MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Wednesday he plans to travel to Washington to meet with President Donald Trump, an announcement that was met with a storm of criticism in Mexico. López Obrador said he wants to make his first trip abroad in the first week of July to mark
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — The magnitude 7.4 earthquake that rocked the southern Mexico resort of Huatulco killed at least 6 people, damaged hundreds of homes and four archaeological sites and temporarily cut power to more than 2.4 million people, authorities said Wednesday. The quake that struck at 10:29 a.m. on Tuesday also caused a brief fire at
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EL PASO, Texas — Two people seen in the water along the Border Highway late Tuesday night managed to escape with their lives. Fire department water rescue crews responded to the Border Highway at the Yarbrough Drive ramp just before 11 p.m., but said the pair managed to get out before crews had fully deployed.
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YUMA, Arizona — President Donald Trump visited the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday to celebrate construction of more than 200 miles of wall, hoping it will remind voters of progress he’s made toward one his 2016 campaign promises. Trump credited the wall with stopping not just illegal immigration but also the coronavirus, saying “It stopped Covid, it
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EL PASO, Texas — Migrants detained by the Border Patrol in El Paso and elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border during last year’s surge were routinely subjected to overcrowded and substandard conditions. That’s according to a summary of a new government watchdog report published Sunday by the Arizona Republic newspaper. The newspaper’s breakdown is based on
Continue Reading CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexico posted another record one-day increase in confirmed coronavirus cases, with 5,662, while 667 more deaths were reported Thursday. The daily death toll has been hovering around 700 for much of this week, but the daily case load increase has usually remained below 5,000. Mexico now has seen 19,747 confirmed coronavirus
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in western Mexico said Thursday they have found the bodies of 12 men and two women dumped in two separate areas in the state of Jalisco. The state prosecutors’ office said the first group of bodies, three men and a woman, were found early this week near the city of
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WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, a stunning rebuke to the president in the midst of his reelection campaign. The outcome seems certain to elevate the issue in Trump’s campaign, given the anti-immigrant rhetoric of his first presidential run
Continue Reading CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexico’s coronavirus cases continued to increase at near-record levels Wednesday, as officials acknowledged the country is on a plateau with few signs of decrease, even as the economy starts reopening. The Health Department reported that confirmed cases in Mexico rose by 4,930, the second-highest daily increase to date, to reach an
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EL PASO, Texas — Two bodies were recovered from separate canals in the city on Wednesday, according to the El Paso Fire Department. The latest body was noticed in a canal in the 4600 block of Edna in south central El Paso, less than a mile away from the Mexican border, around 6 p.m. The
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EL PASO, Texas — According to a new study from a UTEP economics and finance professor, the value of the Mexican Peso is falling during the coronavirus pandemic and may further exacerbate the existing economic problems caused by the U.S. border closure to non-essential travel. The study findings came it was announced Tuesday that the
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Chihuahua state leaders began looking at the re-openings of more businesses shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, even as deaths and new cases continued at an unbroken pace. According to northern zone health officials, the city of Juárez posted 18 new coronavirus deaths and 13 additional cases on Tuesday. Juárez
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WASHINGTON, DC — The United States has extended its agreement with Mexico and Canada to keep their borders closed to non-essential travel until July 21 during the coronavirus pandemic. Previously set to be lifted on Sunday, those restrictions will now last until at least July 21. “Based on the success of the existing restrictions and the
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Professional boxing is set to return to Mexican television after a three-month halt on matches due to the coronavirus pandemic, promoters said Tuesday. The bouts are scheduled for Saturday in a television studio with no spectators. Even under those conditions, the Mexico City boxing commission has refused to sanction the fights,
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VAN HORN, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Van Horn station found multiple bundles of marijuana in the desert with an estimated value of several hundred thousand dollars. On two separate occasions within a week, agents found bundles of marijuana contained in makeshift backpacks out in the desert. The contents weighed over
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — After a weekend that saw 17 coronavirus deaths and over 200 new cases, the city of Juárez reported just seven additional infections on Monday with no new fatalities. All of Chihuahua state was on high alert Monday due to increased virus spread in the region, with 2,949 cases and 478 deaths
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LORDSBURG, New Mexico — A U.S. Border Patrol agent for the El Paso sector was found dead along a trail in a remote stretch of New Mexico’s Hidalgo County, officials confirmed Saturday. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in a statement issued Saturday, identified the deceased agent as 26-year-old Johan Mordan. CBP officials said Mordan was
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The Covid-19 pandemic continues to sweep through the city of Juarez and the state of Chihuahua, which has resulted in the Mexican government placing the region on “high alert.” Chihuahua Gov. Javier Corral Jurado said the federal government’s designation would take effect beginning Monday, and he anticipated it being in effect
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A judge has ordered a labor lawyer jailed pending trial on charges that prosecutors say stem from a protest this year and not from her leadership of strikes last year that won higher pay for workers at “maquiladora” assembly plants in the border city of Matamoros. The ruling came as demonstrations
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EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested an alleged rapist and rescued a woman from a canal during simultaneous operations early Wednesday morning. Shortly after midnight Wednesday, Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Paso station observed four people making what they described as an illegal entry into the U.S. near Modesto Gomez
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SAN DIEGO, California — The Trump administration on Wednesday night proposed sweeping restrictions on asylum, seeking to align a legal framework with the president’s efforts to limit immigration to the United States. The moves are only the latest in a series of measures that Trump has taken to limit asylum — this time aimed at
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Customs and Border Protection is holding a pair of job webinars Wednesday night and again Thursday morning. The agency is looking for candidates to serve as Border Patrol agents, Customs and Border Protection officers and air and marine interdiction agents. The webinars will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday and 10
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CLINT, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents in Clint arrested a convicted felon who is also a member of a Mexican gang. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Clint station said they encountered three people last week trying to illegally enter the United States from Mexico. The trio was found partially submerged in a canal
Continue Reading MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — Border state authorities have arrested a crusading labor lawyer who led a wave of 2019 walkouts for higher wages at border assembly plants known as maquiladoras. Detectives arrested Susana Prieto on Monday in the border city Matamoros on charges that included inciting riot, threats and coercion. Prieto taped her own detention
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Chihuahua state health officials on Friday reported the state’s highest peak of infections, and said the record number was partly to blame on the “relaxation of health measures” and “people deciding to go out.” “This (pandemic) is not over, we must become aware,” stressed Dr. Arturo Valenzuela, the northern zone medical
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Another 12 victims of the coronavirus have died in the city Juárez, Chihuahua state health officials said Thursday. That brought the death toll in Juárez from the pandemic to 306, which represents over 80% of the 378 fatalities tallied to date for all of the state. Over half of all the
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tropical Storm Cristobal made landfall in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Campeche on Wednesday, dumping heavy rain on the already soaked region ahead of an expected eventual turn toward the United States, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The Mexican army evacuated 138 people in Campeche after floodwaters threatened homes, and
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Chihuahua state health officials on Wednesday reported a dozen new deaths in the city of Juarez, accounting for 12 of the state’s additional 13 fatalities. When it comes to new infections, Juarez also accounted for 49 of the state’s 51 additional cases on Wednesday. The total number of virus cases in
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican comic Héctor Suárez, whose decades-long career celebrated the common man and satirized the rich, corrupt and arrogant, has died at 81. His son Héctor Suárez Gomís posted a statement Tuesday confirming his father’s death, though he did not specify the cause. Mexico’s Culture Department posted a statement mourning Suárez, calling
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican financial regulators said Tuesday they have frozen the bank accounts of 1,939 people and companies believed to be linked to movements of about $1.1 billion in Jalisco drug cartel money. The country’s anti-money laundering agency said it worked with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to identify the 1,770 people and
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