CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Gabriel Cardona takes pictures for a living. He captures moments in time. Now he wishes he could go back to when things were normal. His wife Pati died of Covid-19 in May. She battled for 15 days in the hospital. In her final moments she was on a ventilator. Gabriel
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexico upped its “estimated” Covid-19 deaths to 89,612 on Monday, and boosted estimates of its total number of cases to 870,699, almost 137,000 more than it previously recognized. Ciudad Juarez accounts for 7,441 of the nation’s Covid-19 cases and 861 deaths as of Monday’s count. Even with the new estimated death
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EL PASO, Texas — BIO El Paso-Juarez, a non-profit created by the Medical Center of the Americas, is helping 17 El Paso businesses ramp up their production of personal protective equipment and medical devices. The non-profit said it’s using $400,000 of federal CARES Act funding granted by the city mostly to give manufactures training they
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(Editor’s note: An earlier version of the story indicated the facility is in Clint. While the property is within the Clint ISD boundaries, the shelter is in Montana Vista.) EL PASO, Texas — A 25-acre facility built in July to house migrant children in the Montana Vista area of east El Paso County is getting
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — It has been more than six months since border restrictions were implemented across North America to slow the spread of Covid-19. Canada, the U.S. and Mexico have all limited nonessential travel since the pandemic began. Many businesses in the downtown El Paso area, especially those near the international bridges, rely
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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee claims that three agents attempted to deport him despite an order preventing his removal and allegedly beat him when he refused to board the plane, according to a lawsuit filed Friday. Bakhodir Madjitov, a 39-year-old Muslim man from Uzbekistan, alleges that three ICE agents attempted to force him on
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UPDATE: WASHINGTON, DC — Travel restrictions on the United States’ shared borders with Mexico and Canada have been extended through Oct. 21 due to concerns over the spread of Covid-19, acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan announced on Twitter Friday morning. The announcement came one day after Mexico’s Foreign Ministry indicated it had requested
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CHAPARRAL, New Mexico – U.S. Border Patrol agents said Wednesday they had uncovered a a human smuggling operation that utilized a “stash” house in Chaparral. A weekend raid found 57 undocumented immigrants crowded inside that alleged stash house. Authorities contend a permanent U.S. resident and his wife operated the smuggling ring that brought in people
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Drug Enforcement Administration has seized hundreds of pounds of meth in the West Texas/New Mexico region already this year. It’s part of the DEA’s Operation Crystal Shield. Now, ABC-7 is learning new details about the operation. ABC-7 was the only English-language television station in the Borderland to speak with
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NEW YORK, NY — Toilet paper is back on store shelves. But you may not recognize some of the brands. Demand for toilet paper has been so high during the pandemic that in order to keep their shelves stocked, retailers are buying up foreign toilet paper brands, mostly from Mexico. Major chains, across the country,
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — An El Paso teenager was arrested in Juarez after municipal police responding to a shots fired call said they found him with a high-powered rifle that had a laser sight, silencer and magazine loaded with 14 rounds of ammunition. As is Mexico law enforcement protocol, the 19-year-old El Pasoan was identified
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EL PASO, Texas — A woman who alleged she was assaulted by two guards at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in El Paso was being deported Monday night, her attorney said. The Mexican woman was identified as Jane Doe 1 in complaints of sexual assault and harassment at ICE’s El Paso Processing Center filed last
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EL PASO, Texas — How much of El Paso’s retail trade is comprised by Mexican visitors? That’s just one of the questions a survey conducted by the city was designed to answer and expand upon. The City of El Paso’s International Bridges Department and El Colegio de la Frontera Norte conducted a Cross Border Survey between
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NEW YORK, NY — A panel of three federal judges on Thursday blocked an order from President Donald Trump to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census count that’s used to allocate seats in Congress. The court ruled Thursday that the President’s July order violates federal laws that set out how congressional seats are apportioned, and granted
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LOS ANGELES, California — After last year’s instant fandom, Barbie is back with a second Dia De Muertos collectibles doll to honor Mexican heritage. The release of the toy maker’s Signature Dia De Muertos 2020 Doll (GNC40) was announced on Wednesday, and it takes on a different look featuring a braided up-do, a captivating Calavera face design and a
Continue Reading HOUSTON, Texas — A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to stop detaining immigrant children in hotels before expelling them from the United States, saying the much-criticized practice skirted “fundamental humanitarian protections.” U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee ruled that the use of hotels as long-term detention spaces violates a two-decade-old settlement governing the
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexico leads the world in coronavirus deaths among its health care workers, Amnesty International said in a new report this week. It said Mexico has reported 1,320 confirmed deaths from Covid-19 so far, surpassing the United States at 1,077, the United Kingdom at 649, and Brazil at 634. The report is likely to
Continue Reading DALLAS, Texas — Stolen almost two decades ago from an ancient abbey in northeastern Italy, a trafficked 19th century art piece is making its way back home. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency recovered a 19th century painting Wednesday looted from the Abbey of Santa Maria in Sylvis in Sesto al Reghena, Italy, in
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Hundreds of migrant children have been held in hotels, in El Paso and throughout Texas and the southern U.S., and guarded by government contractors in recent months as part of a secretive new system that advocates warn puts kids in danger. Immigrant and civil rights groups accuse the U.S. government of
Continue Reading HORIZON CITY, Texas — A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent has been arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and THC products, officials confirmed Wednesday. 37-year-old Karina Padilla was arrested at a home in Horizon City last weekafter Texas Department of Public Safety agents served a search warrant. Padilla has been a CBP employee
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump has tried to keep his promised border wall with Mexico in the public eye during his re-election bid, recently touting the completion of 300 miles of it on a trip to Yuma, Arizona. But the wall brought Trump unwanted attention Monday when former White House adviser Steve Bannon appeared
Continue Reading SAN DIEGO, California — A federal judge on Monday blocked U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees from conducting the initial screening for people seeking asylum, dealing a setback to one of the Trump administration’s efforts to rein in asylum. The nationwide injunction will likely have little, if any, immediate impact because the government has effectively
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NEW YORK, NY — A May 2021 trial date was set Monday for Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, on charges that he cheated donors to a group seeking to fund a Mexico border wall. Bannon, 66, of Washington, D.C., was audible but not visible on a video screen as he appeared for the first
Continue Reading US Border Patrol agents seized over $1 million worth of cocaine last week after it washed up on a Florida beach. Thirty packages were discovered last Monday by a person on the beach in Hollywood, Florida, just south of Fort Lauderdale, according to a statement from US Border Patrol Miami Sector. The beachgoer contacted the
Continue Reading CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican actor and comedian Manuel “El Loco” Valdés died Friday at the age of 89, his daughter Arcelia Valdés Larrañaga confirmed to CNN. The actor’s daughter added that the cause of death was gastric metabolic acidosis. Manuel Valdés was born in 1931 in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and began his artistic career
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SAN DIEGO, California — A Trump administration crackdown on nonessential travel coming from Mexico amid the coronavirus pandemic has created massive bottlenecks at the border, with drivers reporting waits of up to 10 hours to get into the U.S. An employee at a company that provides support for businesses with Mexican operations saw the huge
Continue Reading AGUASCALIENTES, Mexico — Viridiana Álvarez Chávez was 28 when she first started exercising. She was 36 when she broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest ascent of the top three highest mountains with supplementary oxygen (female) in only one year and 364 days. Chávez completed the trifecta of climbs in 2019 and submitted her
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EL PASO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents thwarted a drug smuggling attempt Friday and seized illegal drugs with an estimated street value of about $270,000. An Ysleta Border Patrol agent conducting surveillance saw an individual approach the border fence shortly after midnight on Friday morning. Agents searched the area and found an abandoned plastic
Continue Reading NEW YORK, NY — President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon pleaded not guilty to charges that he ripped off donors to “We Build The Wall” in federal court Thursday, hours after he was pulled from a yacht off the coast of Connecticut and arrested. The accusations were contained in an indictment unsealed in
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EL PASO, Texas – Dozens of undocumented immigrants were discovered in what authorities described as a pair of “stash” houses in El Paso, U.S. Border Patrol officials said Thursday. In all, 36 people were taken into custody, officials said, from the two locations – one located near El Paso International Airport, and the other an
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