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 Sunland Park, but this time with deadly consequences. Officials told ABC-7 that a 20-year-old man was found unconscious and died after attempts at CPR were unable to revive
Continue Reading
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 Patrol van being driven by an agent who was transporting detained migrants. Officials said the van was run off the road along Interstate 10 westbound near mile marker 143, which
Continue Reading
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, police chiefs, county judges and mayors. At the event, Abbott said he would soon unveil plans to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall in Texas, although he did not provide
Continue Reading
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Texas officials are investigating after newly released body camera footage obtained by the non-profit news outlet Reveal showed a deputy tasing a migrant teenage boy at a shelter. The footage, which the outlet said it obtained under a Texas state records law from the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, showed a deputy
Continue Reading
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 Teresa on Wednesday, more agents were saving another pair of migrants from drowning in an El Paso canal along the border. The increase in migrant rescues comes
Continue Reading
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 her husband run his multi-billion-dollar criminal empire. Emma Coronel Aispuro pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington on Thursday to three criminal charges at a plea agreement hearing. She wore
Continue Reading
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. The migrants were from different parts of Central America. They were mostly men, but there were a few women and some children as well. The migrants said they could
Continue Reading
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — Firefighters and U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued two Ecuadorian migrant women Wednesday afternoon overcome by heat in a remote desert area of Sunland Park along the U.S.-Mexico border after illegally crossing. The search and rescue operation unfolded off of Strauss Road near the Santa Teresa port of entry after a
Continue Reading
EL PASO, Texas — A large group of recently expelled migrants that gathered near one of the international crossings from Juarez into El Paso prompted authorities to shut it down for about an hour Wednesday afternoon. The closure of the Paso Del Norte bridge between about 1 and 2 p.m. was caused by “a security
Continue Reading
FORT BLISS, Texas — The Border Network for Human Rights called for the release of unaccompanied minors at the migrant facility inside Fort Bliss during a protest and vigil on Tuesday. It comes after BNHR says over 20 former employees at the facility talked about the conditions at Fort Bliss for the minors. BNHR says
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Vice President Kamala Harris closed out her first foreign trip Tuesday as she visited Mexico and met with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Harris is telling the poor and threatened populations of Latin America that the United States has “the capacity to give people a sense of hope” in the region
Continue Reading
When Ever López walked across the stage at his North Carolina high school graduation, he became the first of his immediate family to graduate high school. But the Asheboro High School student, who had the Mexican flag draped over his shoulders as he walked the stage, says he was denied his diploma on graduation day
Continue Reading CANCUN, Mexico — U.S. border authorities have been deployed to assist Mexican immigration officials in spotting travelers arriving in Cancun, Mexico, with the intention of continuing to the U.S. southern border, according to two Department of Homeland Security officials. The effort is part of a multi-pronged approach to stem the flow of migration to the
Continue Reading Vice President Kamala Harris pushed back on criticism that she hasn’t visited the US-Mexico border in an interview aired on Tuesday by arguing that her travel has been limited during the early days of the Biden administration. In an interview that took place in Guatemala during Harris’ first foreign trip since taking office, NBC’s Lester
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — The Biden administration is preparing to reunite 29 migrant families who were separated at the US-Mexico border under then-President Donald Trump’s controversial “zero tolerance” immigration policy, according to a newly released report. The highly anticipated report contains few new details on the Trump-era separations known to have occurred between July 2017 and
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — The Biden administration is threatening to pursue legal action if Texas Gov. Greg Abbott doesn’t rescind his order shutting down federally funded shelters that house migrant children who cross the U.S.-Mexico border without their parents. The deputy general counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sent a letter obtained
Continue Reading
ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico — The recent crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border is gaining national attention because of the influx of immigrants fleeing their home countries. In order to get to the root of the problem, Vice President Kamala Harris is making her first international trip to Mexico and Guatemala.“It’s going to be an honest and
Continue Reading ASHEBORO, North Carolina — A North Carolina high school student said he was denied his diploma at his graduation ceremony for wearing a Mexican flag over his gown. Ever Lopez draped a Mexican flag over his blue gown at Asheboro High School’s graduation ceremony last week. Video footage from the ceremony shows the principal ask
Continue Reading GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala — Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday emphasized the need to restore hope for residents of struggling Central American nations to help address the increase in migration from the region as she pleaded with them not to make the dangerous trek in the first major test of her diplomatic skills on a three-day foreign
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court held on Monday that the government can block non-citizens who are in the U.S. under a program that temporarily protects them from deportation in certain situations from applying for a green card if they entered the country unlawfully. Justice Elena Kagan wrote for a unanimous court. “Today’s decision
Continue Reading MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexico’s ruling political coalition is projected to lose its qualified majority in the lower house of Congress after a poor showing in midterm elections Sunday, according to initial figures released by the government. The defeat will prevent President Andrés Manuel López Obrador from passing major legislative and constitutional reforms without the help
Continue Reading
EL PASO, Texas — El Paso chief Border Patrol agent Gloria Chavez was gracious enough to sit down with the ABC-7 Sunday Xtra host Saul Saenz for a one-on-one interview. But after the interview, the discussion with Chavez continued, with the chief pointing out the number of unaccompanied migrant children apprehended could break records this year. “Right, the children
Continue Reading CALIPATRIA, California — More than 600 small earthquakes have been recorded this weekend in a rural area near the Salton Sea in Southern California, with the largest having a magnitude of 5.3, a US Geological Survey geophysicist told CNN. Geophysicist Randy Baldwin said 603 temblors with a magnitude of at least 1 happened in the
Continue Reading El Salvador could become the first county to adopt bitcoin as a legal tender, Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele announced in a video recording shown during the Bitcoin 2021 conference held in Miami. “Next week I will send to congress a bill that will make bitcoin a legal tender,” Bukele said, according to the conference’s organizer,
Continue Reading Kamala Harris leaves for Latin America on Sunday under intense political pressure to stem the flow of migrants to the US, with lots of people asking what she’s doing heading out on her first foreign trip as vice president before releasing a comprehensive strategy. The answer, according to people close to her, is that she’s
Continue Reading
COAHUILA, MEXICO — The body of one miner was found Saturday at a small coal mine in a northern Mexico border state that flooded and collapsed, leaving six miners still missing. There had been complaints for years about unsafe conditions at mines in the area. The federal civil defense office said one miner’s body had
Continue Reading CALIPATRIA, California — Over 150 small earthquakes have been recorded Saturday in a rural area near the Salton Sea in Southern California, with the largest having a magnitude of 5.3, a U.S. Geological Survey seismologist told CNN. “There have been 152 earthquakes measuring all magnitudes,” said seismologist Paul Caruso, speaking by phone from Golden, Colorado.
Continue Reading CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — Mexico announced Friday a plan to vaccinate border cities against Covid-19 in the hopes of ending crossing restrictions this summer. During a morning news conference, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the U.S. was donating a million Johnson & Johnson one-dose vaccines to Mexico. The president said the doses will
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — Facing a backup of tens of thousands of migrants stranded at the U.S.-Mexico border, the Biden administration is betting on a technological fix: a mobile app. In recent weeks, U.S. border officials have taken an unprecedented step, quietly deploying a new app, CBP One, which relies on controversial facial recognition, geolocation and
Continue Reading
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — San Antonio police are looking for dozens of people who escaped from an 18-wheeler, parked on a road outside of town, in what’s believed to be a case of human smuggling. Residents said they opened the tractor-trailer after hearing loud banging about 2:30 a.m. on Friday and found 60-to-80 people inside
Continue Reading