Month: February 2019

The BBC reports a man sporting a Make America Great Again cap shoved and swore at its reporter, Ron Skeans, and other news crews before being pulled away. Skeans said the “very hard shove” came from his blindside. “I didn’t know what was going on,” he said. Video shows another man, also wearing a MAGA

Lawyers for rapper 21 Savage say he has been released on bond from federal immigration custody. In a statement, lawyers Charles Kuck, Dina LaPolt and Alex Spiro said the rapper, whose given name is She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, was released Tuesday. Abraham-Joseph was taken into immigration custody early on Feb. 3. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials

The Democratic speaker of the New Mexico House of Representatives says there is no way he would initiate impeachment proceedings against the state’s governor for withdrawing troops from the border with Mexico. An online petition seeks to impeach Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham for treason in withdrawing about 100 New Mexico National Guard troops and has

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s “unhappy” with a hard-won agreement to prevent a new government shutdown and finance construction of more barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, but he didn’t say whether or not he would sign the measure. GOP congressional leaders swung behind the proposed deal, selling it as a necessary compromise. “I can’t

President Donald Trump isn’t hiding the fact that he isn’t a dog person. He appeared impressed Monday night while describing the drug-detecting abilities of German shepherds that work for the U.S. Secret Service, but also made it abundantly clear that he can get by in his daily life without the slobbery canine companionship many of

President Donald Trump isn’t hiding the fact that he isn’t a dog person. He appeared impressed Monday night while describing the drug-detecting abilities of German shepherds that work for the U.S. Secret Service, but also made it abundantly clear that he can get by in his daily life without the slobbery canine companionship many of

The nonprofit National Butterfly Center has asked a federal judge to stop border wall activity on its property as the Trump administration gears up to build new walls and fencing in South Texas and may soon win funding for more. In a motion filed late Monday, center director Marianna Trevino Wright says heavy machinery has

An arrest has been made been made in the slaying of a 24-year-old woman whose body was found stuffed inside a suitcase in a wooded area in Connecticut, police said Tuesday. The suspect is accused of using an ATM card belonging to Valerie Reyes of New Rochelle, New York, and is also believed to have

El Paso Mayor Dee Margo once again responded to President Trump’s remarks about El Paso’s safety record. During Trump’s speech inside the El Paso County Coliseum, he said: “There’s no place better to talk about border security, whether they like it or not because I’ve been hearing a lot of things…’oh, the wall didn’t make

On Monday, the Diocese of Las Cruces released the names of thirteen more credibly accused former priests, including one who pled guilty to sexually assaulting a child prior to his assignment in Las Cruces. “These priests did not abuse here while they were serving in the Diocese of Las Cruces,” said Bishop Gerald Kicanas. “However,

President Donald Trump charged ahead Monday with his pledge to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, skimming over the details of lawmakers’ tentative deal that would give him far less than he’s been demanding and declaring he’s “setting the stage” to deliver on his signature campaign promise. In the first dueling rallies of the

President Donald Trump on Monday presented the border wall as a work in progress, hailing the start of a “big, big portion” with much more coming soon. That’s a hefty exaggeration from a president who has yet to see an extra mile of barrier completed since he took office. With another possible government shutdown looming,

The father of an El Paso teacher killed by an alleged hit-and-run driver illegally told Fox & Friends Monday morning he plans to join President Trump at his county coliseum rally. Dan Ferguson said he has lived in between 45 and 50 years in El Paso. “The wall is a great deterrent to illegal immigration.

The New Mexico State men’s basketball team has won nine in a row and just completed a two-game road sweep of CSU Bakersfield and Grand Canyon. But they know they need to remain focused with yet another important contest looming. The Aggies will meet Utah Valley Wolverines Thursday night at 7 p.m. at the Pan

Donald Trump Jr. is telling a crowd in Texas that Democratic lawmakers are fighting more for immigrants in the U.S. illegally than they are for the American people. Trump Jr. spoke Monday night shortly before his father was due to address the crowd in El Paso. He says he loves seeing young conservatives at the

With another government shutdown threat looming, President Donald Trump headed to the Texas border on Monday to argue his case that walls work as Democrats spurn his demands for billions to build such a barrier. ABC-7 APP USERS, CLICK HERE to watch the “Celebration for El Paso” and Beto O’Rourke’s live speech Trump was bound

Suddenly optimistic, congressional negotiators said late Monday that politically freighted talks on border security were back on track as they sped to avert a new federal shutdown this weekend. Agreement could be in sight as early as Monday night, they said. The talks had cratered on Saturday and Sunday over Democratic demands to limit immigrant

Congressional negotiators reached agreement Monday night to prevent a government shutdown and finance construction of new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, overcoming a late-stage hang-up over immigration enforcement issues that had threatened to scuttle the talks. Republicans were desperate to avoid another bruising shutdown. They tentatively agreed to far less money for President Donald Trump’s

Las Cruces police have arrested a man who allegedly robbed a Circle K Convenient store at 617 W. Picacho Ave shortly before 11 PM last Thursday, February 7th. Police say 23-year-old Anthony Dean Malone showed an employee he had a black handgun and demanded cash. Malone allegedly left with an undisclosed amount of cash and

The director of Annunciation House, Ruben Garcia, called a press conference Monday because he says, “the narratives that are floating out there that portray things that are simply not true.” “Refugees who are portrayed as somehow being a danger, being criminal deemed a threat to our communities, what you discover that you need to understand

Another large group of migrants are in custody after showing up at a remote border crossing in southwestern New Mexico. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the 330 Central Americans were apprehended early Monday at the Antelope Wells port of entry, 122 miles (197 kilometers) west of El Paso, Texas. This marks the second large

A Mexican union has declared total victory in a mass strike at 48 border assembly plants, but now the movement has spawned a storm of wildcat walkouts at other businesses. The union won 20 percent wage increases at all 48 “maquiladora” factories in Matamoros, a city across the border from Brownsville, Texas. The Industrial Workers

Eight immigrant families who were separated under Trump administration policy filed claims Monday seeking millions of dollars in damages for what a lawyer called “inexplicable cruelty” that did lasting damage to parents and children. The parents accused immigration officers of taking their children away without giving them information and sometimes mocking them or denying them

Congresswoman Veronica Escobar and several El Paso elected officials held a news conference Monday to ask President Donald Trump “to correct the record on his misleading State of the Union remarks about El Paso, and to apologize to El Pasoans for misrepresenting their hometown.” During his State of the Union address last week, President Trump

Reies Lopez Tijerina, a Pentecostal preacher turned activist who led a violent raid of a northern New Mexico courthouse more than 50 years ago and helped sparked the Chicano Movement, is the subject of a new Spanish-language documentary. Mexican director Angel Estrada Soto is showing his film, “They Called Me King Tiger,” around the U.S.

Lawyers for eight immigrant families separated under Trump administration policy filed claims Monday against the U.S. government demanding $6 million each in damages for what they describe as lasting trauma. The parents accused immigration officers of taking their children away without giving them information and sometimes mocking them or denying them a chance to say

A Missouri jail nurse who allegedly wanted to marry a man convicted of killing a lottery winner has been charged with poisoning her husband and setting their home on fire, according to court records. Amy Murray, 40, is facing charges including first-degree murder and arson in the Dec. 11 death of her husband, Joshua Murray.

El Paso, Texas, Mayor Dee Margo said hours before President Donald Trump is due to visit his city that Trump was wrong to claim a border barrier was responsible for El Paso’s drop in crime. Trump made the claim last week in his State of the Union Address when he said El Paso “used to

Detectives with the Crimes Against Persons Unit continue the investigation into a bar fight early Sunday morning that left a man with life threatening injuries. Police officers working in the area near the Don Haskins Center were flagged down and advised of the fight nearby at about 12:52 a.m. When the officers arrived, a large

President Donald Trump is trying to turn the debate over a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border back to his political advantage as his signature pledge to American voters threatens to become a model of unfulfilled promises. Trump will hold his first campaign rally since November’s midterm elections in El Paso, Texas, on Monday as he