Todd Bensman

Few Americans know this, but for at least 15 years, the Sinaloa Cartel has orchestrated an unceasing reign of sophisticated train robbery terror on the California and Arizona side of the Mexican border.

President Claudia Sheinbaum must surely fear catastrophic political fallout if the administration continues to pursue this approach.

El Salvador has launched a 'Reverse Migration' campaign with tax breaks to lure U.S. Salvadorans home.

Advocates of Salvadorans remaining in the United States must have felt relief recently when the Trump administration effectively stayed plans to terminate the endlessly renewed “Temporary” Protected Status that has shielded some 232,000 of them from deportation for two-plus decades.

Amid the Iran War and midterm U.S. electioneering, most Americans probably missed a potentially game-changing shift in President Donald Trump’s war against Mexico’s drug cartels. The administration has pivoted to a consequential new tactic that, according to some Mexico experts, could cripple the cartels if expanded. Though it has received little U.S. press coverage, this new strategy has the potential to be more effective than anything ever tried.

• October 6, 2026 Last week saw much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments among American voters and Trump administration officials

Following U.S.–Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear weapons project in the June 2025 “12-Day War,” U.S. intelligence agencies warned the American public that risk of retaliation against the United States would substantially increase “if Iranian leadership issued a religious ruling calling for retaliatory violence against targets in the Homeland.”

The U.S. Campaign Against Iran and Its Proxies in Latin America Must Include the Communist Regime of Daniel Ortega and His Nearly Two-Decade Relationship with Iran

The Trump administration's ongoing fraud probe into the refugee and U.S. citizenship approvals of Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., carries much more importance than many Americans realize as this political theater unfolds.

The Trump administration's ongoing fraud probe into Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar's refugee and U.S. citizenship approvals carries much more importance than many Americans realize as this political theater unfolds. (snip) To understand some of the issues with Somali immigration, it is worth understanding Somali's history since the January 1991 overthrow of Somali dictator Mohammed Siad Barre. Until about 2013, anarchy prevailed in the Muslim-majority nation. No effective government existed, let alone a vital records office, to issue uniform documents like birth certificates, driver's licenses, marriage and divorce records, or deaths.