Editor’s note: This story was co-published with Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom, convener and funder dedicated to high-quality, fact-based news and information from the U.S.-Mexico border. Words by Alfredo Corchado, Anglea Kocherga, Gaige Davila and Aline Corpus Simerman Edited by Dianne Solis Images by Omar Ornelas, Gaige Davila, Angela Kocherga CIUDAD JUÁREZ –
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ABC-7 spotted crews upgrading and installing C-wire, as well as adding “advanced technology,” to the border wall today. Our crews saw the installation happening along the Border Highway near Yarbrough. A spokesperson for Border Patrol confirmed the installation. Read the full statement below. “The El Paso Sector Border Patrol remains
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Originally Published: 19 FEB 25 14:32 ET Updated: 19 FEB 25 17:33 ET By Lauren Mascarenhas, Ed Lavandera and Ashley Killough, CNN Editor’s note: Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. Call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. (CNN) — A young
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Migrant encounters and apprehensions on the Southwest border decreased in January compared to December 2024, this is according to the White House and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). According to newly released data from the CBP Southwest Land Border Encounters by Month dashboard, a total of 61,465 undocumented migrants were
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Officials extradited Ciudad Juarez native Osvaldo Coronel-Fernandez, also known as “Omero,”from Mexico City to El Paso on multiple criminal charges. Officials allege that Omero was involved in human smuggling operations from July 2015 to August 2016. A grand jury in El Paso indicted Omero on federal charges of aiding and
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CIUDAD MEXICO (KVIA) — The Mexican Senate announced that it is authorizing U.S. military personnel to train Mexican military units starting today. The training is expected to last through March 28. Last week, 107 members of the Mexican Senate voted in favor of allowing 10 members of the U.S. Army to enter Mexico to perform
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA)—The El Paso—Ciudad Juárez border area has seen a decrease in migrant encounters since the summer of 2024. According to U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector, the border has been seeing an average of 85 daily migrant encounters recently. This Fiscal Year 2025 started in October and Border Patrol has recorded 29,114 encounters
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by Cindy Ramirez February 16, 2025 The sun had not begun to peek over the horizon in south Las Cruces when a pair of siblings headed to work at a flower farm to prepare soil for planting and pack plants for shipping. That Monday, Jan. 27, was like any other work day: Pedro, 18, and his
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office announced the arrest of the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel in Ciudad Juárez this week. Law enforcement officers who were part of a joint operation between the prosecutor’s Office of Strategic Operations and the National Guard arrested Humberto Rivera Rivera, also known as “El Chato,” “El
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Salvadoran national Erika Jasmin Lobato-Melendez, 27, received a 12 month and one day prison sentence for biting a Border Patrol agent. Courtesy: Dona Ana County Detention Facility Prosecutors say agents found Lobato-Melendez and four others walking along the border wall on May 29, 2024. They tried to take the group
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SANTA TERESA, New Mexico (KVIA) — Today, federal prosecutors announced charges for Samuel Mendoza-Torres, 29, who is accused of attempting to bribe a Border Patrol agent after he was picked up for alleged illegal re-entry into the U.S. Court records claim that on February 8, 2025, agents took Mendoza-Torres and another person into custody near
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Update (10:45 PM): U.S. Magistrate Judge Miguel A. Torres of the Western District of Texas granted the government’s motion to detain former CBP Officer Manuel Perez Jr. ABC-7 has a crew in the courtroom for the hearing this morning. If convicted, Perez Jr. could spend from 10 years to life in prison for the drug
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Federal authorities arrested four people accused of harboring migrants at two El Paso hotels. Border Patrol agents were surveilling an El Paso motel when they spotted Yair Alejandro Aguilar-Flores, Angel Eduardo Carrillo-Carrillo, and Jorge Alfredo Lopez-Acevedo “cautiously departing from one of the motel rooms.” They found that all three men
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — U.S. federal agencies continue to enforce national security, starting with border security in sectors like El Paso. Border Patrol in the El Paso Sector says that national security cannot exist without border security and the community’s effort. This week, a video surfacing on social media showed Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVIA) — White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that two planes flew 190 Venezuelan migrants back to their country from Fort Bliss this week. “Just this week, two planes with 190 Venezuelan illegal aliens arrived in the Venezuelan capital from Fort Bliss, Texas,” Leavitt explained during today’s White House news briefing. Last
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By Stephon Dingle Click here for updates on this story BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A Baltimore County teacher is on administrative leave after allegedly posting controversial tweets on social media threatening to expose his students who attended an immigration justice rally. Advocates are calling on the school district to do more to protect its students and
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Local News 8 spoke with an Idaho Falls immigration expert, who wants to remain anonymous, about the deportations. The expert said he consults migrants on immigration rights.
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Law enforcement officials arrested Jose Garcia Tiro, who federal prosecutors say has a previous conviction for sexual assault of a child, in El Paso for alleged illegal re-entry into the United States. Court documents state that Garcia Tiro was previously “removed from the country to Mexico on April 23, 2015.”
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Mexico Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard spoke on the 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Mexico saying “is not justified” because the U.S. exports more into Mexico than Mexican imports into the U.S. “Mexico imports more steel from the United States than it exports,” Ebrard said during a news conference
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By Avery Schmitz, Katie Bo Lillis, Priscilla Alvarez and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — The US military has significantly increased its surveillance of Mexican drug cartels over the past two weeks, with sophisticated spy planes flying at least 18 missions over the southwestern US and in international airspace around the Baja peninsula, according to open-source
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A Customs and Border Protection officer has been arrested in El Paso on alien smuggling and drug trafficking charges. Manuel Perez Jr. was charged related to his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to smuggle undocumented noncitizens for financial gain and alleged drug trafficking activity. Federal prosecutors say Perez Jr. allegedly
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The Mexican National Guard has set up a checkpoint at the Paso del Norte Bridge, Bridge of the Americas, and Stanton Bridge. KVIA An ABC-7 crew saw the troops stop and check people in a seemingly random manner. Some drivers are subject to a secondary complete vehicle inspection. Recently, Presidents Trump
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — U.S. Border Patrol says they took down a human smuggling operation at a hotel in El Paso. The Border Patrol chief posted a photo on X. The chief says agents arrested eight undocumented migrants and four smugglers. Officials say the migrants are from Mexico, Ecuador, and Guatemala. The chief says
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Walter N. Slosar was named Interim Chief Patrol Agent for the U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector. He assumed the role February 2, 2025. Slosar graduated from the U.S. Border Patrol Academy in 1998 and his first assignment was at the Santa Teresa Station, officials say. Through his career Slosar
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Law Offices of Cesar Ornelas offers a variety of services, including citizenship classes, know your rights presentations, and legal consultation, all at no cost. Citizenship classes are offered every Friday at 10 am and 6 pm, located at 6044 Gateway East Blvd. Suite 200 El Paso, TX 79915. Immigration
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Monday the deployment of 10,000 Mexican National Guard soldiers to the U.S. – Mexico border as part of an agreement she had with President Donald Trump to pause 25% tariffs for a month. According to the Mexican Federal Government, 2,620 soldiers will be deployed to Chihuahua
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Mexican authorities of all three levels of government along reported U.S. officials were at “los hoyos” in the Chamizal area this morning checking for another cross-border smuggling tunnel on the border. This comes after binational authorities and agencies checked another possible tunnel yesterday by the same area close to the Stanton
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By Matthew Choi, The Texas Tribune Feb. 5, 2025 “Abbott meeting with Trump at White House to discuss border issues” 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
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EL PASO (KVIA) — President Trump’s Border Czar, Tom Homan, sat down with ABC-7’s Paul Cicala for an exclusive, 1-on-1 interview, after he spent two days in the El Paso-area visiting troops at Fort Bliss and Federal Agents along the border. Here’s more from his 1-on-1 interview: (Paul Cicala) -What was it like for you
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ICE officials posted a video o X this afternoon showing officers arresting a migrant at a worksite in El Paso. ICE officers arrest a criminal alien yesterday during routine enforcement operations at a worksite in El Paso, Texas. pic.twitter.com/1VUHgzpyYg— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) February 4, 2025 The video
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