El Paso leaders fear Abbott’s migrant ‘invasion’ talk will incite violence
EL PASO, Texas — El Paso political leaders and immigration rights advocates are condemning Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan…
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Pence criticizes Harris over declining to visit U.S.-Mexico border
KISSIMMEE, Florida — Former Vice President Mike Pence took aim at his successor on Friday at a conference for religious conservatives in…
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U.S.-Canada border restrictions extended, no word yet on Mexico
WASHINGTON, DC — Canada and the U.S. have extended their Covid-19 restrictions on non-essential border travel until July 21, according to the…
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2 dead migrants found in Sunland Park after another rescued from Mt. Cristo Rey
UPDATE: Sunland Park Police Chief Javier Guerra now says the bodies of two migrants have been found in the past 24 hours following the rescue of a…
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Abbott says Texas is providing initial $250 million ‘down payment’ for border wall
AUSTIN, Texas — Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday began announcing details of his plan for Texas to build its own border wall, starting the…
Continue Reading Stranded migrant on Mount Cristo Rey rescued, hospitalized
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — Firefighters found and rescued a migrant who was stuck on Mount Cristo Rey Wednesday morning. Sunland Park firefighters…
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Man’s body found in Lower Valley canal; 2nd victim in 2 days
EL PASO, Texas — A man’s body was found Wednesday morning in a Lower Valley canal near a wastewater treatment facility and close to the U.S.-Mexico…
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2 Fort Hood soldiers charged with attempting to smuggle undocumented immigrants into Texas
FORT HOOD, Texas — Two Fort Hood active-duty soldiers have been charged with attempting to smuggle two undocumented Mexican citizens into Texas…
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33 migrants found near death crammed into U-Haul in Van Horn
VAN HORN, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents detailed late Tuesday how they uncovered a human smuggling operation in Van Horn and rescued over 30…
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Samaniego has plan to vaccinate Juarez workers in region’s bid for herd immunity
TORNILLO, Texas — El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego outlined a plan to ABC-7 on Tuesday to vaccinate workers from maquiladoras across the…
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Trump to tour Texas border wall with Abbott at end of June
AUSTIN, Texas — Former president Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he “accepted the invitation” to tour Texas’ southern border…
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2 police officers & 4 cartel hit men killed in Juarez attacks
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican authorities on Tuesday confirmed a half-dozen deaths stemming from shootouts involving police and drug cartel hit…
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Body pulled out of Socorro canal near Rio Bosque Wetlands Park
SOCORRO, Texas — A body was discovered and pulled out of a canal in Socorro on Tuesday. The body was found by Socorro police and firefighters after…
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Northern Mexico bus accident leaves 12 dead, 10 injured
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — A bus carrying patients for treatment of chronic illnesses flipped in northern Mexico near the U.S. border Tuesday,…
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Abbott says he’ll use crowdfunding to build a Texas border wall
AUSTIN, Texas — When Gov. Greg Abbott announced last week that Texas would build its own border wall, one of the immediate questions…
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Democrats seek answers from Citizenship and Immigration Services on DACA delays
WASHINGTON, DC — A group of Democratic senators, led by U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, sent a letter to the US Citizenship and…
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Panic attacks highlight stress at Fort Bliss migrant kids shelter
FORT BLISS, Texas — Paramedics were called regularly to treat children suffering from panic attacks so severe their hands would constrict into balls…
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ICE terminates Trump-era office that focused on victims of immigrant crime
WASHINGTON, DC — Immigration and Customs Enforcement has terminated the Trump-era office that focused on victims of crimes linked to…
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Massive Juarez factory fire lights up sky, visible in El Paso
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A factory that makes wooden pallets in Juarez caught fire late Friday night. It lit up the night sky and sent plumes of…
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Biden cuts border wall funds, returns cash Trump diverted
WASHINGTON, DC — Former President Donald Trump’s signature border wall project would lose much of its funding as well as the fast-track status…
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More migrants found overcome by heat in Santa Teresa area
SANTA TERESA, New Mexico — Triple-digit temperatures have seen U.S. Border Patrol and Sunland Park firefighters perform multiple rescues this week…
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Body found near Border Highway was migrant who fell from fence to his death
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Police Department identified a body found by the U.S.-Mexico border wall near Ascarate Park in the Lower Valley…
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Migrant dies in desert heat in Sunland Park near border
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — For a second day in a row on Thursday, border-crossing migrants were found struggling in the heat of a desert area in…
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11 hurt when Border Patrol van carrying migrants is run off I-10 near Van Horn
VAN HORN, Texas — Eleven people were injured, two of them seriously, in a Thursday morning rollover crash near Van Horn involving a U.S. Border…
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Abbott tells ‘Border Security Summit’ he will build a Texas wall
DEL RIO, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday afternoon held what he billed as a “Border Security Summit” with a group of Texas sheriffs,…
Continue Reading Caught on video: Migrant teen in Texas shelter tased by cop
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Texas officials are investigating after newly released body camera footage obtained by the non-profit news outlet Reveal…
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2 migrants pulled from El Paso canal; rescues up amid high level of border crossings
EL PASO, Texas – As one set of U.S. Border Patrol agents were rescuing a pair of migrants overcome by heat in a remote desert area near Santa…
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Wife of drug kingpin ‘El Chapo’ pleads guilty to U.S. charges
WASHINGTON, DC — The wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has pleaded guilty to charges in the U.S. that alleged she helped…
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Juarez police rescue 140 Central American migrants kept in tiny house by smugglers
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Police in Juarez rescued 140 migrants on Wednesday who were forced to stay inside a small house that was just 16-by-16 feet.…
Continue Reading 2 migrants rescued in hot desert by Sunland Park fire crews, Border Patrol
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — Firefighters and U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued two Ecuadorian migrant women Wednesday afternoon overcome by heat in a…
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