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    ‘I Am Under Threat’: Why Mexico Politician Calls Her Country a ‘Narco-State’  

    MIAMI—A Mexican senator has received death threats for speaking out boldly against the criminal cartels operating in her country. “I am under threat,” Sen. Lilly Tellez told The Daily Signal. “But I have faith in God, and that’s why I do this. And if we don’t speak about it, this will get worse, and no…
    Virginia Allen
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  • BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules on Mexico’s Attack on US Gun Manufacturers

    The Supreme Court unanimously struck down Mexico's challenge to U.S. gun manufacturers, holding that they cannot be blamed for crime and cartel violence south of the border. Justice Elena Kagan delivered the unanimous opinion of the court. Justices Clarence Thomas and Kentanji Brown Jackson filed concurring opinions. Kagan ruled that because Mexico did not plausibly…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • House Votes to Rename Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America

    The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to officially rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in federal documents. The vote was 211-to-206. No Democrats voted for the bill, and one Republican voted against the bill. Sixteen members did not vote. The bill will now be sent to the Senate for consideration….
    Jacob Adams
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  • Border Czar Homan Is ‘Shocked’ Mexico Won’t ‘Consider US Help’ to Combat Cartels  

    The president of Mexico has turned down an offer from President Donald Trump to send U.S. troops to Mexico to aid in combating the criminal cartels, a move that border czar Tom Homan says “shocked” him. “Taking out these cartels would make Mexico much safer for their citizens and tourists,” Homan told The Daily Signal….
    Virginia Allen
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  • Mexico Sends Tons of Sewage to San Diego, and Lee Zeldin Is Doing Something About It on Earth Day

    Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is flying out to San Diego Tuesday to address a “public health and environmental crisis” regarding sewage on the U.S.-Mexico border on Earth Day. “There is nowhere more important for me to be tomorrow than on the border in California, dealing with this very important public health and environmental…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • Raw Sewage From Mexico Sickening Navy SEALs, San Diego Residents

    THE CENTER SQUARE—San Diego officials say Mexico is continuing to release millions of gallons per day of raw sewage into the city’s waters despite its promises to end the flow that has sickened Navy SEALs and San Diego residents. “Mexico just dumped 6 million gallons of sewage into the Tijuana River—after promising they wouldn’t,” said San Diego…
    Kenneth Schrupp
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  • Trump Has Many Reasons to Be Upset With Mexico

    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Last time I talked about our North American problems with Canada. Now I want to turn…
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  • Mexico Is Our Enemy and We Should Act Accordingly

    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. I’d like to talk today about the status of Mexican-American, not as a Mexican-American citizen, but Mexico’s relationship with the United States. What is the Mexican-American…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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  • 28 AGs Call on US Supreme Court to Intervene in Mexico Gun Violence Case

    THE CENTER SQUARE—A coalition of 28 attorneys general has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a case in which Mexico is blaming U.S. gun manufacturers for Mexican cartel gun violence. At issue is a 2022 lawsuit brought by the Mexican government against U.S. gun manufacturers arguing they are responsible for Mexican cartel crime…
    Bethany Blankley
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  • Behind the Scenes of US-Mexico Border Crisis

    EL PASO, Texas—On the outskirts of this west Texas desert town, the “no go zone” of the U.S. border with Mexico is pitch black and tense at 10 p.m. Darkness suits everyone’s interests here; it appears neither border crossers nor U.S. Border Patrol agents want to be seen before they make their move. Anapra Road…
    Virginia Allen
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  • Allred vs. Cruz: 2 Opposing Visions for Texas’ Border With Mexico

    Last month, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warned voters not to be complacent and told the Lone Star State’s delegation to the Republican National Convention that “Texas is a battlefield.” In other words, Republican House and Senate victories aren’t guaranteed in a state that has voted for the GOP presidential candidate for 40 years.  Cruz, a…
    Virginia Allen
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  • ‘Import a New Electorate’: Congress Alarmed by Flyers in Mexico Urging Illegal Aliens to Vote Biden

    The “vote for President Biden” flyers found at a center for migrants in Mexico constitute foreign meddling in U.S. elections, congressional Republicans say.  Amid the ongoing crisis of illegal immigration at the southern border, the lawmakers decried flyers posted at the migrant services center near Brownsville, Texas, that tell illegal aliens: “Reminder to vote for…
    Fred Lucas
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  • After Discovery of ‘Vote for Biden’ Flyers in Mexico, Mayorkas Can’t Say How to Stop Illegal Aliens From Voting

    After the revelation of flyers at a Mexican shelter reminding unlawful border crossers “to vote for President Biden,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas couldn’t tell Congress on Tuesday how his department could safeguard U.S. elections from illegal voting by foreigners.  “We do not oversee the election enrollment process,” Mayorkas told the House Homeland Security Committee….
    Fred Lucas
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  • Pulling Dead Bodies From the Rio Grande: The Daily Life of Fire and Rescue on the US-Mexico Border

    EAGLE PASS, TEXAS—Pulling “three or four bodies out” of the Rio Grande in one day is not unheard of for Harish Garcia or his colleagues at the Eagle Pass fire station near the border of Mexico, he says.   “Before all the immigration started with people crossing and everything, we would still get [dead bodies in…
    Virginia Allen
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  • ‘DIMINISHED FACULTIES’: Biden Mixes Up Mexico and Egypt in News Conference After Report Questions His Mental State

    President Joe Biden gave a tumultuous news conference hours after special counsel Robert Hur released a report Thursday recommending against charging him for retaining classified documents from his years as vice president and senator, in part because the jury would find Biden sympathetic as an “elderly man with a poor memory” and because his “diminished…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • Appeals Court Forces Biden Admin to Sell Oil Leases in Gulf of Mexico

    A federal appeals court ruled Monday night that the Biden administration must hold a large sale of offshore oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico without added ecological protections. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, a subagency of the Interior Department, must—within 37 days—hold "Lease Sale…
    Nick Pope
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