By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press Noelia Sanchez was born in the rolling farmlands of southwest Missouri, where her Mexican parents worked as seasonal farmworkers in the 1950s. When she was 1, Noelia and her mother, Aurora, who had no work documents, were rounded up with dozens of other immigrants in a Texas town near
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By VALERIE GONZALEZ and STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson led about 60 fellow Republicans in Congress on a visit Wednesday to the Mexican border to demand hard-line immigration policies in exchange for backing President Joe Biden’s emergency wartime funding request for Ukraine. He expressed serious doubts
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EL PASO, TX (KVIA) — Today, El Paso City Council will meet. Agenda item 26 and 27 includes a focus on the approval of the emergency ordinance regarding the migrant crisis. During the meeting they will also discuss the latest updates from December. The emergency ordinance, initially approved in 2022, must be reapproved every 30
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Originally Published: 02 JAN 24 15:35 ET Updated: 02 JAN 24 16:57 ET By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow the US Border Patrol to remove razor wire at the US-Mexico border – another escalation in the dispute between President Joe Biden and Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over border
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — On Monday, the National Institute of Migration in Mexico published a statement saying they recorded more than 40.8 million legal entries in 2023. Through its Beta Group, the institute assisted 230,877 migrants who entered the country illegally. The report also says that in coordination with national and international safety agencies, Mexico
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Originally Published: 02 JAN 24 07:00 ET By Clare Foran and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — The new year will bring new challenges for lawmakers, who must confront crises at home and abroad as the 2024 elections take center stage and threaten to deepen partisan divisions on Capitol Hill. The race for the White House
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(CNN) — Frustrated by “rogue buses” from Texas dropping off migrants by the thousands, the mayors of New York, Chicago and Denver are trying to slow the surge by requiring the bus operators to coordinate arrivals under the threat of impound, fines and even jail time. Last week, 14 busloads of migrants from Texas made their way to
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — More migrants have been arriving at the border recently, some saying they are still traveling on top of trains overnight. On Thursday, ABC-7 witnessed the arrival of hundreds of migrants to the Border Safety Initiative #36 gate, located in El Paso’s Lower Valley. The City of Juárez, through its Human Rights
Continue Reading Originally Published: 28 DEC 23 17:02 ET Updated: 28 DEC 23 17:56 ET By Priscilla Alvarez and Michael Williams, CNN Washington (CNN) — A new law that gives local law enforcement in Texas the authority to arrest migrants “violates the US Constitution,” the Department of Justice said in a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott on
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Over three million migrants are waiting on their immigration court hearings, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). That’s up 1.9 million cases in roughly one year. “Certainly increasing the number of immigration judges will help tremendously,” said Immigration Attorney and El Paso County Commissioner for Precinct 3,
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — According to a new report by the Associated Press, thousands of migrants have been arrested for trespassing since 2021. The AP reports 10,000 migrants have been arrested on misdemeanor trespassing charges under Gov. Abbott’s “arrest and jail” operation. Texas started the operation two years ago to arrest migrants for trespassing.
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — In a Thursday morning news conference, Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador explained some of the agreements he discussed with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, and White House Homeland Security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall. President López Obrador said the U.S. government agreed to open and restore
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JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Migrants continue to travel on foot just south of Ciudad Juárez, moving towards the U.S.-Mexico border. More migrants are still traveling on train, and are being dropped off in different cities across the state of Chihuahua or in other southern states in Mexico. ABC-7 made the trip to Samalayuca, Chihuahua, a
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By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — The mayors of Chicago, New York City and Denver renewed pleas Wednesday for more federal help and coordination with Texas over the growing number of asylum-seekers arriving in their cities by bus and plane. The mayors’ requests come as U.S. cities have struggled to manage the increasing
Continue Reading CNN, POOL, KABB, WOAI, CEPROPIE By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Senior US officials arrived in Mexico Wednesday to seek more help from their counterparts to drive down border crossings as President Joe Biden faces increasing pressure over the handling of the US southern border. Immigration has been a political vulnerability for Biden amid fierce criticism
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Seventeen-year-old Julián Kalel Almanzán is a Junior at Coronado High School who plays the guitar. He is putting on a benefit concert in support of migrant families that are spending time along the border during this winter season. The benefit will also provide donations for refugee migrants. ABC-7 spoke with
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A source with a group of non-governmental organizations, or NGO’s, shared a video with ABC-7 of migrants walking along a road outside, heading towards Ciudad Juarez. That source says these are not migrants who are getting rides from smugglers, rather people who have chosen to walk the trek all the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Opportunity Center for the Homeless hosted a small Christmas celebration with migrant kids, giving away toys and lunch for those in need. ABC-7 spoke with the center’s Deputy Director, John Martin, who told ABC-7 the main goal of this event. “Well, it’s Christmas Day and we feel that everybody
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The holiday season is bringing longer wait times than usual for borderland residents crossing to Juárez or El Paso every day. Usually, people tend to cross for their jobs, school or even to visit a family member on either side of the border. With the recent holiday shopping, people have been
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — On Dec. 21, the Opportunity Center for the Homeless, Centro San Vicente Family Clinic, and Emmanuel’s United Methodist Church organized this year’s “Light Up the Night” event, which sought to memorialize those in the homeless community who died this year. This was the event’s 10th anniversary. In 2023, 38 homeless
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Congressman Tony Gonzales, who represents parts of the Borderland, held a news conference in El Paso Thursday. He met with Border Patrol and U.S. CBP agents and visited one of the U.S. Customs and border protection soft-sided facilities. The congressman who represents part of El Paso held a news conference and gave
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KTVT By Nicole Chavez, Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — A new law that makes entering Texas illegally a state crime is sowing confusion and uncertainty among undocumented migrants and mixed status families along the US-Mexico border, according to immigration advocates. Many of those advocates tell CNN they fear a wave of racial profiling as well as detentions and attempted
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By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas sent a plane with more than 120 migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to Chicago in an escalation of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s busing operation that has given more than 80,000 migrants free rides to Democratic-led cities across the country since last year. The first
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Business leaders in Juárez have called on the Mexican federal government to find a different way to deal with the recent migrant surges. U.S. CBP recently decided to shut down rail crossings in El Paso and Eagle Pass. This has slowed business along the border. Several local stake holders have since
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EL PASO ,Texas (KVIA) — With many migrants making their way to the border wall, El Paso Border Patrol is attributing the number of people arriving to misinformation occurring on the Mexican side. While they don’t know if this misinformation is a misunderstanding or purposely distributed false information, Border Patrol says the entire El Paso
Continue Reading UPDATE: During the press conference Tuesday, D.A. Hicks hicks said he anticipated there being an injunction that would prevent prosecution of the cases under the new law. Still, he said he expects this case may go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. “In my mind, that is more of a political circus or more
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Trains in Juarez continue to be stuck carrying tons of cargo and merchandise south of the border. ABC-7 spoke with Jerry Pacheco, the president of the Border Industrial Association, who said this holiday season we will continue to see delayed shipments of cargo not arriving on time, which will start disrupting
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Update: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas and the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) also are also suing over SB4. The ACLU of Texas issued the following statement on the new law. “We’re suing to block one of the most extreme anti-immigrant bills in the country. The bill overrides bedrock constitutional principles and
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Originally Published: 15 NOV 23 08:44 ET Updated: 15 NOV 23 12:14 ET By Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt, CNN (CNN) — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign a bill that would make it a new state crime for entering Texas illegally and gives local law enforcement the power to arrest and
Continue Reading Originally Published: 18 DEC 23 13:17 ET By Matt Egan, CNN New York (CNN) — The rail industry is demanding the Biden administration immediately allow trains to cross the southern border with Mexico that officials shut in response to a surge in crossings by migrants. The Association of American Railroads, an industry trade group, issued
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