due to economic hardships.

Local media outlets announced that the mother of notorious former drug lord Joaqun'El Chapo'Guzmán died on Sunday at the age of 94 in Mexico. Mara Loera had fallen sick and spent the previous three weeks in Culiacán, the capital city of Sinaloa's northwest province. According to El Chapo's prosecutor José González, employees at the hospital called 911 around 2:30 p.m. local time to announce her death. Although the cause of her death has yet to be determined, the outlet reported that Loera may have died from natural causes because she was getting medicine from a nebulizer.