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How firearms smuggling actually works, according to a weapons specialist

Ed Calderon was a police officer in Baja California, Mexico for 12 years, working in counter-narcot…

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How American guns help Mexican cartels overwhelm Mexico's police and military

"It is getting to a point where we are not equipped enough to fight back," a Mexican state police o…

Luis Chaparro   


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Criminals are buying guns in US states with loose gun laws and then smuggling them to Haiti, UN says

Handguns that sell for $400 to $500 in the United States can be resold for $10,000 in Haiti, accord…

Katie Balevic   


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George Santos took campaign donation from an Italian who was caught smuggling undocumented migrants into the US

Rep. George Santos accepted a contribution from Rocco Oppedisano, who was caught trying to smuggle …

Joshua Zitser   


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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will crack down on gun ownership, limiting handguns and stripping domestic abusers of their firearms

"We need only look south of the border to know that if we do not take action firmly and rapidly it …

Marta Biino   


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How smaller doses of more powerful drugs allowed Mexican cartels to overwhelm Mexican police and flood the US

"If Mexican authorities seized more than 100 kilograms, it means criminals are producing at least s…

Luis Chaparro   


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'El Chapo' has been locked up for 5 years, but business has never been better for the Sinaloa cartel

"US authorities used El Chapo's case to justify their presence in Mexico, but [his arrest] doesn't …

Luis Chaparro   


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Trump's crackdown on the US-Mexico border has been a moneymaker for border agents working with traffickers

Under Trump, corruption among US Border Patrol agents has increased dramatically, experts, former o…

Luis Chaparro   


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TSA catches man smuggling a handgun hidden in a DVD player at JFK Airport

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) discovered the handgun when the bag was going thro…

Cadie Thompson,Benjamin Zhang   


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The dark net might be changing drug smuggling routes

Cocaine, which is almost exclusively cultivated in South America, is mostly smuggled through Africa…

Barbara Tasch   


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Four Arrested Trying To Smuggle Guns Into Mexico

The Brownsville Herald (http://bit.ly/1fUPy0P ) reports that U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fi…

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Iranian Linked To Supreme Leader's Business Empire Wanted By US For Attempted Arms Smuggling

The Arizona case apparently is not the first time Dolatzadeh was indicted in the United States on a…

Steve Stecklow, Reuters   


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Immigration and Customs Enforcement has kept its use of deadly force secret. Until now.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has kept its use of deadly force secret. Exclusive documents re…

Lila Hassan   


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The ruthless Sinaloa Cartel has flooded the US with fentanyl and business is booming. A shocking DOJ indictment reveals how they do it.

Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel is run by "Los Chapitos," the sons of the infamous drug lord Joaquín "El Ch…

Nathan Rennolds   


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Mexico's cartels are finding new ways to get their hands on a new kind of gun

The flow of black-market weapons facilitates cartel turf wars and has driven killings in Mexico to …

Luis Chaparro   


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Man plotted to kill former President George W. Bush, FBI claims

Shihab Ahmed Shihab told an FBI informant that he wanted to "murder" the former president, accordin…

Charles R. Davis   


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Weapons in Ukraine aren't flooding Europe's black markets, but that could change

Officials across Europe and in the US are monitoring arms flows to try to keep military-grade weapo…

Charles R. Davis   


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QAnon adherents are trawling the border to pick up migrant children under the belief that they're being trafficked by pedophiles: report

A band of QAnon followers guided by a conspiracy theory is intercepting tired and hungry migrant ch…

Cheryl Teh   


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A lawsuit and an arms deal highlight Mexico's messy relationship with US guns

Mexico is suing major US gunmakers over illegal arms sales, even as it legally buys their guns for …

Luis Chaparro   


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FBI arrests 3 alleged neo-Nazis who were armed and anticipating a race war

Concerned about the possibility of violence, such as deadly events of the 2017 white supremacist ma…

Ryan Pickrell