MEXICO CITY (AP) — The new U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, said the United States has asked the Mexican government to allow agents, including those from the Drug Enforcement Administration, to work in Mexico. Last year Mexico pulled foreign agents’ immunity from prosecution and imposed strict limits on their contacts with their Mexican counterparts.
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By ALFREDO PEÑA Associated Press CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities have discovered 652 Central American migrants in six trailers near the United States border. The trucks stopped at a military checkpoint Thursday night on a highway between Ciudad Victoria and Monterrey in the northern state of Tamaulipas. The state public safety agency said
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RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas — A suspected human smuggler lead Texas Department of Public Safety troopers on a high-speed car chase in the Rio Grande Valley that was caught on helicopter video. On the video, you can see the driver goes down an access road with the car weaving left and right. The driver then loses
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By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — High-level delegations from Mexico and the United States have laid out the outlines of a new security framework for the bilateral relationship that at least conceptually mark a departure from the mindset that steered their cooperation over the past decade. The so-called U.S.-Mexico Bicentennial Framework for
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration is canceling another slate of border wall contracts — this time, in the Laredo and Rio Grande Valley sectors, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday. In one of his first actions in office, President Joe Biden had ordered a pause on wall construction and called for a
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By Matt Rivers, CNN Just four years ago, the half dozen teenage girls from Afghanistan strode confidently into competition, waving their country’s flag. The global robotics competition, held in the US in 2017, was a chance for the team to show to the world what so many in their own country doubted — that girls
Continue Reading TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) — Another armed Indigenous vigilante group has appeared in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas. In a video posted on social media Thursday, a group of about 30 masked men are seen holding mainly hunting rifles and shotguns in the woods. The group say it is made up of members of
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MISSION, Texas — Eight Republican governors traveled to Texas to join Gov. Greg Abbott for a Wednesday tour of the border with Mexico. The Republican Governors Public Policy Committee funded the transportation to Texas, and a press release said it was a visit to the border “to witness firsthand the crisis playing out, reveal their
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — Stash houses are considered a place where migrants entering the U.S. illegally are hidden before moving on to their next destination, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection say the number of these stash houses in the Borderland has tripled since last year. Although CBP cannot confirm the information because of
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HORIZON CITY, Texas — A Horizon City man was arrested during a raid by federal agents on accusations of operating a “dangerous” human smuggling network, authorities said Tuesday. Homeland Security officials said 47-year-old Roberto Benavidez was the target of a year-long investigation by federal authorities. During that time, Benavidez allegedly harbored and transported more than
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The United States admitted 11,411 people through the refugee admissions program in fiscal year 2021, according to the State Department, the lowest number in 40 years. Previously, the lowest number of refugees allowed into the US was 11,814 in fiscal year 2020, when the pandemic delayed the process for many. The
Continue Reading By ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal appeals court has tossed out California’s ban on privately owned immigration detention facilities, keeping intact a key piece of the world’s largest detention system for immigrants. A divided three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday that it found the ban
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico says it wants to see more U.S. action on extraditions and weapons trafficking at security meetings scheduled for Friday with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Mexico’s top diplomat said Tuesday he wants to see faster extraditions of suspects from the United States and fewer guns coming across the border.
Continue Reading By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent A top State Department legal adviser leaving his post told his colleagues in a memo over the weekend that the Biden administration’s deportations of Haitians from the US-Mexico border are illegal and inhumane. Harold Koh, a senior adviser at State, sent the memo taking issue with the administration’s decision
Continue Reading By JULIE WATSON Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — Refugee admissions to the United States fell to a record low during the 2021 budget year despite President Joe Biden’s pledge to bring back the program that was decimated by the Trump administration. A total of 11,445 refugees were allowed into the United States during the
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego is hoping build upon his idea to vaccinate maquiladora workers and get more Juarenses vaccinated – this time the youth. Samaniego is looking to put Covid-19 vaccine shots into the arms of tens of thousands of Juarez teenagers. The judge admits it will be costly since
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY (AP) — A regulatory commission in Mexico has fined three manufacturers of tampons and diapers just over $15 million for allegedly conspiring to fix prices for the products. Mexico’s Commission on Economic Competition said Monday the price-fixing probably cost consumers about $73 million in artificially inflated prices. The three companies did not respond
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EL PASO, Texas — Back-to-back seizures of the dangerous synthetic drug fentanyl happened at two El Paso ports of entry this week. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, in both instances, agents were tipped off to wrongdoing by nervous behavior at inspection points. A 30-year-old man was arrested after attempting to cross the Ysleta
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico (KVIA) — An eight-mile stretch of border, between Mount Cristo Rey and the Santa Teresa Port of Entry, is among the busiest and most heavily-trafficked areas for undocumented immigrants in the Southwest U.S. Sunland Park and Anapra, Mexico are at the heart of this area. “We kind of have to pick
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EL PASO, Texas — A new position created by the U.S. Border Patrol after the 2019 surge of migrants to El Paso is looking to ease the workload on agents securing the border, and the agency is looking for new applicants. The surge of migrants in 2019 diverted many agents away from the border to
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — U.S. Border Patrol agents said Friday they had foiled another human smuggling operation in the El Paso sector after they intercepted a semi-truck carrying 69 undocumented migrants. The discovery took place at an immigration checkpoint on Interstate 25, north of Las Cruces.Agents also seized more than $11,000 found inside the
Continue Reading By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent The Drug Enforcement Administration said Thursday it made 810 arrests and seized more than 1.8 million fake pills during a two-month sweep to stem the flow of counterfeit medications containing the synthetic opioid fentanyl. The lethal tablets are fueling a surge in US drug-overdose deaths in recent years, and
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit put on hold Thursday a lower court order that would have forced the Biden administration to stop expelling migrant families with children at the border under a public health authority linked to the pandemic. The Biden administration can continue to expel migrant families with children while the
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WASHINGTON, DC — The Biden administration on Thursday announced new rules that require authorities to only pursue migrants who recently crossed into the country without permission or are deemed to pose a threat to public safety. The new guidelines replace interim rules issued in February and blocked by a federal judge in August as part
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EL PASO, Texas — There have been several human smuggling busts by U.S. Border Patrol agents in the El Paso sector in less than a week. The largest involved a stash house that agents found in Canutillo last weekend. Officials said 32 migrants were found in the small home located across from the Jose J.
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EL PASO, Texas — The U.S. Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector is installing new autonomous cameras along the border that will help agents monitor highly trafficked areas. The cameras are known as Autonomous Surveillance Towers (AST). Currently, the El Paso sector has 2 cameras installed in the Santa Teresa station, with plans of installing 13
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Approximately 4,600 Haitians have been removed from the United States on repatriation flights from Texas to Haiti since September 19, a Homeland Security spokesperson told CNN on Wednesday. The Biden administration has relied on a Trump-era public health authority, known as Title 42, to swiftly remove migrants encountered at the US-Mexico
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EL PASO, Texas — Officials at El Paso’s Annunciation House shelter told reporters Monday that they had received more than 1,200 migrants over the last few days – most of them sent 400 miles from Del Rio to El Paso – and indicated this group is expected to remain in the U.S. Out of the
Continue Reading By ELLIOT SPAGAT and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is renewing efforts to shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States as young children from deportation, the latest maneuver in a long-running drama over the policy’s legality. An administration proposal on Monday attempts to satisfy concerns
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A group of armed men shot and killed seven people at a party and then burned the house down in Juarez early Sunday morning, ABC-7’s news partners at Canal 44 reported. The deadly attack unfolded around dawn at the intersection of Privada Francisco I. Madero and Rodolfo Fierro streets, in the
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