On the Border Archives

U.S. Senate approves Canada-Mexico trade deal, goes to Trump for signature

January 16, 2020 10:06 AM CNN

WASHINGTON, DC — Senators of both parties came together Thursday morning to pass President Donald Trump’s foremost legislative priority…

Memorial service held for Border Patrol dog killed in line of duty in El Paso

January 15, 2020 9:56 AM Mauricio Casillas

EL PASO, Texas — A memorial service was held Wednesday for Bulder, the 5-year-old Belgian Malinois U.S. Border Patrol canine, who was killed during…

Mexico City subway says pee causes escalator breakdowns

January 15, 2020 10:25 AM Associated Press

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Travelers on the Mexico City subway system often blame authorities for broken-down escalators at subway stops, but Metro…

‘I saw them shoot the guys from behind,’ says witness to Juarez bar shooting that killed El Paso man

January 14, 2020 9:51 PM Shelby Montgomery

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Two people were gunned down over the weekend at a Juarez bar. On Tuesday, it was disclosed that one of the victims was a…

House Judiciary Committee to investigate policy that ships asylum seekers to Mexico

January 14, 2020 4:15 PM KVIA ABC-7

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. House Judiciary Committee plans to investigate the Department of Homeland Security’s migrant protection protocols (MPP),…

Trump considers diverting billions more in Pentagon funds to build border wall

January 14, 2020 9:06 AM CNN

WASHINGTON, DC — The Trump administration is considering diverting around $7.2 billion in additional Pentagon funding for border wall…

Mexico can’t sell presidential jet, tries odd sales pitches

January 14, 2020 12:40 PM Associated Press

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador has made selling off the luxurious presidential jet a centerpiece of his…

Boy in Mexico school shooting used grandfather’s guns

January 13, 2020 1:47 PM Associated Press

MEXICO CITY, Mexico — An 11-year-old boy who killed his teacher and himself and wounded six others in a northern Mexico school shooting used his…

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Mexico’s president admits Chihuahua has ‘homicide problem’ during Juarez visit

January 10, 2020 6:43 PM Julio-Cesar Chavez

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obador visited Juarez on Friday, holding a press conference at a military garrison,…

Administration touts 100th mile of border wall under Trump

January 10, 2020 4:13 PM Associated Press

YUMA, Arizona — Trump administration officials on Friday touted the 100th mile (161st kilometer) of border wall to be built since the president…

Texas governor to reject new refugees; 1st state to opt out of resettlement program

January 10, 2020 1:42 PM Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas will no longer accept the resettlement of new refugees, becoming the first state known to do so under a recent Trump…

Fathers say their children were abused at foster homes after being separated at US-Mexico border

January 10, 2020 4:34 PM CNN

Two fathers who were separated from their children at the border are suing the US government for $12 million, saying their children were abused at…

U.S. border arrests drop for 7th straight month

January 9, 2020 8:29 PM Associated Press

EL PASO, Teasx — The number of people arrested or stopped entering the United States on the Mexico border fell for a seventh straight month in…

Guatemala president says no deal to send Mexicans there

January 8, 2020 3:50 PM Associated Press

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AP) — Outgoing Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales said Wednesday his government has not agreed to receive Mexicans who…

Mexico says 40 suspects identified in killing of 9 Americans

January 7, 2020 4:09 PM Associated Press

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) — More than 40 suspects have now been identified in connection with the Nov. 4 slaughter of nine U.S. dual-national women…

Tornillo ‘tent city’ migrant shelters once again taken down

January 6, 2020 7:31 PM Saul Saenz

TORNILLO, Texas — The year 2020 in Tornillo is starting pretty much the same way 2019 started in that small border town just east of Fabens in El…

U.S. to start collecting DNA from people detained at border

January 6, 2020 1:26 PM Associated Press

HOUSTON, Texas (AP) — The U.S. government on Monday launched a pilot program to collect DNA from people in immigration custody and submit it to the…

American family attacked in Mexico; child killed just south of Texas

January 5, 2020 6:04 PM Associated Press

CIUDAD MIER, Tamaulipas — Mexican authorities continued searching Monday for the gunmen responsible for an attack on a sparsely traveled stretch of…

400 pounds of marijuana seized from smugglers in Van Horn by Border Patrol agents

January 3, 2020 8:10 PM Jim Parker

VAN HORN, Texas — Four hundred pounds of marijuana being hauled into the U.S. for the New Year was seized by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Van Horn,…

Memorial service set for Border Patrol dog killed last month in northeast El Paso raid

January 3, 2020 11:52 AM KVIA ABC-7

EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso sector of the U.S. Border Patrol is preparing to bury one of their own, a police dog killed in the line of duty. The…

Former Sunland Park border militia leader pleads guilty to federal weapons charges

January 2, 2020 4:25 PM Julio-Cesar Chavez

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — The leader of an armed civilian group that had been stopping undocumented migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in early 2019…

Migrants from Arizona will no longer be bused to El Paso

January 2, 2020 2:26 PM Jim Parker

TUCSON, Arizona — U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents for the first time Thursday began turning around migrants seeking asylum in Arizona,…

2019 was 4th deadliest year in Juarez; nearly 1,500 slain

January 2, 2020 12:40 PM KVIA ABC-7

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Ciudad Juarez saw almost 1,500 homicides in 2019, making it the fourth most deadly year in history for the city. That’s…

ICE detainee dies in custody at a New Mexico hospital

January 1, 2020 6:03 PM CNN

A 40-year-old native of Angola has died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in New Mexico, the agency said in a statement Wednesday. The…

Long-awaited CBP plan for migrant health screenings is ‘bare bones,’ doctor says

January 1, 2020 6:10 AM CNN

More than a year after migrants in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection began to die, the agency released a plan on Tuesday to improve…

Chickenpox outbreak strikes at Mexican migrant shelter

December 27, 2019 5:38 PM Julio-Cesar Chavez

A group of Central American migrants is under quarantine in a Juarez shelter after a chickenpox outbreak. The shelter itself has now opened its…

Juarez migrant camps are getting smaller, migrants leaving for various reasons

December 23, 2019 6:29 PM Saul Saenz

Juarez, Mexico (KVIA) – Migrant camps in Juarez near the El Paso ports of entry are getting smaller as some people are giving up hope of gaining…

Iowa woman charged with attempted murder; allegedly ran over 14-year-old girl because she ‘was a Mexican’

December 20, 2019 6:47 PM CNN

CLIVE, Iowa — An Iowa woman was charged with attempted murder after running over a 14-year-old girl, saying she did so because the teenager…

Mexico extradites son of Sinaloa cartel founder to U.S.

December 20, 2019 7:46 PM Associated Press

SAN DIEGO, California (AP) — A son of one of the founders of the Sinaloa drug cartel on Friday appeared in a U.S. court on trafficking and other…

Posada tradition brings comfort to asylum seekers waiting to cross into El Paso from Juarez

December 20, 2019 10:54 AM Jerry Najera

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — There are more than 100 asylum seekers camping on the streets of Juarez waiting to come into the U.S. through El Paso’s…