US declares Mexican cartels terrorist organizations, Musk floats drone strikes
The State Department has declared several Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations, with Department of Government ...
Thousands of US and Mexican troops are at the border. Here’s where they are and what they’re doing
Border commuters are experiencing an extra layer of screening at the San Diego-Tijuana border as Mexican soldiers began ...
Pentagon orders budget revamp to reinvest $50 billion into Trump defense priorities
The review could set the stage for Defense Secretary Hegseth to follow through with goals to invest more in the Asia-Pacific ...
C.I.A. Expands Secret Drone Flights Over Mexico
The covert program, begun during the Biden administration and stepped up by President Trump, is hunting for the location of ...
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Mexico warns the US not to 'invade our sovereignty' in fight against cartels
As the US officially designates six Mexican cartels as terrorist groups, Mexico's president warns the United States against ...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pays uncommon visit to border in show of force
In 2018, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited troops at ... along the 2,000-mile border comes during a testy time in the U.S.-Mexico relationship. Earlier Monday, in an 11th-hour agreement ...
Defense Secretary tells Pentagon to plan for 8% in budget cuts, WaPo reports
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered senior leaders at the Pentagon and throughout the U.S. military to develop plans for cutting 8% from ...
Four ways of looking at Trump’s Ukraine tirade
Your trusty NatSec Daily authors and POLITICO’s team across the Atlantic have been collating widespread reactions to Trump’s ...
In the Trump administration, nearly every major department is an immigration agency
President Donald Trump’s sweeping promises have translated into a whole-of-government approach for immigration enforcement.
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Crisp: The Gulf formerly known as Mexico
As he flew over it on Feb. 9, President Donald Trump, by executive order, renamed the Gulf formerly known as Mexico as the Gulf of America. This, he said, is “even bigger than the Super Bowl,” which ...
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Democratic senators press Hegseth for cost and troop impact of immigration operations
Two Democratic senators are demanding answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about the rising cost of the military’s ...
Thousands of DHS agents shift to deportation instead of drugs, weapons and human trafficking
Redeploying Homeland Security Investigations agents is part of a broader Trump effort. But some fear many serious transnational crimes will go unprobed.