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Mexican forces seize fentanyl and meth in major border drug busts
Mexican authorities announced on Saturday the arrest of three individuals in Ciudad Juárez, near the U.S. border, who were found with 110,000 fentanyl pills during a joint operation with the FBI.
Mexico’s security forces have increased drug seizures and arrests of traffickers amid pressure from the Trump administration to crack down on the trafficking of illicit substances—especially the deadly fentanyl, which has been responsible for hundreds of deaths in the United States.
According to a statement from the Public Security Secretariat, two men and a woman were arrested after a brief chase while traveling in a vehicle in Ciudad Juárez.
“During an inspection, officers discovered 10 packages wrapped in transparent plastic containing a total of 110,000 fentanyl pills,” the agency said, without specifying the exact date of the operation.
The woman is a U.S. citizen, one of the men holds dual Mexican-American nationality, and no further details were provided about the third individual.
The operation involved Mexico’s Army, Navy, and National Guard, and was carried out “in collaboration with the FBI,” the statement added.
“These arrests are part of the binational coordination efforts to stop drug trafficking,” the agency emphasized.
In a separate announcement, the Public Security Secretariat reported the arrest of a person transporting 322 kilograms of methamphetamine in Tijuana, another city on the U.S.-Mexico border. Following that arrest, security forces raided a property where an additional 422 kilograms of meth were found.
While methamphetamine is primarily intended for the U.S. market, official reports indicate that consumption within Mexico is also on the rise.
International
“Corruption is betrayal”: Sheinbaum defends armed corces’ values in Veracruz
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum stated on Saturday that defending the country’s sovereignty requires values rooted in both individuals and institutions—values she said the Armed Forces possess. Her remarks came amid an ongoing investigation involving senior Navy officials accused of participating in a fuel smuggling network known as “huachicol fiscal.”
Sheinbaum delivered her speech in the port city of Veracruz, during a ceremony marking the 204th anniversary of the founding of the Mexican Navy and the 201st anniversary of the 1824 Federal Constitution, the first republican charter that established the nation’s three branches of government.
“The Mexican Armed Forces uphold honor, which demands integrity and reminds us that every action represents our nation; loyalty, which means absolute faithfulness to the people and the homeland; duty, which drives us to fulfill our mission without hesitation; patriotism, which is love for the nation expressed through dedication and sacrifice; and honesty, the foundation that gives meaning and strength to all other values—because without it, nothing endures,” Sheinbaum said.
She emphasized that corruption is the opposite of honesty, describing it as “a betrayal of all values and an act of disloyalty.” She insisted it “must have no place in our institutions and must be firmly punished.”
Her statements come after revelations of a corruption network allegedly led by Vice Admiral Manuel Roberto Farías Laguna, the detained nephew-in-law of former Navy Secretary Rafael Ojeda Durán (2018–2024), a close ally of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The case also involves ten naval officers and customs officials.
“The loyalty we owe to the homeland also means loyalty to our values and to the truth,” Sheinbaum concluded, calling for honesty to be upheld as a core principle of public service.
International
Supreme Court backs Trump move to end TPS for over 300,000 venezuelans
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld the Trump administration’s decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants living in the country.
In a 6–3 ruling, the high court sided with the Department of Homeland Security, overturning a previous federal court decision in California that had blocked the suspension of protections for about 600,000 immigrants, including Venezuelans and Haitians. While the ruling paves the way for the potential deportation of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, it is not expected to immediately affect Haitian beneficiaries under the program.
“Although the positions in the case have shifted, the legal arguments and the relative harms have not. The same outcome reached in May remains appropriate,” wrote the conservative majority, which had already ruled in a similar direction through emergency measures.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. In her opinion, Justice Jackson warned: “I cannot agree with this repetitive, gratuitous, and harmful interference in cases still pending in lower courts while lives hang in the balance.”
President Trump had asked the Supreme Court in late September to authorize the termination of deportation protections that, since 2021, had shielded roughly 300,000 Venezuelans. Lower courts had repeatedly blocked the move.
The ruling marks a temporary conclusion to a legal battle spanning more than two years and grants the administration the green light to move forward with revoking TPS for Venezuelans, despite the possibility of further appeals in lower courts.
International
U.S. government shutdown likely to continue into next week amid Senate deadlock
A U.S. government shutdown is now almost certain to extend into next week, despite another scheduled Senate vote this Friday, as divisions between Democrats and Republicans show no sign of easing.
This will mark the fourth Senate vote since the Republican-led House of Representatives passed a temporary funding bill extending government operations until September 21.
Republicans hold a majority in the Senate with 53 out of 100 seats, but they need at least 60 votes to pass the budget package. Analysts widely expect Friday’s attempt to fall short.
Federal agencies, along with some 750,000 employees, have been left without official funding since Wednesday, when the U.S. fiscal year expired and Congress failed to approve a stopgap measure.
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