EL PASO, Texas — The Paso Del Norte Port of Entry was closed crossing into Mexico for a portion of Sunday after a high-speed chase ended with a car crashing into a Customs and Border Protection booth. The driver of that car, 21-year-old Alexis Fernando Ordaz of Socorro, was arrested and being held by Homeland
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MONTANA VISTA, Texas — A large migrant shelter facility for children is being built on 25 acres in the Montana Vista area in El Paso County, according to County Judge Ricardo Samaniego. Construction has already started on private property in the 4300 block of Oleary. It is being built and operated by Calibrun International, a
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EL PASO, Texas — According to the experts, acts of cartel violence are on the rise. This past week, 14 Americans with dual citizenship were ambushed, leaving 9 dead and the vehicles they rode in riddled with bullet holes and torched. The latest act of violence happened in Juarez when as many as ten buses
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Violence has surged in Juarez this week, with Juarez media reporting 21 people have been killed and 23 vehicles burned since Tuesday. Juarez government officials credit the violence to a planned prison search where law enforcement hoped to search for smuggled drugs and weapons. That search did occur Wednesday morning, but
Continue Reading CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – A “night of terror” blamed on the ‘Mexicles’ drug gang left at least 9 dead and others wounded as numerous vehicles were set afire and/or sprayed with bullets late Tuesday and early Wednesday, Mexican media outlets reported. Four ‘Mexicles’ gang members were arrested by municipal police for their roles in the
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican families camped out at the base of the Paso del Norte Bridge after fleeing their homes from drug cartel violence say the president of Mexico should’ve accepted President Trump’s recent offer to help wage war against the cartels. “This is a Mexican problem. I’m glad we made the offer, but
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Two murder suspects who escaped from a Northern California jail by cutting a hole in a ceiling over the weekend were captured as they tried to cross from Mexico back over the US border, authorities said Wednesday. Santos Samuel Fonseca, 21, and Jonathan Salazar, 20, were arrested by US Customs and Border Protection at around
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EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has a very special Border Patrol agent to help with community outreach. Agent S.A.N.T.O.S. (Say No To Strangers) and his human assistants go to local schools to teach children about stranger danger, anti-bullying and seat belt safety. If you would like Agent S.A.N.T.O.S to visit your
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EL PASO, Texas — Concerns are reaching to the highest government levels in the U.S and Mexico to have a critical issue fixed to prevent a possible disaster. Right now, Verizon is experiencing problems, but other cell phone carriers, like AT&T, could also be affected. In a letter, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wrote on
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man during a shootout in Sunland Park on Monday morning following word of a potential illegal border crossing by a small group. It happened about 6 a.m. in the 1200 block of McNutt Road. Authorities blocked off the shooting scene, closing
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EL PASO, Texas — An annual tradition on the U.S./Mexico border. The message uniting communities, not dividing them. Spiritual leaders from across the borderland coming together on the Rio Grande for an annual border mass. “What we’re celebrating is the fact that even though a border may be necessary reality in the world,” said El
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Smuggling gangs in Mexico have been able to breach new sections of President Donald Trump’s border wall in recent months, according to a new report from The Washington Post. Citing US agents and officials with knowledge of the damage, the Post reported that smugglers have been using reciprocating saws to cut through the steel and
Continue Reading President Donald Trump appeared Friday to name Chad Wolf, an official at the Department of Homeland Security, as the agency’s acting secretary, three weeks after Kevin McAleenan submitted his resignation to the White House. Speaking to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, Trump was asked about the vacancy. “Is Chad Wolf going
Continue Reading CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — As temperatures keep dropping, a new concern is rising: how to keep Mexican migrants safe from the cold. There are around 600 Mexican migrants camping on the Mexican side of the Paso del Norte port of entry. Across the three bridges, it’s 3,000 people in total. Tents and tarps are what
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Authorities in Las Cruces continued the search Wednesday for two brothers believed to have been taken from daycare by their convicted sex offender father, who may have hid the boys in Juarez. After issuing a public plea for help Tuesday evening in locating the boys, a day later police said
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The video begins with the sound of a guitar strumming and a voice singing in Spanish. The main character is sketched quickly, beginning with her eyes, then face, hair and shoulders. She gazes into the distance. Over the course of the three-minute stop-motion drawing animation video, we watch as the main character goes about her
Continue Reading Immigration hardliner Julie Kirchner, Department of Homeland Security citizenship and immigration ombudsman, offered her resignation to President Donald Trump this week, according to a letter from acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan sent on Monday. Kirchner, who has led the ombudsman office for the past two years, was previously the executive director of the Federation for American
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SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — A regional water shortage blamed on the depletion of area tanks has resulted in water restrictions being imposed at the West Texas Detention Facility that houses immigration detainees, officials told ABC-7 on Sunday. The Sierra Blanca facility, operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is now shutting down its water supply at
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EL PASO, Texas — The Border Network for Human Rights held their annual “Hugs Not Walls” event in the middle of the Rio Grande on the U.S./Mexico border on Saturday. 300 families came together to embrace each other for the first time in years. The event was postponed back in May, a first for the immigration
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ROCKY POINT, Mexico — Volunteer searchers say they have found more than three dozen bodies over the past three days in the desert near the Mexican resort of Puerto Penasco. Prosecutors in the northern border state of Sonora said late Friday that at least two of the bodies may be women. Tests are being conducted
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SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — Border Patrol agents said Friday they found 13 smuggled migrants in the cramped confines of a sleeper cabin of a tractor-trailer that was inspected at the Sierra Blanca checkpoint earlier this week. Officials said the decision to inspect the truck, which led to the discovery of the migrants, occurred after a
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VAN HORN, Texas — A driver who ran the Border Patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca led authorities on a chase Wednesday night through two counties that ended in a crash along Interstate 10 near Van Horn. Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West described the pursuit to ABC-7 as “one hell of a chase.” The man authorities
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – A 3-year-old boy was caught in the crossfire and seriously wounded when two armed men opened fire at a funeral in Juarez, Mexican media outlets reported Saturday. The violence occurred Friday night in the Industrial Colony neighborhood at a wake attended by approximately 30 people. Police arrested two men they said were responsible for
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EL PASO, Texas – A U.S. Border Patrol raid in El Paso’s historic Segundo Barrio neighborhood on the city’s south side late Friday night resulted in 21 migrants being taken into custody, officials told ABC-7. Authorities said the migrants were believed to have entered through a storm drain system near Bowie Bakery in the 900 block
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A 3-year-old boy was caught in the crossfire and seriously wounded when two armed men opened fire at a funeral in Juarez, Mexican media outlets reported Saturday. The violence occurred Friday night in the Industrial Colony neighborhood at a wake attended by approximately 30 people. Police arrested two men they said were responsible for the
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A U.S. Border Patrol raid in El Paso’s historic Segundo Barrio neighborhood on the city’s south side late Friday night resulted in 21 migrants being taken into custody, officials told ABC-7. Authorities said the migrants were believed to have entered through a storm drain system near Bowie Bakery in the 900 block of S. Park
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U.S. Border Patrol agents in Alamogordo seized over $850,000 worth of methamphetamine from one vehicle at a checkpoint earlier this week, officials said Friday. Border agents were conducting a routine check on Wednesday night when they stopped a gray Saturn Vue for further inspection. Agents interviewed the driver, who later consented to a vehicle search.
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Mexican security forces aborted their capture of a son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman after finding themselves outgunned in a ferocious shootout with cartel henchmen that left at least eight people dead and more than 20 wounded, authorities said Friday. The gunbattle Thursday paralyzed the capital of Mexico’s Sinaloa state, Culiacan, and
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The eldest son of “El Chapo,” the jailed notorious Mexican drug kingpin, was captured by Mexico’s military on Thursday, but then was released hours later after massive gun battles raged with the Sinaloa cartel on the streets of the northern Mexican city of Culiacan. Security Minister Alfonso Durazo told Reuters that Ovidio Guzmán López was
Continue Reading U.S. Border Patrol agents followed a 10-year-old immigrant with cerebral palsy to a Texas hospital and took her into custody after the surgery. She had been brought to the U.S. from Mexico when she was a toddler. In another case, an armed Border Patrol agent roamed the hallways of an emergency room in Florida, stepping
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