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Kevin Sieff

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 3, 2026
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Jul 24, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Kevin Sieff, Vivian Salama

    The Schism Within the Trump Administration on Mexico (opens the original)

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    To hear Ronald D. Johnson tell it, the United States and Mexico have entered an era of blissful cooperation. Johnson, a former Army and intelligence officer who took up his post as U.S. ambassador to Mexico in the spring of 2025, has chronicled on his social-media feeds joint efforts to incapacitate drug cartels, tackle the screwworm pandemic, halt illegal immigration, imprison wildlife traffickers, dismantle criminal finance networks, and expand soybean exports. That’s just over the past two we

  2. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Kevin Sieff

    A Reverse Ellis Island (opens the original)

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    Julio Borrell knew he was being deported, but after 47 hours on a bus rattling through Mexico, he still had no idea where the United States was sending him. Through the window, he saw the cities give way to sprawling banana plantations and coffee farms. The passengers were still wearing whatever clothes they’d had on when they were detained by ICE: shirts splattered with paint from their most recent job, pajama pants, landscaping-company uniforms, bathing suits. Borrell had lived in Miami for 46

  3. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · Kevin Sieff

    Influencers Are the Sinaloa Cartel’s Newest Targets (opens the original)

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    Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. Last Tuesday night, I was eating sushi with a Mexican police chief in downtown Culiacán, a city that had momentarily flickered back to life amid a bloody cartel turf war. At the table next to us was a birthday party. The police chief ordered a salmon roll. Through the window, I could see groups of families and friends walking on the sidewalk, past car dealerships and strip malls, after months of self-imposed lockdown. Among them were three

  4. Article · Jul 24, 2026 · Kevin Sieff

    A Planeload of Informants (opens the original)

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    The governor of Baja California is a 40-year-old attorney and former big-city mayor named Marina del Pilar. Her state, which includes the megacity of Tijuana, is a magnet for American tourists, and also for narcotics cartels. As a politician of some experience, she is presumably unfazed by the sorts of challenges that come with governing a volatile section of her volatile country. And yet, in what has quickly become a very famous recording of a phone call that leaked last week, she has difficult

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