DONA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico (KVIA) — Many Mexicans are now reversing a longtime trend of marijuana smuggling from Mexico into the U.S. For many decades, the marijuana business was made moving weed from Mexico into the United States, but with the drug’s legalization in several U.S. states, many Mexico residents are now choosing to
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — In this ABC-7 Xtra, Luis Chaparro takes us inside a Narco Junkyard in Juarez. Watch ABC-7 at 10 Thursday night to watch the full story.
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CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico (KVIA) — As violent crime spikes in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua’s state authorities are employing innovative technology to combat criminal activity. With 125 homicides recorded in January alone, alarm bells have sounded throughout Chihuahua’s law enforcement agencies. To address this surge in violence, authorities have implemented the Central Command Surveillance System of Chihuahua,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The human smuggler networks operating on this side of the border are using local hotels to stash hundreds of migrants after crossing illegally into the country from Mexico in an attempt to avoid getting caught. A human smuggler granted ABC-7 exclusive access to a hotel room where he was stashing
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Watch ABC-7’s Luis Chaparro’s special report “Smuggled and Stashed” Monday night, only on ABC-7 at 10.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — As the holidays near, wait times at the international bridges between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez lengthen. On a typical holiday weekend, wait times at major international bridges can span up to two hours. If you cross the border regularly, you may have witnessed people in line fighting. Borderland residents
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — As the narcocorrido, a Mexican traditional drug ballad, gains popularity worldwide and artists like Peso Pluma and Nathanael Cano keep climbing to the top of the music charts, the origins of the genre are widely unknown in the U.S. A narcocorrido is a traditional Mexican ballad, but with lyrics that
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — More and more Americans are now smuggling migrants across the border, enticed by the money paid by Mexican drug cartels. ABC-7 interviewed an American human smuggler who revealed details about the human smuggling operations in this region. The interview took place in an undisclosed location in New Mexico, and we
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Thousands of migrants arrive at the U.S. border with Mexico every day. ABC-7 embedded with a group of migrants on Monday morning as they desperately looked for a way to cross the Rio Grande. The group of about 600 said they had disembarked a train from southern Mexico that morning
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — As drug cartel-related violence spikes in Ciudad Juárez, criminal organizations in Mexico are increasingly attempting to recruit U.S. deported veterans, according to multiple sources who spoke with ABC-7. The veterans’ set of skills, learned while serving in the military, makes veterans deported into Mexico a valuable asset for criminal organizations,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The number of migrants dying in the desert around this region is up almost double from last year, according to official figures from Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Amidst the record-breaking temperatures registered this summer, El Paso border authorities have reported more rescues and more deaths by dehydration and heat
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