SAN DIEGO—A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a man to 15 years in prison for coordinating a smuggling trip in which two dozen migrants were stacked into a Ford Expedition that crashed into a tractor-trailer, killing 13 people outside a California desert town. Jose Cruz Noguez pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges stemming from…

SAN DIEGO—A federal judge on July 13 sentenced a man to 15 years in prison for coordinating a smuggling trip in which two dozen migrants were stacked into a Ford Expedition that crashed into a tractor-trailer, killing 13 people outside a California desert town. Jose Cruz Noguez pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges stemming…

SAN DIEGO—Authorities reached out to the public on July 6 for help in finding a fugitive suspected of killing his wife, a Santa Barbara County resident whose body was found just north of the U.S.-Mexico line in San Ysidro on the Fourth of July. German Luna Salazar, 44, allegedly bludgeoned 32-year-old Leyva Oregel Garcia to…

SAN DIEGO—A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer has been charged on July 3 in an indictment unsealed with allegedly accepting bribes to allow drug-laden vehicles across the U.S.-Mexico border. Leonard Darnell George is charged along with several others with conspiracy to import and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office…

“The place to go may not be heaven, but the place to escape must be hell.” Chen Weijie, a former Shenzhen fitness coach who followed the popular stowaways route to the United States in May, said that he never intends to return to China unless there is no more Communist Party rule. Chen Weijie is…

YUMA, Ariz.—Every night at the “Yuma gap,” where the California, Arizona, and United States-Mexico borders meet along the Colorado River, dozens or hundreds of migrants huddle in the thick brush waiting for their chance to come to America for a better life—a promise Mexican drug cartels have sold them for $500 to $5,000 a head….

Commentary Since January 2021, the Biden administration’s policy actions have undermined U.S. national security vis-à-vis China, including plans to reduce Navy ships and aircraft, shrink the Army to fewer than 1 million soldiers for the first time in 20 years, divert military training focus from foreign threats to ideologically motivated personnel policies, and elevate “mitigating…

The Republican-led House on Jan. 9 was set to vote on the rules package for the 118th Congress that contains a list of concessions Speaker Kevin McCarthy was forced to make after four days of intense negotiations. President Joe Biden is facing criticism over his visit to the US-Mexico border, where he failed to encounter…

The Republican-led House on Jan. 9 was set to vote on a rules package that contained a list of concessions Speaker Kevin McCarthy was forced to make after four days of intense negotiations. President Joe Biden is facing criticism over his visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, where he failed to encounter any illegal immigrants, or…

The Republican-led House on Jan. 9 was set to vote on a rules package that contained a list of concessions Speaker Kevin McCarthy was forced to make after four days of intense negotiations. President Joe Biden is facing criticism over his visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, where he failed to encounter any illegal immigrants, or…