(The Center Square) – The Drug Enforcement Administration said Monday it seized drugs, guns and millions of dollars in cash during a week-long surge effort aimed at the Sinaloa Cartel. 

(The Center Square) – Federal agents made history by seizing the largest volume of precursors used to produce methamphetamine after interdicting two shipments from two ships on the high seas.

(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump maintained in conversations with reporters Wednesday that Tuesday’s deadly strike on a small Venezuelan boat carrying 11 alleged drug traffickers was warranted and should serve as a warning to anyone trying to smuggle drugs into the country.

(The Center Square) – Despite many arguing the border crisis is over because illegal entries at the southwest border have dropped to their lowest level in recorded history, border-related and cartel crime is flourishing throughout the U.S.

(The Center Square) – As part of the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to pursue violent criminal foreign nationals, two federal indictments were made public charging 30 people, including several alleged leaders and members of Tren de Aragua (TdA). The Trump administration designated the violent Venezuelan gang as a foreign terrorist organization earlier this year after a record number of Venezuelans illegally entered the country, including an unknown number with TdA ties.

(The Center Square) - The Trump administration announced sanctions against four Costa Rican drug traffickers and two business entities as part of an effort to crackdown on cocaine.

(The Center Square) – Drug Enforcement Administration officials plan to work with their counterparts in Mexico to target the gatekeepers of the smuggling corridors between the two nations.

(The Center Square) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and federal partners have arrested hundreds of criminal foreign nationals in Denver, and Tren de Aragua (TdA) members in Detroit, as federal immigration enforcement actions continue.

( The Center Square) – New Homeland Security Task Forces (HSTF) are launching nationwide to expand efforts to target transnational crime. A new HSTF launched in Houston this month, one month after a HSTF launched in the Midwest.