MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Friday it suffered a rupture in an undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico, sending flames boiling to the surface in the Gulf waters. Petroleos Mexicanos said it had dispatched fire control boats to pump more water over the flames. Pemex, as the company is known,
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EL PASO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents raided two Borderland stash houses utilized by human smugglers this week, rounding up over five-dozen migrants, authorities said Friday. RELATED STORY: 5 stranded migrant kids rescued from rain-swollen Rio Grande One of the stash house busts occurred in Sunland Park, where border agents said the found 43
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EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued five unaccompanied migrant teenagers early Thursday, saving them from potentially drowning in the Rio Grande near the Ysleta Port of Entry. Officials said the five Guatemalan kids – ranging in age from 14 to 17 – became stranded in the river around 12:20 a.m. due to
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WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. officials will close four emergency facilities set up to house record numbers of migrant children crossing the Mexican border alone but cautioned that minors were still arriving. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will shut two facilities in Texas and two at convention centers in California by early August, Aurora Miranda-Maese, juvenile coordinator
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EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents had a busy Tuesday in the Borderland as they found dozens of migrants in an El Paso stash house and arrested several others in Sierra Blanca following an armed home break-in, officials said Wednesday. The stash house discovery of 35 migrants occurred in central El Paso. Agents
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(Editor’s note: In the video players above, first is Trump and Abbott’s appearance together at the border, in the second player is their complete remarks at a border security briefing beforehand.) PHARR, Texas — Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday joined Texas’ top state leaders at the U.S.-Mexico border to slam the Biden administration’s immigration
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will pay for all the costs needed to rebuild Mexico City’s subway overpass-stretch, which left 26 dead after it collapsed last month, according to Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Lopez Obrador said during his daily press briefing on Wednesday that he met with Slim, and that the
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SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Tuesday she will use a donation from a Republican donor to fund a deployment of up to 50 South Dakota National Guard troops to the U.S. border with Mexico. Noem joined a growing list of Republican governors promising to send law enforcement officers to Texas as the GOP
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WASHINGTON, DC — More than 1 million migrants have been arrested after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border since last October, according to two U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials, surpassing the 2019 border crisis tally with three months still left in the fiscal year. The Biden administration has been bracing for a high number of
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WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the government can indefinitely detain certain immigrants who say they will face persecution or torture if they are deported to their native countries. Over the dissent of three liberal justices, the court held 6-3 that the immigrants are not entitled to a hearing about whether
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Heavy rainfall that triggered flash flooding in El Paso had a similar impact across the border in Juarez on Monday afternoon and into the night. ABC-7’s newsgathering partners at Canal 44 reported numerous street closures due to water accumulation. There was also a landslide reported along a hill in a section
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is pulling out all the stops to build a border wall between his state and Mexico, and a new poll shows that his base is all for it. Texas Republicans are overwhelmingly supportive of Abbott’s border wall effort: 89% support it and only 8% are opposed, according to
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Bitcoin rose Monday after Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the owner of Mexico’s Banco Azteca, said he was pushing his country to accept the cryptocurrency and encouraged his Twitter followers to buy it. “Me and my bank are working to be the first bank in Mexico to accept #Bitcoin,” he tweeted Sunday. Pliego
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EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra visited El Paso on Monday to see a migrant detention facility at the Fort Bliss military post which has drawn criticism from advocates who have described unsafe conditions and allegations of abuse toward some of the children housed there. Becerra, in a call
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REYNOSA, Mexico — Eight more suspects have been arrested for alleged involvement in gun attacks earlier this month that killed 19 people in the northern Mexico border city of Reynosa, which is across from McAllen, Texas, officials said Sunday. The arrests brought to 13 the number of people detained over the June 19 attacks that left four
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BAJA CALIFORNIA, Mexico — John Langley, the creator and executive producer of the reality television series “Cops,” died after experiencing a heart attack while competing in an off-road race in Baja California, Mexico, over the weekend, the race’s organizer said. Langley, 78, died around 3 p.m. Saturday during the Coast to Coast Ensenada-San Felipe 250,
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EL PASO, Texas — Even before Vice President Kamala Harris’s plane landed in El Paso on Friday morning, protesters had already started to gather outside the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s central processing center that Harris was slated to visit. Many of the pro-Trump demonstrators in the gathering crowd blew whistles, chanted and jeered as
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Vice President Kamala Harris visited El Paso on Friday to tour the Borderland, following dogged GOP criticism for not having visited the U.S.-Mexico border, and lamented political “infighting” over immigration. “I’m glad to be here. It was always the plan to come here. And I think we’re going to have a
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SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — A migrant woman who was stuck atop the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Sunland Park had to be rescued by firefighters on Friday. The rescue effort came during the morning hours as Vice President Kamala Harris was visiting the Borderland to examine and discuss immigration issues. Fire crews said they used
Continue Reading CNN staff If you’re planning to travel to Mexico, here’s what you’ll need to know and expect if you want to visit during the Covid-19 pandemic. The basics Mexico is open to travelers. There is no need to provide a negative PCR test or quarantine on arrival, though most resorts ask guests to fill out
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — The White House provided the first details late Thursday of Vice President Kamala Harris’ planned Friday visit to the Borderland as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to develop a strategy to address the “root causes” of an ongoing migrant surge at the U.S.-Mexico border. It will be the vice president’s first
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DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa will send up to 30 state police officers on a two-week deployment to Texas after Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds agreed to a request from GOP governors to help fight crime at the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said Thursday. A statement from the Iowa Department of Public Safety did not say when the deployment of the
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AUSTIN, Texas — Over the span of about a week, Texas received $459,000 in private donations for the state’s planned wall at the southern border, the governor’s office said. This comes after Gov. Greg Abbott said he would reallocate $250 million in state funds as a “down payment” for the project — while crowdfunding some of the remaining
Continue Reading By Rose Montanez, KVIA ABC-7 EL PASO, Texas — El Pasoans Fighting Hunger is now collecting donations that will benefit the migrant children housed at Fort Bliss. The food bank is calling for the community to donate specific items including Spanish language books, board games, arts and crafts supplies, as well as sports equipment and
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SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — Caught off-guard by intense summer heat and rugged terrain in Culberson and Hudspeth counties, officials said they found a dead teenage boy but were able to rescue numerous other migrants in need of medical attention over the past 48 hours. Word of the west Texas encounters came from the Texas Rescue
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Vice President Kamala Harris will visit El Paso on Friday to examine conditions along the U.S.-Mexico border for her first time in office as part of a Biden administration effort to contain migration, the White House announced in a brief statement. “Earlier this year, the President asked the Vice President to
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — The chief of the U.S. Border Patrol says he is leaving his job after less than two years in a position that lies in the crosshairs of polarizing political debate. Rodney Scott wrote to agents that he will be reassigned. He said Wednesday that he had received a directed reassignment letter, which
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EL PASO, Texas — The number of undocumented immigrants injured or dying as they try to cross into the U.S. is much higher than during the last migrant surge in 2019. According to U.S. Border Patrol numbers, in 2019 agents saw a total of five migrant rescues. That number went up in 2020 to 40
Continue Reading SAN DIEGO, California — Thousands of asylum-seekers whose claims were dismissed or denied under a Trump administration policy that forced them to wait in Mexico for their court hearings will be allowed to return for another chance at humanitarian protection, the U.S. Homeland Security Department said Tuesday. Registration begins Wednesday for asylum-seekers who were subject
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EL PASO, Texas — A U.S. Border Patrol vehicle crashed during an incident Tuesday morning in west El Paso. First-responders said there were no injuries reported in the crash which happened just after 10 a.m. along Country Club Road near Doniphan Drive. There was no word on what led up to the crash; a Border
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