WASHINGTON (KVIA) — Tuesday, the U.S. announced a second charter flight to Venezuela to deport undocumented migrants from the country, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The flight’s facilitation was led by U.S. DHS, with support from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. DHS said it has deported
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EL PASO, TEXAS — Two men are accused of shooting at a group of migrants who had stopped to get a drink of water, killing one and wounding another, according to investigators. The shooting happened on Sept. 27, 2022, near Sierra Blanca, Texas. Michael and Mark Sheppard, both 61, are out on a $500,000 dollar bond each,
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Migrant numbers on the border continue to go down, according to Juarez authorities. Juarez continues to see a decrease in migrants after they were not allowed to travel on trains to the border. The Mexican president has now confirmed the number of migrants that arrive at both Mexico’s southern and northern border. Juarez mayor Cruz Pérez Cuéllar said
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The increase in migrant activity led to Texas Governor Greg Abbott initiating Operation Lone Star, which prompted more Department Of Public Safety troopers in the Borderland. DPS has a broad pursuit policy, pursuits that many times end in car crashes and rollovers highlighted in the ABC-7 special report, Smuggler’s Pursuit.
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The commissioner of the National Institute of Migration, Francisco Garduño, visited Chihuahua’s capital city on Wednesday. In a brief encounter with local media, he mentioned that in the few last weeks, migratory flow has decreased through both Chihuahua and Juarez. According to Garduño, around 5,000 migrants are currently entering Mexico through
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By VALERIE GONZALEZ and REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press MAIQUETIA, Venezuela (AP) — Deportation flights of Venezuelans from the U.S. resumed Wednesday with a first plane of more than a hundred migrants landing back in their economically troubled country under the Biden administration’s latest attempts to deal with swelling numbers of asylum-seekers. This is the
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SANTA TERESA, New Mexico (KVIA) — CBP officials are announcing the death of a Guatemalan woman found unconscious in the Santa Teresa desert this August. Officials say that during a traffic stop the evening of August 20, 2023, Border Patrol Tactical Unit agents learned from migrants inside the stopped car that their group had abandoned
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — After a month of long lines and wait times at Borderland commercial ports of entry, cargo transportation is seeing a decrease in the length of wait times and inspections. On Tuesday, as truck drivers crossing into the U.S. were mentioning the situation from inside their cabs, they didn’t see Texas Department
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ICE deported a Mexican national arrested in New Mexico for the 2019 killing of nine American citizens in Sonora. ICE turned 24-year-old Gustavo Ivan Hernandez-Cabral over to authorities in Mexico after crossing a port of entry in Downtown El Paso this week. Hernandez-Cabral, who is wanted in Mexico for organized
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Texas National Guard working in the El Paso sector has reinforced the area close to the state line with New Mexico with 18 more miles of concertina wire. Last Wednesday, KVIA reached out to the Texas Military Department after noticing guard members doing work along the Rio Grande in
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The city of El Paso has seen a decrease in migrant numbers lately. This comes after weeks of a continuous migrant influx on the border. El Paso is seeing migrant numbers decrease due to policy changes at the federal level. “Policy has changed. and so whenever we see any kind of
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Texas Governor Greg Abbott began cracking down on migrant crossings, illegal or otherwise, by initiating Operation Lone Star, increasing the number of Department of Public Safety Troopers in the Borderland. Those Troopers operate under a broad-ranging pursuit policy. Since the start of Operation Lone Star, the Borderland seen a rise of DPS pursuits.
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By REBECCA SANTANA and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — The federal government would be barred from immigration policies that separate parents from children for eight years under a proposed court settlement announced Monday that also provides families that were split under the Trump administration with temporary legal status and short-term housing aid.
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — A group of four Mexican senators visited the Borderland on Friday to follow up with the fire that killed 40 migrants in a fire at the National Institute of Migration in March. They also spoke about the current migrant situation. Officials shared with the embarrassment how they felt about the outcome
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Defense officials say an armed forces helicopter has crashed in the northern Mexico state of Durango, killing three military personnel. The Defense Department said Friday the crash happened Thursday as the helicopter was flying to a base in the township of Canelas. The crash killed all three crew members aboard. The
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Texas DPS officials say that two Venezuelan migrants are facing assault charges after they rushed at and pushed a National Guard soldier. The alleged assault happened October 11, 2023, just before 10:30 a.m. at Gate 36 along the border barrier. Officials say 38-year-old Karla Dividay Matar Jaimes rushed at the
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By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press NECOCLI, Colombia (AP) — In Necocli, Colombia, the local economy has shifted, revolving around the migrants who have been arriving for several years. Those hanging around no longer number in the thousands, as in 2021 after Haiti’s earthquake. Now there are just dozens who wait in Necocli each day, most
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By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is supporting the city’s effort to suspend a unique legal agreement that requires it to provide emergency housing to homeless people, as a large influx of migrants overwhelms the city’s shelter system. Hochul endorsed the city’s challenge to the requirement in
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ByThe Associated Press October 10, 2023, 9:47 PM MEXICO CITY — Two Guatemalan migrants were killed and three others — along with a Honduran man — were wounded in a shooting in northern Mexico near the U.S. border that apparently involved Mexican army soldiers. Prosecutors in the northern state of Chihuahua said the army has turned over four
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Three weeks ago, border officials shut down cargo entries into the U.S. at the Bridge of the Americas. Those cargo entries restarted this week. In a morning news conference in Juarez, the Mayor, business executives, and cargo leaders in Juarez said more than 20,000 trucks became stuck during the shutdown. Manuel
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A Michigan man now faces human smuggling charges after he was arrest in El Paso Sunday. Javier Pena is charged with smuggling of persons: fleeing and evading arrest detention w/ vehicle or watercraft. Pena is being held on bonds totaling $45,000. ABC-7 spoke with Robert Almonte, a former U.S. Marshall and
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UPDATE: El Paso City Council voted unanimously Tuesday afternoon to extend two Emergency Ordinances in relation to the migrant crisis experiences by the city. Mayor Oscar Leeser said said during the discussion that the migrant numbers have dropped by 1000 people per day. “We’re still in a crisis. And even though we may be in
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Tuesday that he rejected a U.S. request to set up migrant transit centers in Mexico. Neighboring Guatemala has set up one such center, where migrants can apply for U.S. work and refugee visas. But President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has so far rejected a U.S. request to set
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The new migrant shelter in Juarez coordinated by the National Institute of Migration (INM) and the City of Juarez is set to be finished today and will start hosting only migrant families. In a morning news conference, the Juarez Director of Human Rights, Santiago González, mentioned this shelter will give migrants
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EL PASO, TX (KVIA) — Customs and Border Protection will resume cargo processing at Bridge of the Americas. This is after a three week suspension that began on September 18 due to the migrant surge. Bridge of the Americas cargo will be open from 6 a.m. until 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. In a statement
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The City of Juarez will open a new shelter for migrants that arrive by train to alleviate the surge the Borderland is currently seeing. Thousands of migrants have been arriving in Juarez recently, and now the City of Juarez, along with Mexico’s National Institute of Migration, is installing this new “camp”
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Monday he is going to send a diplomatic note to the United States to protest Texas truck inspections that have caused major delays at border crossings. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador claimed Monday that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to enforce additional truck inspections was “very irresponsible” and
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Migrant releases into El Paso by Customs and Border Protection have gone down over the last week, according to the city’s Migrant Situational Awareness Dashboard. The dashboard shows that, as of Sunday evening, almost 7,900 migrants were released into El Paso by CBP in the 40th week of 2023, compared
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Thousands of migrants have arrived in Juarez and the border this week by train. For authorities in Juarez, the manner in which the migrants are arriving is causing issues. Officials with FERROMEX have agreed to work with federal authorities to prevent migrants from traveling on trains for their own safety, but
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Biden Administration announced Thursday that some Venezuelan migrants will be deported back to their country. The U.S. will resume repatriation flights for Venezuelans who crossed the border unlawfully and who do not have a legal basis to remain in the country. The announcement was made after Venezuelan authorities accepted
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