Originally Published: 06 MAR 25 10:16 ET Updated: 06 MAR 25 11:51 ET By David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a nearly one-month tariff delay on all products from Mexico that are covered by the USMCA free trade treaty, a significant walkback of the administration’s signature economic plan that has
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — According to the Wall Street Journal, defense officials are saying deportation flights using military aircraft have been suspended. The Trump administration has been using those planes to fly migrants who entered the U.S. illegally, to Guantanamo Bay and other countries. President Trump has made a crackdown on illegal immigration a focus for his second term. The Journal reports that using
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — During a news conference in Juárez today, the National Association of Importers and Exporters of the Mexican Republic (ANIERM) held a news conference to detail the impact after the first day of President Trump’s imposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada. The Chihuahua state delegate of ANIERM, Marcelo Vázquez, said over $100
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Officials arrested Mexican national Jaime Perez Salinas in El Paso after they found him without immigration documents. Officials say that he’d been removed twice before, most recently in late December 2024. He was convicted in 2018 and sentenced to five years in prison for distributing 50 grams or more of
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Officials arrested Peruvian national Joel Edgardo Flores-Reyes near El Paso for allegedly illegally re-entering the U.S. Officials say they caught Flores-Reyes crossing over one mile west of the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry without documents. Officials say Flores-Reyes has been removed from the U.S. two times previously, most recently
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke on the now imposed 25% tariffs on all goods exported from Mexico to the U.S., saying President Trump’s decision was unilateral and rejected that Mexico has failed in combating drug trafficking and illegal immigration. “While President Trump gave both Canada and Mexico ample opportunity to curb
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — President Trump confirmed today that he will impose 25% tariffs on imported goods from Canada and Mexico starting on Tuesday. This comes a month after those same tariffs were delayed by President Trump as well, to check the work both countries are doing to stop illegal immigration and drug trafficking
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Officials arrested Venezuelan national Alcides Jose Urrivari-Arape for alleged fraud and misuse of visas, permits, and other documents. Court documents state that El Paso Sheriff deputies pulled Urrivari-Arape over on February 24 and he showed fake documents. He later reportedly admitted to paying $690 for the false documents. If convicted,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told top Mexican officials that if they do not “deal with” government and cartel collusion, he would direct the U.S. military to “take unilateral action.” The Journal reports that Hegseth said this in a January 31st call with leaders
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Mexican members of the safety cabinet held a news conference today to speak about the 29 cartel members’ extraditions from Mexico to the U.S. on Thursday, saying some will face justice between 11 and 40 years later. Mexico’s Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch, Mexico’s Attorney General Alejandro
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By Alejandro Serrano, The Texas Tribune Feb. 27, 2025 “Trump administration removes five immigration judges in Texas, union says” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Ciudad Juárez no longer ranks in the top ten of the list of most-violent cities in the world. The list, put together by a Mexican public safety think tank and various civic groups, is released yearly. A year ago, Juarez ranked tenth on the list. Now, the city ranks thirteenth. Also,
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Watch the ceremony below: EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector is holding a ceremony for the deputization of the Texas National Guard in El Paso Sector today. The National Guard will have a new role in immigration here, enforcing Title 8 immigration apprehension. “This ceremony marks a pivotal moment in
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Officials extradited a high-ranking Sinaloa Cartel member from Mexico to El Paso after he was indicted for alleged racketeering, narcotics, money laundering, firearms, and criminal enterprise offenses. Prosecutors say that 40-year-old Daniel Franco Lopez, aka “Micha,” “Neon,” and “Fer,” allegedly organized hundreds of kilograms of cocaine and marijuana to be
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — CBP officers arrested Jamaican national Dwight Donovan Moulton, 43, at the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry in El Paso. Moulton, who officials say had previously been removed from the U.S. in 2005 and had previously been charged with felony firearm and drug charges, was charged with illegal re-entry after
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BROWNSVILLE, Texas (KVIA) — The Texas Agriculture Department says that a Texas rancher was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) near Brownsville. STATEMENT: A tragic and alarming incident occurred near Brownsville, Texas, where a U.S. citizen and Texas rancher was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) #TexasAgricultureMatters READ HERE: https://t.co/1VdIW1mYcD pic.twitter.com/dt1vKfgaMa— Texas Agriculture
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A Mexican man was sentenced in an El Paso federal court to 46 months in prison for three counts of assault on a federal officer. The U.S. Attorney’s Office sent a release saying, Carlos Ernesto Guerrero-Gutierrez was being detained in a pod of 20 individuals at an El Paso processing
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UPDATE (02/26/2025): Former U.S. Marshal and retired Deputy Chief for the El Paso Police Department Robert Almonte oversaw the security issues regarding the trial of the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juárez murders in 2010. As a former U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Texas, Almonte was assigned to this case to check the prisoner
Continue Reading LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — A grand jury in Las Cruces just indicted fourteen people accused of conspiracy to transport, harbor, and bring in migrants illegally into the country. Officials arrested eight of the fourteen accused late last week. Prosecutors list the accused as follows: Michelle Martinez, 29, of El Paso, Texas; Jesus Calvillo,
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) – Hundreds of local teachers in Juárez protested this morning outside the Chihuahua state government offices near the Bridge of the Américas. Some local schools with basic education levels had to cancel classes due to the protest; other teachers protested outside their respective schools. Protests have been happening across Mexico due to
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Update (February 24, 2025): Las Cruces Public Schools officials released the following statement regarding the incident: “Las Cruces Public Schools (LCPS) administration is learning more about an incident involving a group of students traveling to a state competition on Feb. 21. The students, who were on a chartered bus not visibly marked as belonging to
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)– Saturday Congresswoman Veronica Escobar held a news conference expressing how she believes the Trump administration will make it hard to recruit people for the military. Escobar says, post-Covid there were major challenges in recruitment for the U.S. military, and recent decisions by the White House, such as the firing of the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A member of La Empresa was sentenced in El Paso to nearly 20 years in federal prison. Luis Edward Castro, 28, worked for the transnational criminal organization, officials say. According to court documents, in August 2023, Castro forcefully kidnapped a man at gunpoint from his motel room in Juarez. He
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Update (February 21, 2025): Estrella del Paso says services are being resumed. Officials with the organization released the following statement: “We are back! Today, Estrella del Paso received notice from the Department the Interior that we can immediately resume work providing representation and legal access services to unaccompanied children. We are grateful for the tremendous
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — CBP agriculture specialists in the El Paso area have penalized 16 people for attempting to smuggle eggs into the country. “Travelers need to be aware that raw egg imports from Mexico are prohibited,” a CBP official explained. “Since January area CBP officers have encountered more than 90 people attempting to
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FORT BLISS, Texas (KVIA) — The New York Times is reporting that the Trump administration is developing a “deportation hub” at Fort Bliss. The Times is reporting the hub would be able to hold 10,000 undocumented migrants eventually. At the hub, migrants would go through the deportation process, before being removed from the country. The
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UPDATE (6:15 P.M.): ABC News reported that President Donald Trump fired Gen. Charles Q. Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Friday night and plans to replace him with Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine. “I want to thank General Charles “CQ” Brown for his over 40 years of service to our
Continue Reading SANTA TERESA, New Mexico (KVIA) — Last night, a binational enforcement operation took down a cartel-linked human smuggling operation between Anapra and Santa Teresa. A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney for the Western District’s Office made the announcement this afternoon. The operation involved the U.S. Department of Justice and the Mexico Attorney General’s Office. ICE
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SOCORRO, Texas (KVIA) — Texas DPS, through Operation Lone Star, arrested Carlos Daniel Espinoza-Arguello, 26, in Socorro after a traffic stop on February 11, 2025. “Espinoza-Arguello was found to have a removal order from U.S. Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and was a subject of interest in a DPS Criminal Investigations Division (CID) case for
Continue Reading JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The U.S. Department of State announced the designation of seven Mexican cartels and a Venezuelan criminal group as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), according to a release. President Trump signed this Executive Order that cartels and other transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) “threaten the safety of the
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