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In early-morning raids Wednesday, agents fanned out across the United States, culminating a six-month investigation with the primary goal of dismantling the upper echelon of the cartel and hoping to get closer to capturing its leader, one of the most wanted men in America. -
In Tijuana on Monday, some businesses were closed and stores went without staff as women engaged in a one-day strike they’re calling “un día sin mujeres.” -
Untold thousands of women across Mexico stayed home from work and school Monday as part of a strike billed as “A Day Without Women,” hours after an unprecedented number of them filled the streets to protest rampant and rising gender violence on International Women's Day. -
A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily halted a Trump administration policy to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration courts. -
The protest is part of a movement across Mexico against what protesters are calling an epidemic of femicide. Thousands of women and girls have either been murdered and gone missing in recent years. -
In recent months, pregnant asylum-seekers sent back to Tijuana under the "Remain-In-Mexico" program have been barred from entering the United States for their court dates. -
The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will waive federal contracting laws to speed construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. -
It’s been just over a year since the United States began returning asylum-seekers to Mexico under the “Remain-in-Mexico” program. The situation remains desperate for thousands of migrants in Mexican border cities. -
The murder rate is rising in Sonora, the Mexican state east of Baja, and with it the number of women and girls being killed in the state. Now, Sonoran women are joining a movement that's spread across Mexico and Latin America. -
The crew of a boat trying to protect a critically endangered porpoise in the Sea of Cortez was fired on by fishermen this weekend.
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