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Federal authorities in the United States and Mexico said they'd located an unfinished smuggling tunnel this week during a border sweep in Nogales, Ariz. The unfinished tunnel originates in Mexico and extends 133 feet into the United States, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement.

Compare violent crime rates in Mexico to other countries. Comparison of international rape, murder and assault rates to Mexico.

A 6.7-magnitude earthquake has struck Mexico, shaking buildings and sending people rushing out on to the street.

The number of people attempting to illegally cross the U.S-Mexico border has plummeted, but the number of migrants dying during the trek through the mostly desert region has not. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection continues its efforts to secure the border and prevent deaths in the area, Border Patrol officials said.

Documentary showing the situation of the illegal immigrants in Central America to USA, via Mexico.

The triple threat of drug smuggling, illegal aliens, violent gangs, and the concomitant rise in violence is no more evident than in the state of Texas. Along the U.S. border with Mexico there are 43 Ports of Entry. Of these 43 entry points, 18 are in Texas.

Mexico's government says it's "profoundly worried" by the killing of a Mexican migrant who was shot last week by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona. The Foreign Relations Department said in a statement Thursday that it has asked for a thorough investigation into the slaying of Gabriel Sanchez Velazquez.

- More than 5,000 people have been evacuated on the Gulf of Mexico - It is considered to pose a serious risk to several communities in the region. - Will cause rivers to overflow and create flash floods and mudslides.

Over the past five decades, Mexicans have constituted the single largest group of immigrants to the United States originating from Latin America. In 2011, 11.7 million Mexican immigrants resided in the United States, representing 29 percent of the US immigrant population and close to 4 percent of the overall US population.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Environmental advocates in states along the Mississippi River have won a round toward a long-term goal of having federal standards created to regulate farmland runoff and other pollution blamed for the oxygen-depleted "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico and problems in other bodies of water.