Meanwhile, south of the border…

Convicted Child Rapist Busted After Illegally Crossing Texas Border.

Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio Sector stopped a convicted child rapist from illegally immigrating to the U.S. again on Easter Sunday.

Agents assigned to the Eagle Pass Station arrested 36-year-old Gustavo Hurtado-Juarez for illegally crossing the Rio Grande River border with Mexico. The agents transported the Mexican national to the station for processing and a biometric background investigation. Agents learned that a Tennessee court convicted Hurtado-Juarez for aggravated statutory rape in Sumner County in 2010, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Dennis Smith.

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Cartel Violence Continues in Cancun — 98 Killings in First Three Months of 2018.

Cartel violence in Cancun continues in 2018 with 98 homicides registered in the first three months of the year.

With the new wave of murders and attacks over the Easter weekend, Cancun closed the first three months with 10 more executions, according to El Diario de Yucatán.

The violence gripping the once peaceful beach resort city also spread to Playa del Carmen to a lesser extent, which also reported three killings over the holiday weekend.

According to local media reports, five people were executed and two others shot on Good Friday in Cancun.

Authorities reported the discovery bodies dumped on the sides of roads at two separate locations in addition to the grisly finding of three bags containing the remains of two murder victims. Later in the afternoon, two brothers were found executed after police responded to reports of shots fired. Two other victims were reported shot at another location but are expected to survive. Good Friday ended with two more victims wounded by gunfire at two separate locations in Benito Juarez.

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Border Arrests Increase 200 Percent Above Previous Year.

The number of illegal immigrants arrested along the southwest border with Mexico and declared inadmissible jumped 200 percent in March when compared to the previous year. Border Patrol agents arrested nearly 38,000 migrants in the month of March, an increase of more than 10,000 in a single month.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials released the new apprehension numbers in its Southwest Border Migration Report on Wednesday evening. In one month, total apprehensions increased from 26,662 in February to 37,393 in March — an increase of 40.25 percent. When compared to March 2017, the number of arrests and aliens designated as inadmissible more than doubled, CBP officials stated.