JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — On Monday, a garbage truck operated by a private company dropped a large amount of trash onto Manuel Gómez Morín, one of Juarez’s main boulevards. This trash dump caused accidents and traffic backups in the early hours of Monday morning when people were driving to work and school. Juarez residents complained
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The number of migrants dying in the desert around this region is up almost double from last year, according to official figures from Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Amidst the record-breaking temperatures registered this summer, El Paso border authorities have reported more rescues and more deaths by dehydration and heat
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Congresswoman Veronica Escobar found and rescued a dog that had become trapped by concertina wire near the U.S./Mexico border. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Veronica Escobar (@veronicaescobartx) In a recent Instagram post, the congresswoman wrote that the dog, who she named Rio, now needs
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Juarez mayor Cruz Pérez Cuéllar confirmed in a morning news conference that the city has seen an increase in migrant numbers recently. Currently, the city’s Kiki Romero shelter is at its full capacity, hosting around 200 migrants. The federal government’s shelter is hosting a large number of migrants as well. ABC-7
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Originally Published: 04 SEP 23 07:45 ETUpdated: 04 SEP 23 15:07 ETBy Jack Guy, CNN(CNN) — A pilot has died after the plane he was flying as part of a gender reveal party in Mexico crashed on Sunday.Video posted online shows the plane releasing pink smoke as it flies over a couple waiting in front
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By ANITA SNOW Associated Press ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz. (AP) — Border Patrol agents ordered the young Senegalese men to wait in the scant shade of desert scrub brush while they loaded a more vulnerable group of migrants — a family with three young children from India — into a white van for
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — As drug cartel-related violence spikes in Ciudad Juárez, criminal organizations in Mexico are increasingly attempting to recruit U.S. deported veterans, according to multiple sources who spoke with ABC-7. The veterans’ set of skills, learned while serving in the military, makes veterans deported into Mexico a valuable asset for criminal organizations,
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — On Tuesday night, 400 members of the Mexican Army’s Special Forces arrived at the border to continue with the government’s Unidos por Juárez strategy. That strategy started in July. Soldiers arrived at the Juarez International Airport to support federal, state and local authorities with safety and security in the city. According
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Robert Almonte travels the country lecturing and advising law enforcement agencies on how to improve policing. Before that, he served as a U.S. Marshal, a D.E.A. agent, and an El Paso Police officer. Almonte was one of the founding members of a group that brought together several agencies to crack
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Early Tuesday morning, El Paso Sheriff’s deputies stopped a man who officials say was driving to pick up and smuggle migrants into the country. Deputies stopped Gonzalo Cuevas-Martinez after his car allegedly made an improper turn on the 6100 block of Upper Valley Road. The deputies saw two people inside
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — On Monday, over 290,000 students in Juarez returned to classes after their summer break. Students from kindergarten, elementary, middle, and high schools went back to their classrooms, some excited for the new school year. ABC-7 visited some of those schools and noticed long lines of parents waiting to drop their kids.
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by Puente News Collaborative, El Paso MattersAugust 28, 2023 By Blanca Carmona and Veronica Martinez/La Verdad CIUDAD JUAREZ – A Texas National Guard soldier on duty in El Paso fired a shot toward a Mexican national, who was found wounded along the banks of the Rio Grande in Juárez over the weekend. The victim, identified
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — 250 stash houses have been found in the El Paso Sector so far this year, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. That includes both drug and human smuggling operations. ABC-7 spoke with a former El Paso Police Deputy Chief and U.S. Marshal to understand trafficking trends, especially those
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PASADENA, Texas (KTRK) — A new mugshot shows an 18-year-old charged with the murder of an 11-year-old girl whose body was found by her father, under a bed at a Pasadena apartment complex. The Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana shared the photo of Juan Carlos Garcia-Rodriguez with ABC13 on Tuesday. Meanwhile, loved ones will
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By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — During a trial Thursday on the fate of an immigration program focused on people from Central America and the Caribbean, lawyers for Texas and 20 other Republican-leaning states suing to stop it accused the federal initiative of being outside the law. But an American sponsoring one
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Many Borderland residents lovingly remember Juan Gabriel as one of the most iconic singers from our area. El Divo de Juárez passed away on August 28, 2016, while he was on tour in California. Since then, the City of Juarez has commemorated his passing every year with different celebrations. This year
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Nearly $15 million is headed to El Paso migrant organizations. The money is coming from the Department of Homeland Security through FEMA and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as part of $77 million announced Monday spread out nationwide. The money is being given to support border and interior communities receiving
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EL PASO, Texas, (KVIA) — Court documents filed by the Justice Department claim Texas is repositioning a controversial floating barrier close to the southern border. The documents say excavators and workers were seen moving a concrete anchor in the Rio Grande River. This comes just days after a separate court filing claimed 80 percent of
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser said the city is planning to open a new shelter to host asylum seekers and animals during Monday’s city council meeting, The idea came as the city wants to address both crowding situations; taking animals off the street and combining them with migrants to improve
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SANTA TERESA, New Mexico (KVIA) — Eighteen migrants were found inside a small SUV in a smuggling scheme bust, according to a tweet by U.S. Border Patrol Chief of the El Paso Sector, Anthony “Scott” Good. Good did not specify when the bust happened. This is a developing story. “Transnational Criminal Organizations disregard the lives
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Border Patrol officials say a group of agents were shot at from the Mexican side of the border barrier this morning. Officials say the shooting happened in Clint at about 7 AM. The agents were in the process of apprehending a group of migrants who had allegedly entered the U.S.
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A community engagement meeting will be held today to discuss the expansion of the Bridge of the Americas Port of Entry facilities. The U.S. General Services Administration is managing the project that was funded through a bipartisan infrastructure bill that was passed and singed into law by President Joe Biden.
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — On Monday, the National Institute of Migration announced it will compensate the families of the migrants killed in a Juarez detention center fire in late March. In a statement made by the INM, on July 10, the Executive Commission for Attention to Victims (CEAV) decided to pay 3.5 million Mexican pesos
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso is seeing a rise in the number of migrants on its streets right now. That means that most shelters are at or over capacity. As a temporary solution, the City of El Paso started putting some migrants in hotels. On Monday, ABC-7 spoke with John Martin, the Deputy
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A significant number of migrants has been seen in Segundo Barrio lately, outside of Sacred Heart Church. Migrants continue to arrive in Juarez by train, according to El Diario de Juárez. Approximately 500 migrants were seen during the weekend, with more to come soon, according to experts. They have been
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico (KVIA) — One person was struck by a train near the border wall in Sunland Park, Thursday night. It happened near Anapra Rd. and Posey Rd. according to Sunland Park Fire Department’s Twitter page. One person was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. Officials say the call came in at
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The Juarez Water Company (JMAS) has been accused of selling salty water to the Puerto Anapra and Lomas de Poleo neighborhoods on the city’s southwest side. According to residents living in that area, it’s been a problem for the last 20 years. ABC-7 spoke with the Juarez Water Company to learn
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)– ABC-7 has obtained the 911 call made by a 6-year-old that led to a stash house bust. In that phone call a girl is heard asking for help after she says she was abandoned by her mother. “I think my mom abandoned me. Could you tell her… that to come back,”
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua — Chihuahua state authorities, along with the Mexican National Guard and the Mexican Defense Secretary, looked for prohibited items inside the CERESO 3 prison in Juarez and found over 340 prohibited items. Over 900 government officials assisted in the search process, according to the Chihuahua Department of Public Safety. They found personal items
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A high-speed DPS pursuit ended in a crash and small fire near the Ysleta Port of Entry Monday morning. DPS officials said that the driver of a white Chevrolet Tahoe did not stop when one of their troopers tried to pull them over for a registration infraction. Instead, the driver
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