YUMA, Arizona — President Donald Trump delivered a wide-ranging speech in Yuma to a crowd that resembled what some of his campaign rallies looked like earlier this summer amid the coronavirus pandemic — with little to no social distancing or masks among his supporters. In a speech accepting the endorsement of the National Border Patrol Council,
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EL PASO, Texas – An American teen was arrested with more than 150 pounds of liquid methamphetamine disguised as bottled water when he tried to enter El Paso at the Ysleta port of entry, officials said Tuesday. The seizure and arrest happened around 7 p.m. last Friday when an 18-year-old man tried to walk from
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Fire Department’s water rescue team pulled a body out of a central city canal on Tuesday afternoon. Crews responded after Border Patrol agents saw a person floating in the water at Delta and Cypress. But upon arrival, fire crews said the mission changed from a water rescue to
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EL PASO, Texas — Guards at the ICE El Paso Processing Center on Montana Avenue sexually assaulted and harassed inmates in a “pattern and practice” of abuse, according to a complaint filed by a Texas advocacy group urging the local district attorney and federal prosecutors to conduct a criminal investigation. (Read the entire document at
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and acting DHS Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli were named to their current roles in violation of the Vacancies Reform Act, according to a finding by the Government Accountability Office – which is the investigative arm of Congress. Wolf’s predecessor, former acting DHS Secretary Kevin
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EL PASO, Texas — The U.S. and Mexico are extending the closure of its shared border for another month to non-essential travel, officials from both nations confirmed Friday. “We continue to work with our Mexican partners to slow the spread of Covid-19. Accordingly, we have agreed to extend the limitation of non-essential travel at our
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — An off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent was arrested by Mexican authorities earlier this month when they allegedly found a cache of firearm ammunition in his personal car after he crossed into Juárez from El Paso. The incident happened in the early morning hours on Aug. 4 at the Bridge of the
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The mayor of Juárez issued a stern warning about face masks on Wednesday, saying police would enforce a new state mandate and arrest those in public who don’t wear face masks. The new decree issued by Chihuahua state government this week, according to Mexican media outlets, says anyone who puts the
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Trump may allow border agents to stop Americans suspected of having coronavirus from returning to the U.S. from Mexico, the New York Times reported Monday afternoon. The Trump administration has asked various federal agencies for their input on the proposed new rule within 24 hours, the Times indicated. It was unclear
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EL PASO, Texas — A body was recovered near the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso late Thursday night, according to fire department scanner traffic confirmed by dispatch. “They are out of the water,” a dispatcher said shortly after fire water rescue crews were sent to the area along the Border Highway near Fonseca about 10:15
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EL PASO, Texas — The lawyer for a witness of the recent deadly crash of a vehicle fleeing the Border Patrol agents confirmed Thursday that the El Paso District Attorney’s Office was attempting to stop the imminent deportation of her client – but she didn’t know if that effort would be successful. Wilmur Gomez, 25, of
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EL PASO, Texas — ABC-7 has learned that El Paso will soon be home to a site large enough for federal agents to process nearly 1,000 undocumented immigrants.The U.S. Border Patrol currently has a processing center right off of Hondo Pass on the city’s northeast side, which was the site where hundreds of migrants were
Continue Reading TOPEKA, Kansas — Kansas Republicans have nominated Rep. Roger Marshall for the U.S. Senate instead of polarizing conservative Kris Kobach of ‘We Build the Wall’ fame. Voters on Tuesday heeded the GOP establishment’s advice as it tries to keep a normally safe seat out of play, even though Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others
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EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents were caught on video saving a man’s life as he struggled to stay afloat in the American canal in El Paso. The video of the rescue was provided to ABC-7 by Customs and Border Protection officials. Border agents from the Ysleta Station were on routine patrol on
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EL PASO, Texas — The Consulate General of Mexico in El Paso held a ceremony Monday morning to honor of the victims of the Aug. 3, 2019 mass shooting. During the event, officials unveiled a memorial plaque. Eight Mexicans were among the 23 people killed in the shooting, while eight other Mexicans were wounded. Authorities
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A man wanted for murder in Virginia was arrested by Border Patrol agents who found him hiding in a restroom on a bus, authorities said Sunday. Agents arrested 20-year-old Salvadorian national Abel Alexander Castro Juarez around 10 p.m. Saturday. Agents working the Interstate 25 checkpoint north of Las Cruces were
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — It’s not ideal. It’s loud. It’s cramped. Yet, for Heriberto and Ana Sosa, it was the perfect place for them to get married. “We had these great plans,” Heriberto said. “I remember just telling her that no matter what, whatever happened or how many people were at the wedding, we
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EL PASO, Texas — Fire department water rescue crews pulled a body out of the water of a downtown El Paso canal on Wednesday evening. The body was discovered by Border Patrol agents floating in the canal along the 300 block of Calleros Court around 5:30 p.m. There was no immediate information on the identity
Continue Reading CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — As of Tuesday, Ciudad Juarez accounts for 4,288 of Chihuahua state’s 7,707 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 648 of its 885 deaths. “We insist that the measures must be redoubled, because we are in a new reality that will not end soon,” proclaimed Leticia Ruiz, the deputy director of Chihuahua’s Ministry
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HOUSTON, Texas — The Trump administration has agreed not to expel children it detained in a Texas hotel and will instead allow them to remain in the U.S. and pursue their immigration cases. The move comes days after The Associated Press first reported on the U.S. government’s secretive practice of detaining unaccompanied children in hotels
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The state of Chihuahua Secretary of Health became the latest victim of the coronavirus, the Mexican government announced Sunday. Dr. Jesús Enrique Grajeda Herrera, 73, suffered a heart attack around 6 a.m. and died as a complication from Covid-19. He had been hospitalized for two weeks, most recently in intensive care
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EL PASO, Texas — President Donald Trump’s attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from census figures that will be used to divide up seats in Congress among the states is now being challenged in federal court by a coalition of state and local governments that includes El Paso County. The Constitution requires a once-a-decade count of the “whole number
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The death toll from the coronavirus in Juárez reached 634 on Friday, with a prominent bar owner among the latest casualties. Mexican media outlets first reported the death of Sergio Peña Acosta, owner of the internationally-known Kentucky Club, at age 71 from Covid-19. His son, Sergio Peña Acosta Jr., later confirmed
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas is seeking videos and other documents related to a June 25 crash that killed seven people in a car fleeing Border Patrol agents. “For too long, the Border Patrol has operated in the shadows and with impunity,” Cynthia Pompa, the advocacy manager of the ACLU of
Continue Reading HOUSTON, Texas — The Trump administration is detaining immigrant children as young as 1 in hotels before deporting them to their home countries. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show a private contractor hired by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is taking children to three Hampton Inns in Arizona and Texas under restrictive border policies
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WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump is expected to sign a memorandum Tuesday that seeks to bar people in the U.S. illegally from being counted in congressional reapportionment, according to two officials familiar with the plans. The U.S. Supreme Court last year blocked the administration’s effort to add a citizenship question to the census form,
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CHIHUAHUA, Mexico — Farmers once again clashed with Mexican military forces to protest releases of water from a dam to repay a water debt owed to the United States. Images posted by congressman Mario Mata Carrasco showed tear gas canisters being fired over the heads of protesters at the Las Virgines dam in in the
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexico’s president said he is putting the army in charge of customs at border crossings and seaports to combat corruption and the massive smuggling of drugs and precursor chemicals. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador made the announcement during a visit over the weekend to the Pacific coast port of Manzanillo, where
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LOS ANGELES, California — U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the parent agency of the Border Patrol, has fired four border agents and suspended more than three dozen other employees without pay after a year-long investigation into what the agency called “inappropriate social media activity,” the Los Angeles Times has reported. A secretive Facebook group called
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — The U.S. border with Mexico is expected to remain closed until at least August 21, the Mexican embassy tweeted this week, extending the ban on non-essential travel between the two countries for another month. As word of the likely extension spread, downtown El Paso shop owners expressed concern Wednesday about the economic damage
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