Mexican Consulate ceremony honors El Paso shooting victims
EL PASO, Texas — The Consulate General of Mexico in El Paso held a ceremony Monday morning to honor of the victims of the Aug. 3, 2019 mass…
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Border Patrol agents near Las Cruces find murder fugitive hiding in bus restroom
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – A man wanted for murder in Virginia was arrested by Border Patrol agents who found him hiding in a restroom on a bus,…
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‘Love has no boundaries’: Borderland couple weds on international bridge amid pandemic
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — It’s not ideal. It’s loud. It’s cramped. Yet, for Heriberto and Ana Sosa, it was the perfect place for them to get…
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Body pulled from downtown El Paso canal by water rescue crews
EL PASO, Texas — Fire department water rescue crews pulled a body out of the water of a downtown El Paso canal on Wednesday evening. The body was…
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Juarez approaches 4,300 virus cases, 650 deaths as Mexican businesses struggle in pandemic
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — As of Tuesday, Ciudad Juarez accounts for 4,288 of Chihuahua state’s 7,707 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 648 of its 885…
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U.S. won’t expel migrant children secretly detained in Texas hotel
HOUSTON, Texas — The Trump administration has agreed not to expel children it detained in a Texas hotel and will instead allow them to remain in the…
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Chihuahua Secretary of Health is latest virus fatality as state hits 868 deaths – most occurring in Juárez
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The state of Chihuahua Secretary of Health became the latest victim of the coronavirus, the Mexican government announced…
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Trump sued by El Paso County over attempt to omit undocumented immigrants from key census count
EL PASO, Texas — President Donald Trump’s attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants from census figures that will be used to divide up seats in…
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Kentucky Club owner dies of virus as Juarez death toll hits 634; Mexico’s president seeks better health care
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The death toll from the coronavirus in Juárez reached 634 on Friday, with a prominent bar owner among the latest…
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ACLU demands El Paso police release videos from deadly Paisano crash
EL PASO, Texas — The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas is seeking videos and other documents related to a June 25 crash that killed…
Continue Reading Migrant kids being held in Texas & Arizona hotels, then expelled
HOUSTON, Texas — The Trump administration is detaining immigrant children as young as 1 in hotels before deporting them to their home countries.…
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Trump seeks to bar immigrants in country illegally from reapportionment count
WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump is expected to sign a memorandum Tuesday that seeks to bar people in the U.S. illegally from being counted…
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Clashes in Chihuahua over Mexico repaying U.S. water debt
CHIHUAHUA, Mexico — Farmers once again clashed with Mexican military forces to protest releases of water from a dam to repay a water debt owed to…
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Mexico puts military in charge of customs at border crossings
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexico’s president said he is putting the army in charge of customs at border crossings and seaports to combat corruption…
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4 border agents fired over racist & violent secret Facebook group; Escobar says it’s not enough
LOS ANGELES, California — U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the parent agency of the Border Patrol, has fired four border agents and suspended…
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U.S.-Mexico border closure to be extended another month to the dismay of some El Paso businesses
EL PASO, Texas — The U.S. border with Mexico is expected to remain closed until at least August 21, the Mexican embassy tweeted this week,…
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Juarez man accused of assaulting El Paso women joggers is cited & released by police
UPDATE, July 14: El Paso police announced Tuesday they had taken a Juarez man into custody who was suspected of assaulting women joggers. But shortly…
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Trump administration rescinds rule on foreign students studying online
BOSTON, Massachusetts — Facing eight federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities, the Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a…
Continue Reading Smugglers busted carrying 145 pounds of meth over border on an ultralight aircraft
Drug smugglers are getting pretty creative, but it’s not every day that they try to do it in an ultralight aircraft. US Customs and Border…
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Trump rips border wall built by his ‘We Build the Wall’ supporters
MISSION, Texas — President Donald Trump is criticizing a privately built border wall in South Texas that was constructed by “We Build the Wall” -…
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Festival Desertica 2020 moves to online platform for Borderland fans
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — It may be hard to believe but the Borderland has a beer festival going on over weekend. Now it is second year of existence,…
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El Paso man pleads guilty to smuggling live animals worth millions across border
EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man pleaded guilty this week in federal court on charges of conspiring to traffic thousands of live reptiles, amphibians…
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El Paso Border Patrol vehicle runs over migrant during search near Ysleta Port of Entry
EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso sector Border Patrol agent ran over a 29-year-old Mexican migrant with a vehicle during a search near the Ysleta Port of…
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Arrests along U.S.-Mexico border jumped 40% last month
WASHINGTON, DC — Around 40 percent more migrants were detained at the Mexico-U.S. border in June than the month before, with the Washington Post…
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Trump forgoes insults of past, calls Mexico’s president a friend
WASHINGTON, DC — President Donald Trump, who has denigrated Mexican migrants and threatened the U.S. ally with crippling tariffs, welcomed…
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Ex-Chihuahua Gov. Cesar Duarte arrested in U.S., will be extradited to Mexico on corruption charges
MIAMI, Florida — U.S. authorities in Florida on Wednesday arrested a former Mexican governor for extradition on corruption charges,…
Continue Reading Mexico’s president has his own plane. So why is he flying commercial to meet Trump?
If you happen to be flying between Mexico City and Washington, DC, this week, you could be seatmates with a president. Mexican President Andrés…
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Mexico tops 30,000 virus deaths for 5th in world, but Juárez sees fewest deaths in months
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexico topped 30,000 Covid-19 deaths Saturday, overtaking France as the country with the fifth-highest death toll since the…
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Mexican soldiers kill 12 gunmen in city on border with Texas
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — Mexican soldiers patrolling in the Texas border city of Nuevo Laredo came under fire from drug cartel gunmen, then killed 12…
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As coronavirus cases spike in Arizona, a neighboring Mexican state tries to shut out Americans
US and Mexican discourse regarding the shared border typically centers on efforts to keep Mexicans from traveling north. But this weekend, as Arizona…
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