EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso County is discussing its legal rights and responsibilities regarding ICE detention centers within county limits during today’s El Paso County Commissioners Court in executive session. This comes after the potential opening of a new ICE detention center in Clint, Texas. ABC-7 previously reported that the El Paso City
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso City Council will consider a plan to prevent ICE detention facilities within city limits, addressing concerns about human rights and public safety. The proposal involves collaboration with the County of El Paso and El Paso Water to explore legal and regulatory options. Here’s what the City Council
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — An El Paso man was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for his involvement in a conspiracy to use a border tunnel to smuggle undocumented migrants into the country. Oscar Ivan Carrillo, 20, appeared in federal court Wednesday to receive his sentence. Federal prosecutors say that on
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Court documents show that District Court Judge Marlene Gonzalez has recused herself from the case of an unaccompanied migrant child. “Not for the reasons alleged in Petitioner’s Motion to Recuse, but in the interest of judicial economy, this Court voluntarily recuses itself from further ruling in this cause,” a document
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Department of Homeland Security says it has arrested five migrant men convicted of serious crimes here in El Paso. DHS says Javier Barrientos of Mexico was convicted of homicide. Alejandro Gonzalez-Ramirez is from Cuba and was convicted of child sex abuse crimes. Reydell Oviedo Jimenez is also from Cuba
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A hearing to discuss the case of the second migrant who died while in federal custody at Camp East Montana inside Fort Bliss happened today at the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Downtown El Paso. 56-year-old, Geraldo Lunas Campos from Cuba was pronounced dead on Jan. 3 of this year and
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By Holmes Lybrand, Alisha Ebrahimji, Elise Hammond, CNN (CNN) — A man suspected of being involved in human trafficking was injured after exchanging gunfire with US Border Patrol agents and firing at a federal helicopter during a pursuit in Arizona near the US-Mexico border early Tuesday, according to Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos. Federal agents
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Geraldo Lunas Campos died Jan. 3 at Camp East Montana in Texas. By Laura Romero January 27, 2026, 11:45 AM Several detainees at a Texas immigration detention facility claim in sworn court declarations that they heard a Cuban immigrant, whose death was later ruled a homicide, pleading for medication shortly before hearing what sounded like guards
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — DHS is investigating a woman who officials say tried to buy a gun to “protect herself from ICE Agents, and also to kill ICE Agents.” ICE agents in New York are investigating, DHS officials say. New York State Police are also on the case. DHS officials say that the woman
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ABC-7 reported less than two weeks ago about the third reported migrant death at Camp East Montana inside Fort Bliss, where 36-year-old Victor Manuel Diaz died by presumed suicide, according to ICE. The attorney representing Diaz’s family from Nicaragua, Randall Kallinen, says they want to start an investigation into what
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Across the country, immigrations and customs enforcement is stepping up enforcement actions. Some communities are pushing back on what they’re calling federal overreach and aggressive tactics. The Trump administration is responding as well – defending the methods and training as necessary for national security. In the Borderland, groups of local
Continue Reading By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, Avery Schmitz, Michael Rios, Mauricio Torres, CNN Mexico City (CNN) — A US-Mexican influencer who disappeared in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa on Tuesday has been found alive and in good health, the Sinaloa Attorney General’s office said Saturday. In a post on social media, the prosecutor’s office thanked the public
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Customs and Border Protection recently released its tariff enforcement and economic security numbers for last year. After implementing 44 presidential tariff actions directed by the Trump administration, in December 2025 alone, CBP processed $314 billion in imports and identified $28.4 billion in duties owed. Official reports also say that from
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A Peruvian migrant is accused of assaulting a Border Patrol agent in the Mount Cristo Rey area. The migrant, Denis Puente-Rios, had previously been removed from the United States and was attempting to illegally reenter the country at the time of the assault, court documents state. In addition to the
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Victor Manuel Diaz died at an ICE detention facility in Texas on Jan. 14. By Laura Romero January 23, 2026, 2:02 PM The family of a Nicaraguan migrant who died at an ICE detention facility in Texas is pushing back against the Department of Homeland Security’s suggestion that his death may have been a suicide.
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BY ANGELA KOCHERGA AND DIANNE SOLIS This article was co-published with Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom dedicated to high-quality coverage from the U.S.-Mexico border, and KTEP Public Radio. EL PASO – Once a flashpoint in the heated debate over high immigration flows, this city is now a hub for detentions and deportations –
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments surrounding Texas Senate Bill 4 today. The bill was originally passed in December of 2023 and makes illegally entering Texas from Mexico a crime. The state is asking the court to reconsider a ruling that blocked the implementation of SB 4. El
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By Steve Fisher, Kate Linthicum This article was co-published with Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom dedicated to high-quality coverage from the U.S.-Mexico border, the Los Angeles Times, with data compiled by Quinto Elemento Lab, an investigative nonprofit based in Mexico. Adrián Ramírez hadn’t been to his hometown in western Mexico for more than
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Update (3:18 PM): El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson released a statement addressing the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos, the Cuban migrant who died at Camp East Montana earlier this year. Johnson posted the statement to social media. Read it in full below: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mayor Renard Johnson (@mayorrenardjohnson)
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico (KVIA) — U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector is set to hold a press event along with the National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), which will feature the agency’s director, Sara Carter, also known as the Drug Czar. ONDCP is the White House component that leads and coordinates the nation’s drug policy
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — President Trump visited Michigan last week, where he said the USMCA trade agreement is irrelevant to the country’s economy. The president claimed the U.S. does not need either Mexico or Canada for trade and industry. Local economy experts and leaders say this is not true. “There’s no advantage to it,
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SIERRA BLANCA, Texas (KVIA) — The U.S. Border Patrol has unveiled a first-of-its-kind advanced vehicle barrier system at the Sierra Blanca immigration checkpoint along Interstate 10, marking the first deployment of the technology at a permanent Border Patrol checkpoint nationwide. The checkpoint sits just outside Sierra Blanca, Texas, along one of the busiest highway corridors
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — ABC-7 has obtained the autopsy report for Francisco Gaspar-Andres, the first migrant reported to have died while detained at Camp East Montana. The autopsy report states that Gaspar-Andres died from complications of alcoholic hepatic cirrhosis. The report states he displayed signs of jaundice and icteric sclerae. He also had cardiac
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The administrator previously offered $1,000 for those who self-deported. By Luke Barr January 21, 2026, 11:11 AM The Department of Homeland Security announced on Wednesday that it is increasing its stipend for those who are in the United States illegally and self-deport by $1,600. Previously, DHS offered $1,000 to those who use the Customs and Border
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Today marks one year since President Donald Trump was sworn into office for a second term as president. In protest of the anniversary, as well as the Trump Administration’s recent ICE raids, some Borderland residents took to Downtown El Paso in protest. The protestors held signs and walked the streets
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Mexico’s security minister says the country has sent 37 more cartel members to the United States Courtesy: Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection Mexico’s security minister said Tuesday that it had sent another 37 members of Mexican drug cartels to the United States, as the Trump administration ratchets up pressure on governments to crack down
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Mexico’s new multi-million dollar highway project is expected to strengthen the country’s economic ties with the U.S. The project is also the subject of the upcoming People, Places, and Paul report, airing Thursday, January 22, 2026, only on ABC-7 at 10. Experts are anticipating that, once completed, the project could
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Update (3:28 PM): El Paso’s Congresswoman Veronica Escobar is commenting on ICE’s possible new detention facilities in El Paso County. Escobar says that a private corporation received an almost $30 million federal contract to design more detention space for El Paso county. Escobar says that includes another facility in El Paso. “Donald Trump and Republicans
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico (KVIA) — The U.S. federal government is about to begin construction of a new border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border in the Mount Cristo Rey area of Sunland Park, New Mexico. According to the El Paso Sector Border Patrol and the Ciudad Juárez Civil Protection Department, controlled detonations are expected to
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A video circulating on social media shows two migrants crossing the Rio Grande dressed as construction workers, along with three suspected human smugglers; this reportedly occurred on January 9. Once they crossed the river, they were seen walking toward the levee and then heading to one of the border wall
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