AUSTIN, Texas — Governor Greg Abbott says he has invoked the Invasion Clauses of the U.S. and Texas Constitutions in a new executive order to fight back what he calls an invasion at the Texas-Mexico border. The governor sent a letter to county judges along the Texas-Mexico border to “assure” them the state was taking
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EL PASO, Texas – Ten local nonprofits received $75,000 in matching funds from Marathon Petroleum as part of the 7th annual El Paso Giving Day. The organizations offer programs in support of the environment and hunger relief. Bowie High School Garden, Celebration of Our Mountains, Eco El Paso, El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food bank and
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EL PASO, Texas — A week after the safe community releases started in the city, reports indicate migrants are backlogged at the airport. According to a New York Post article, the surge of migrants may overwhelm the airport. This was after the city ended the former bus program that was sending migrants to New York.
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EL PASO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers seized 215 pounds of methamphetamine with an estimated street value of more than $420,000. The seizure occurred during an inspection into a train crossing into the U.S. from Mexico at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad crossing just west of the Paso Del Norte port
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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas asked US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus to resign this week, two sources familiar with the discussions tell CNN. Magnus has been criticized internally for being out of touch with the agency and publicly for the handling of the US-Mexico border. During his tenure,
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EL PASO, Texas — The migrant situation in El Paso is still a concern for the city. On Monday’s city council meeting, the current migrant situation was discussed. Jorge Rodriguez, emergency management coordinator with the Office of Emergency Management, went over how migrant encounters have gone up from late October to the first week of
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EL PASO, Texas – The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for accreditation with their compliance with performance standards. The Gold Seal represents quality represented by Emergence Health Network’s continued commitment to providing safe and quality patient care. In October 2022, EHN received an unannounced onsite review. The commission evaluated EHN’s compliance to standards in
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EL PASO, Texas – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested two undocumented migrants after investigation revealed they had assaulted a federal office near Ascarate Park on Halloween. Kevin Escalona Gonzalez and Yuleixy Mata Fuentes were taken into custody and charged them with the assault. The FBI said a U.S. Border Patrol agent were advised
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua, Mexico — Daylight saving time changed on Sunday. Clocks turned back one hour in El Paso and Las Cruces but not in Juarez. Borderland residents who work or study on both sides were affected by the time change on Monday. Now, Juarez will be an hour ahead of El Paso and Las Cruces
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EL PASO, Texas — A local non-profit organization is continuing sending charter buses full of migrants despite the City of El Paso and the Office of Emergency Management ending their charter operations last month. The Annunciation House of El Paso continues to see migrants in need of shelter and transportation as they make the journey
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EL PASO, Texas– People from El Paso, Ciudad Juarez and Las Cruces came together to pray for those who have died attempting to cross the border into the United States. The 25th annual event was hosted by the Diocese of El Paso. Bishop Mark Seitz says there was a bigger picture at hand today when
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EL PASO, Texas — Residents in the Segundo Barrio claim migrants continue to come out of manholes. Last week ABC-7 spoke with one resident in the area who said she had witnessed migrants coming out of manholes for about two weeks already. The resident claimed the migrant activity was happening throughout the day and the
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EL PASO, Texas — Monday’s Venezuelan migrant protest in Juarez increased tensions with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The protest led to one arrest. One of the protest leaders, who crossed over to the US side, was arrested for illegal entry and booked at the El Paso Downtown jail Tuesday, Roberto Marquez. Roberto Marquez was
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UPDATE (4:15 p.m.): The incident along the Rio Grande began around 12:20 p.m. Monday, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Officials say Venezuelan nationals protesting along the Rio Grande near downtown El Paso attempted to illegally enter the United States. According to CBP, one of the protestors assaulted an agent with a flag pole.
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EL PASO, Texas – The Combined Search and Rescue Team continues to investigate after they discovered the body of a man. According to fire dispatch, the rescue call came in around 12:30 p.m. Saturday. The incident happened near 11055 Andrew Barcena at Chuck Heinrich Memorial Park. Dispatch told ABC-7 that the body of a man
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EL PASO, Texas — A Texas judge reduced the cash bond for the two brothers accused in a fatal migrant shooting last month. Brothers Michael and Mark Sheppard allegedly shot at a group of thirteen migrants in Hudspeth County. One of those migrants died. The Sheppards were arrested. Their bond was initially set at $250,000
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EL PASO, Texas — Some El Paso residents who live in the Segundo Barrio say they have witnessed suspected migrants coming out of sewage tunnels and manholes. Rosalinda Tapia, told ABC-7 she has lived in the area her entire life. She said she has never witnessed anything like what she has seen in recent weeks.
Continue Reading By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Gaps in fencing along the US-Mexico border can be a dramatic — and sometimes puzzling — sight. Miles of tall steel bollards end abruptly, giving way to open space or much smaller barriers that are designed to block vehicles from crossing, but not people. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey says he
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EL PASO, Texas — Nearly a quarter-ton of bologna with a side of 285 pounds of cheese were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers Thursday morning at the Paso Del Norte border crossing. CBP The bologna seizure happened just after 1:30 a.m. CBP officers discovered 44 rolls of the Mexican bologna hidden in
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua — Venezuelan migrants are trying to be more visible to U.S. authorities after setting up their camps in front of a CBP processing center. They were sleeping right next to the El Paso Del Norte bridge and around the COESPO offices in Juarez. Tuesday night, Venezuelan migrants moved to be more visible along
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Senate approved a bill Wednesday to eliminate daylight saving time, putting an end to the practice of changing clocks twice a year. Some cities and towns along the U.S. border can retain daylight saving time, presumably because they are so linked to U.S. cities. The Senate approved the measure on
Continue Reading By Chris Boyette, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration did not comply with state public records laws and must turn over records relating to flights taking migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, a judge ruled Tuesday. On September 14, two planes picked up 48 migrants in San Antonio, Texas, and dropped them off in Martha’s
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EL PASO, Texas –U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say there’s been an 80% drop in encounters with Venezuelan migrants in the week since launching joint actions with Mexico to reduce irregular migration. The shift came after an abrupt turn from the Biden Administration to deny Venezuelans who attempt to enter the U.S. illegally a
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua — United States Navy Veteran Gerardo Sotelo Pinales is set to return to his hometown of El Paso after being in Juarez for 28 years. He was deported after he started doing drugs at his young age. Sotelo was living in a homeless shelter in Juarez. He suffered different health difficulties while in
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EL PASO, Texas — The City of El Paso and the Office of Emergency Management closed the Migrant Welcome Center Thursday, citing the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s discontinuation of sending migrants to the City. A city spokesperson said CBP had had a significant decrease in encounters with migrants. This comes after new policy action
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EL PASO, Texas — The City of El Paso and the Office of Emergency Management is demobilizing the Migrant Welcome Center by the end of Thursday, Oct. 20, according to a city spokeswoman. The spokeswoman cites the new Department of Homeland Security’s policy to return unauthorized Venezuelan migrants back to Mexico. Laura Cruz Acosta says
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser once again denied he was pressured not to declare an emergency crisis over the migrant surge in a statement released Thursday. The controversy erupted over a New York Post article that said the White House pressured the mayor not to declare a state of emergency due
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JUAREZ, Chihuahua — Today, groups of Venezuelan migrants protested a few feet away the CBP processing center next to the El Paso Del Norte bridge in Juarez. Most of them were barely returned yesterday or even today. They showed their frustration and even asked the U.S. government for help because of their situation. ABC-7 got
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EL PASO, Texas — A new report from the United States Government Accountability Office shows that one out of every four noncitizen families did not report to immigration officials to receive their charging document. The GAO investigated new processing techniques that were implemented by Border Patrol in March of 2020, as the southwest border saw
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EL PASO, Texas — The new federal policy announced by the Biden administration that says Venezuelan migrants would be kicked out of the country if they illegally cross the border could end El Paso’s migrant busing program. Deputy City Manager Mario D’Agostino told the New York Post over the weekend that the new federal policy
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