EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Texas Military Department announced the arrival of more personnel and equipment to the southern border in response to the latest migrant surge. In a statement the department sent out Thursday, officials explained that “the Texas C-130J cargo aircraft will expedite movements to ensure rapid support as Operation Lone Star increases the
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by Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, El Paso MattersSeptember 21, 2023 Migrants who’ve risked their lives traversing through dangerous jungle and hitching rides on top of cargo trains to Ciudad Juárez are lining up daily along the border wall to present themselves to U.S. Border Patrol – and get the chance at a new life in the United
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by Cindy Ramirez, El Paso MattersSeptember 21, 2023 Just under half a million Venezuelans – many who arrived in the U.S. through the Ciudad Juárez-El Paso border – will be allowed to remain in the country and work legally for 18 months. The Biden administration announced the extension and redesignation of Temporary Protected Status for
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — A Las Cruces shelter that provides services for refugees and asylum seekers has been operating at capacity for the better part of two months, which is about 250 people per day. Kyle Boyd, Director of Operations for Border Servant Corps, told ABC-7 that in a typical year, migration decreases
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by Claudia Lorena Silva, El Paso MattersSeptember 18, 2023 Update 3:30 p.m. Sept. 19: The El Paso Independent School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve the sale of Morehead Middle School to the city. Board secretary Isabel Hernandez was absent. The El Paso City Council expects to vote on the purchase
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — A new migrant surge has been hitting the borderland in the last week. With more migrants arriving in Juarez and trying to make their way to the U.S., authorities have made changes, pulling resources away from commercial traffic and redirecting them towards the migrants. Last Friday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s
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EL PASO, TX (KVIA) — NGOs, city, and county officials are seeing the release of over 1,100 migrants into the community every day due to a recent surge in migrant arrivals. The city has provided shelter to 4,200 individuals in local hotels over the past week, but with the spike in numbers, The Office of
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Office of Emergency Management began setting up the Nations-Toben Recreation Center this weekend amid the recent migrant surge. A Statement from City spokeswoman Laura Cruz-Acosta released Monday says the space is not being used yet. “Out of an overabundance of caution, the OEM has set up an overflow facility
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Hundreds of migrants are lining up next to Gate 28 on the Mexican side of the border barrier. According to reports in Juarez, more migrants arrive every day via train. Many of those migrants have gathered next to Juarez’s red “X”. They are waiting to turn themselves over to U.S. authorities.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – In recent weeks the borderland has seen a new surge of migrants entering our region and across the nation’s borders. According to a spokesperson with the City, over the last seven days the region has seen a spike in encounters at the border averaging over 1,200 per day. Migrants can
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Originally Published: 18 SEP 23 15:29 ETUpdated: 18 SEP 23 16:07 ETBy Whitney Wild, CNN(CNN) — Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, pleaded not guilty to drug and money laundering charges Monday afternoon. Making his first court appearance since being extradited from Mexico on Friday, Guzmán López wore an
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UPDATE: The City of El Paso sent a statement to ABC-7 Monday, saying: “As the City advised the public last week, we are seeing another migrant surge in our region and across the nation’s borders. Over the last seven days the region has seen a spike in encounters at the border averaging over 1,200 per
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — As El Pasoans are starting to see more migrants crossing the border into their community, some are pushing back against plans the city announced Friday. According to El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser, preventing street releases is currently one of the city’s major goals, but he said it’s not going to
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(ABC) — A son of the notorious drug lord known as El Chapo arrived in the United States on Friday following his extradition from Mexico to face drug trafficking charges, according to sources. Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 33, was charged in April with two dozen others as part of a crackdown targeting a global drug trafficking
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Customs and Border Protection is shutting down cargo processing at the Bridge of the Americas starting Monday, September 18, 2023. A spokesperson says that temporary suspension will allow officers to help Border Patrol process incoming migrants. The officers will be dispatched to areas between ports of entry where migrants are
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The City of Juárez is experiencing a decrease in its migrant numbers as more leave for their appointments with U.S. authorities. ABC-7 spoke with the director of the Juarez Human Rights Department who said currently, migrant shelters in the city are working at between 70% and 80% capacity. According to the
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Originally Published: 13 SEP 23 18:23 ET Updated: 13 SEP 23 18:31 ET By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Texas ruled Wednesday that a regulation intended to preserve the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is unlawful, delivering a major blow to the Biden administration. Last year, the administration moved
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — With more migrants arriving in the Borderland, El Paso officials are working on solutions to open new spaces to shelter them. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is reporting more than 1,000 migrants are coming into the El Paso sector daily. With Border Patrol’s Northeast processing center and NGOs at capacity,
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Many Borderland residents are used to crossing the border every day, with many living on one side and working on the other one. As ABC-7 reported in June and on Sunday’s ABC-7 Xtra, the value of the Mexican peso has been increasing the last few months. This has helped people in
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego sat down with ABC-7 Monday. He said that the county has seen a rise in the number of migrants coming into the Borderland recently. Judge Samaniego said it can take longer to process Venezuelan migrants, compared to other migrant groups in the past. Right
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — With more migrants arriving at the border and filling local city shelters, Juarez authorities are looking for a plan to employ those staying in the shelters. Santiago González, the city’s Director of Human Rights, told ABC-7 his department is looking for a labor insertion project for migrants. But it will need a new
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Opportunity Center for the Homeless and the Annunciation House are two of the several shelters calling for more volunteers this week. This comes as the Borderland is once again seeing an increase of migrants in need of housing. Annunciation House remains in great need of volunteers who can commit
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)–Annunciation house, a local shelter that helps asylum seekers and refugees, is in need of volunteers. According to their Twitter page, Annunciation House said they are steadily receiving 400 to 500 refugees a day. They said they are in great need of volunteers who can commit to two full-time weeks or more. For more
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The City of Juarez is considering giving migrants jobs. The demand for workers and the increase in migrants could make that possible, experts say. Santiago Gonzalez, the city’s Director of Human Rights, said that the city is looking to get migrants staying in local shelters into workplaces like maquiladoras. Gonzalez
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — As of January 1st, 2023, Doña Ana County has recorded 56 deaths of undocumented immigrants found in the desert, more than double the amount seen in previous years. “We have this every year, to some extent, but nothing like this,” Sheriff Kim Stewart told ABC-7. Sheriff Stewart said her
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The City of Juarez started its Campaña Canje de Armas 2023 in August, aiming to decrease violence south of the border. With a budget of nearly $1 million Mexican pesos, officials on all three levels of Mexican government, along with the Chamber of Commerce in Juarez, will pay residents if they
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — According to a new report by the Los Angeles Times, the Biden Administration is considering keeping migrant families who cross into the United States in Texas. The report states the migrants would wait in border states while they are waiting asylum screening. It also states the migrants would be tracked
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Juarez residents are reacting to the news that the Mexican federal government is decriminalizing abortion nationwide. ABC-7 spoke with Juarez residents, specifically women, about this announcement. Many of them tell ABC-7 it is a step forward for the feminist movement in the country. Many questions are still up in the air,
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Originally Published: 06 SEP 23 17:07 ET By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge ordered Texas to remove floating barriers in the Rio Grande and barred the state from building new or placing additional buoys in the river, according to a Wednesday court filing, marking a victory for the Biden administration. This story
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (ABC) — Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalized abortion nationwide Wednesday, two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern state. That earlier ruling had set off a grinding process of decriminalizing abortion state by state. Last week, the central state of Aguascalientes became the 12th state to decriminalize the procedure.
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