KEN SALAZAR

The United States’ motivation to find infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero was never in doubt.

Retired federal judge Michael Luttig testified that the vice president had no authority to declare Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 election.

Mexico’s immigration enforcement is increasingly militarized with the armed forces and National Guard now accounting for more migrant detentions than immigration agents.

Mexico has deported the alleged leader of a bloodthirsty gang of border hitmen, one day after his arrest caused retaliatory shooting and burning that closed U.S. border crossings

Avocado inspections were halted last week after one of the U.S. inspectors was threatened in the western state of Michoacan.

The U.S. had halted inspections of avocados from Mexico on Saturday, after a USDA inspector received a verbal threat.

Mexico Avocados Violence A worker selects avocados at a packing plant in Uruapan, Mexico, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. Mexico has acknowledged that the U.S. government has suspended all imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threat. (AP Photo/Armando Solis) (Armando Solis)MEXICO CITY — (AP) — The U.S. Embassy announced Friday that Washington is lifting a ban on inspections of Mexican avocados, freeing the way for exports to resume. There have been frequent reports that some packers in Mexico are buying avocados from other, non-certified states, and trying to pass them off as being from Michoacan. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

The U.S. Embassy in Mexico says that Washington is lifting a ban on inspections of Mexican avocados, freeing the way for exports to resume.

Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar and the Department of Justice’s Office of International Affairs hosted a regional bilateral meeting in Tijuana, Mexico to discuss security cooperation matters. Specifically, the two delegations discussed deepening coordination on fighting human smuggling and firearms trafficking in the region. The two delegations discussed how they could build on and further strengthen existing coordination of enforcement efforts and information-sharing, in order to combat arms trafficking and human smuggling. Both agreed to continue to identify, investigate, and prosecute individuals responsible for the illegal exportation of firearms that are ending up in the hands of violent cartels and criminal organizations. The U.S. and Mexico law enforcement partners committed to enhanced information sharing and future coordination meetings.

President Joe Biden has joined with the leaders of Canada and Mexico to revive what used to be a North American tradition before the Trump presidency.

The United States and Mexico have restarted high-level economic talks after a four-year pause.

During the campaign, President Biden said he'd put U.S. diplomacy back in the "hands of genuine professionals," but only one of his ambassadors to a foreign capital has been confirmed.

Nine ambassadorial picks include Tom Nides for Israel and Ken Salazar for Mexico. "Sully" Sullenberger, who pulled off a tricky landing on the Hudson River, is tapped for a U.N. aviation panel.

Mr Sullenberger is known for being the pilot who landed a plane on the Hudson River in 2009

President Joe Biden announced plans to nominate Ken Salazar to be the U.S. ambassador to Mexico and Tom Nides to be ambassador to Israel.

President Biden's nominees include ambassadors to the key countries of Israel and Mexico, among other countries.

President Joe Biden has unveiled picks for nine ambassadorial postings, turning to a group that includes career diplomats, political allies and an American aviation hero.

President Joe Biden is giving serious consideration to nominating Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of President John F.

The four-time Grammy winner isn't the only Biden playlist mainstay helping his campaign against President Donald Trump. Still, Biden has gone beyond celebrities in search of campaign surrogates. Stars generate candidate buzz, help with fundraising and can build campaign event crowds even for those online. His reelection campaign has been holding its own online events with top supporters nearly every night for months and says its online events average 2.6 million views per broadcast, though its headliners are often the presidents children. The Trump campaign has also seized on Biden's preferred venue for participating in online events, a basement studio in his Delaware home accusing the former vice president of hiding from voters.

Two alternatives could allow lease sales on lands previously designated as special conservation areas under the Obama administration. The goal of a new management plan is increased energy production and greater energy security for the nation, BLM Alaska director Chad Padgett said. The petroleum reserve was created in 1923 by President Warren Harding as the Naval Petroleum Reserve and set aside as an emergency oil supply for the Navy. The plan also created the Peard Bay Special Area, which contains the highest density of spectacled eider nesting areas in Alaska, according to the Alaska Wilderness League. It enlarged the Utukok River Uplands Special Area, used by the western Arctic caribou herd for calving and relief from summer insects.