CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Health officials in Mexico are investigating a possible case of coronavirus in Juarez after young man returned from a trip to Italy, according to Dr. Arturo Valenzuela, medical director of the Chihuahuan Health Department in the Northern Region According to El Diario Juarez, the potential case was reported at a private
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump on Saturday said he is “thinking about” possibly closing the U.S. border with Mexico to guard against the coronavirus spreading. Trump made the comment as he provided an update on the virus after the first reported U.S. death Saturday, of a woman he described as being in her late 50s
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EL PASO, Texas — The Paso Del Norte Bridge connecting El Paso with Juarez was shut down Friday night, hours after a court ruling halted President Trump’s “remain in Mexico” program and triggered concerns about a potential huge influx of migrants assembling near the bridge on the Mexican side. But then later Friday night, that
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EL PASO, Texas — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is seizing more meth in the El Paso area compared to years past. The agency says that stopping the flow of the drug in the city is key to halting the spread nationwide. 2019 DEA data shows that agents in the western part of Texas and
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EL PASO, Texas — The coronavirus, although not physically present along the U.S.-Mexico border, is starting to affect the intricate chain that manufacturing supplies follow from China to North America according to stakeholders at the Sister Cities Summit in El Paso on Thursday. “It’s starting to show an effect on “Right on Time” deliveries, which seems
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — One Saturday morning, Liliana Muñoz Puente of Juarez was with her aunt shopping at El Paso’s Cielo Vista Walmart, buying school supplies for her son. That Saturday morning was last Aug. 3. Muñoz Puente spoke to local documentarian Charlie Minn about what she went through. She was leaving the store when she saw the shooter.
Continue Reading NEW YORK, NY — The Trump administration can withhold federal money from seven states, as well as New York City, over their cooperation on immigration enforcement, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The decision by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ruling that blocked the Justice Department from withholding a
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EL PASO, Texas — A year after asylum-seekers and other migrants overwhelmed U.S. immigration authorities at the southern border, the Border Patrol is opening a processing facility in northeast El Paso that officials say could help it better care for detainees following outcry last year over young children and adults held in squalid, crowded conditions.
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso police are searching for a man that went missing after visiting a friend in Mexico over the weekend. Police said 53-year-old Matias Barraza was last seen when he visited a friend in Mexico on Saturday. Barraza didn’t return from the visit and hasn’t been seen since, authorities indicated. He
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday that the parents of a Juarez youth who was shot to death in Mexico by a U.S. Border Patrol agent standing on American soil cannot try to sue the agent in U.S. courts for damages. The ruling is a win for the agent and the United
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EL PASO, Texas — The landscape of American immigration changes dramatically this week with the controversial “public charge rule” officially going into effect. Immigration officials say that the new rule allows the government more authority to deny green cards to legal immigrants who use or are deemed likely to use Medicaid or similar programs. Immigrant
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — As many as five people were killed and a police officer injured in a fierce gun battle between authorities and drug gang members in southern Juárez, according to TV Azteca Noticias and other Mexican media outlets which posted online videos of the shootout. It happened off Casas Grandes Highway in a
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EL PASO, Texas — Greyhound, the nation’s largest bus company, said Friday it will stop allowing Border Patrol agents without a warrant to board its buses to conduct routine immigration checks. It’s a decision supported by those traveling through El Paso on Friday night. “I think it’s great. ‘Why?’ Because you have a lot of
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EL PASO, Texas — The former El Paso U.S. Marshal said Friday that a Drug Enforcement Administration plan to fight a meth uptick in key U.S. cities like El Paso is needed. “I think that is what it takes is law enforcement being proactive and going after the cartels, going after the drugs that are coming
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EL PASO, Texas — The U.S. Census Bureau is leading efforts to make sure El Paso’s immigrant populations is properly counted in 2020 after worries a now-defunct citizenship question would scare people away from the survey. The 2020 census is starting in March and is used to determine how much federal funds El Paso gets
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EL PASO, Texas — Federal authorities are targeting methamphetamine “transportation hubs” around the country in an effort to block the distribution of the highly addictive drug, officials announced Thursday. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon announced the launch of Operation Crystal Shield. El Paso is one of eight cities the agency has identified
Continue Reading SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — Cleveland Browns player Gregory Robinson was arrested and jailed in El Paso after U.S. Border Patrol agents found 157 pounds of marijuana in a car at a checkpoint, officials said Thursday. Robinson, 27, and Jaquan Bray, 26, were charged in a federal complaint with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute
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AUSTIN, Texas — A narrow majority of Texas voters said the state should accept refugees from other countries who have gone through a security clearance process, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. At the same time, 38% of the state’s voters said the U.S. allows too many people to immigrate into the
Continue Reading A federal judge in Arizona ruled Wednesday that conditions in US Customs and Border Protection migrant holding cells in the agency’s Tucson sector violated the Constitution. US District Judge David C. Bury’s order bars the agency from holding migrants for more than 48 hours in the Tucson sector after they’ve been processed “unless and until
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EL PASO, Texas — Filmmaker Charlie Minn takes us to Tijuana, Mexico in his new movie “7 Murders a Day.” The film explores the explosion of drug cartel violence that overtook the city and the innocent lives caught in the middle. He also looks at the similarities between the cartel violence in Tijuana and Juarez.
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WASHINGTON, DC — Federal agents who patrol the U.S. border will deploy to “sanctuary” cities across the country where local jurisdictions are hindering stepped up immigration enforcement, officials said late Friday. The deployment of Customs and Border Patrol agents, some with tactical training, to the interior of the country is unusual and represents another escalation
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California woman says the father and son leaders of a Mexican megachurch sexually abused her for 18 years starting when she was 12, manipulating Bible passages to convince her the mistreatment actually was a gift from God, according to a federal lawsuit. Sochil Martin, 33, said she was “groomed”
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EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers said they made a pair of “huge” seizures Wednesday night involving liquid meth and a cache of gun ammunition at the El Paso ports of entry. The meth seizure happened at the Ysleta port cargo facility, where 32 bottles of it in liquid form –
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WASHINGTON, DC — The Pentagon on Thursday slashed billions of dollars in funding for 17 Navy and Air Force aircraft and other military programs to free up money for the construction of President Donald Trump’s long-sought U.S.-Mexico border wall, angering not just Democrats but also GOP defense hawks. Defense Secretary Mark Esper approved the $3.8
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EL PASO, Texas — A video circulating on social media shows U.S. Border Patrol agents using a “taser” to shock and subdue a man they say was a suspected human smuggler, but some allege it’s just the latest example of the agency’s use of excessive force when it comes to stun guns. The incident took
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Customs and Border Protection’s mission is to keep the country safe, and the agency is focusing more and more on stopping counterfeit items from making their way into the U.S. “Some of them are so close you wouldn’t know by the naked eye,” El Paso Port Director Beverly Good said.
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — The Defense Department, under White House pressure, is expected to announce this week that billions more in Pentagon funds will go toward the border wall, according to an administration official. A senior Defense official also told CNN that a major announcement about the border will made this week. While the White House
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EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in El Paso made five separate drug seizures in a single-day, setting a new record, officials said Friday. CBP officers seized nearly 223 pounds of cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana at two El Paso ports of entry on Thursday night. In addition to the drug caches,
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EL PASO, Texas – Last week, people across the public, private and academic sectors from Mexico and El Paso met with leaders in Mexico City to discuss matters of bi-national relevance, such as economic development, tourism, and migration in the border region. The delegation, organized by the General Consul of Mexico in El Paso, Mauricio
Continue Reading A 32-year-old US citizen arrested by Border Patrol agents died in custody in Texas on Tuesday, according to a Customs and Border Protection statement. The man was identified as James Paul Markowitz, according to a statement released late Wednesday. The statement says Markowitz was arrested around 3 p.m. Tuesday as a suspect in an “alien
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