“Mexico” on The Daily Caller

On the anniversary of fallen Border Patrol agent Brian Terry’s death, moving video has surfaced of his family, friends and fellow law enforcement officers and U.S. Marines waiting at the airport in Michigan for Terry’s body. The fallen agent’s body is carried from the plane by uniformed pallbearers, and escorted to his friends and family by a traditional bag pipe player. (more)

According to a spokesperson for Mexican president Felipe Calderon, Mexico’s government was left in the dark about a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration drug money laundering scheme that allegedly facilitated the transfer of millions of dollars to Mexican drug cartels. (more)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico said Wednesday that a son of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and three relatives had plotted to sneak into Mexico under false names and take clandestine refuge at a posh Pacific coast resort. (more)

Five illegal immigrants armed with at least two AK-47 semi-automatic assault rifles were hunting for U.S. Border Patrol agents near a desert watering hole known as Mesquite Seep just north of the Arizona-Mexico border when a firefight erupted and one U.S. agent was killed, records show. (more)

Republican presidential candidate and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman told The Daily Caller on Tuesday that he thinks Attorney General Eric Holder should resign immediately. (more)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The country’s top Cabinet secretary, Francisco Blake Mora, a key figure in Mexico’s battle with drug cartels, died in a helicopter crash Friday with seven others, including the pilot, the government said. (more)

According to the Anonymous “IberoAmerica” Blog and former Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown, the hacker organization’s plan — to release a list of collaborators with the bloody drug cartel Los Zetas — is back on. (more)

The House Oversight Committee has issued a subpoena to the Department of Justice demanding documents pertaining to the Operation Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal. (more)

New Department of Justice documents the House Oversight Committee released Thursday morning show Attorney General Eric Holder was briefed on Operation Fast and Furious many more times than previously discovered documents suggested. They also show that Holder was given detailed information on what happened in Fast and Furious. (more)

Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona told The Daily Caller on Wednesday that Obama administration officials responsible for Operation Fast and Furious might be accessories to murder. (more)

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry says he is open to sending American troops to Mexico to help battle drug cartels. (more)

Mexican drug cartels have expanded the scope of their U.S. operations over 300 percent in two years, from operating in at least 230 cities in 2008 to more than 1,000 cities in 2010, according to a comparison of the U.S. Justice Department’s National Drug Threat Assessments. (more)

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rick Santorum launched a new front for GOP attacks on Gov. Rick Perry’s immigration record during Thursday’s debate in Orlando, Fla., charging the Texas governor with supporting a plan for bi-national health insurance with Mexico. (more)

Congressional investigators probing Operation Fast and Furious are not the only ones who are frustrated: President Barack Obama’s administration appears to be withholding information from high-ranking Mexican law enforcement officials, too. (more)

Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man, lost about $8 billion this week. (more)

The New York Times has already attracted attention for an article published last week by Damien Cave that examined the apparent decrease in annual illegal immigration numbers, attributing the pattern partly to improvements in Mexicans’ quality of life.  (more)

CHETUMAL, Mexico (AP) — Police say a woman was caught trying to sneak her common-law-husband out of a Mexican prison in a suitcase following a conjugal visit. (more)

(AP) CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A spray-painted sign threatening death for U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents was found Friday next to a school in a northern Mexico state capital, officials said. (more)

The elderly are killed. Young women are raped. And able-bodied men are given hammers, machetes and sticks and forced to fight to the death. (more)

TUCSON — Obama administration officials are sharpening their crackdown on the hiring of illegal immigrants by focusing increasingly tough criminal charges on employers while moving away from criminal arrests of the workers themselves. (more)