New child migrant shelter being built in Montana Vista area of El Paso County
MONTANA VISTA, Texas — A large migrant shelter facility for children is being built on 25 acres in the Montana Vista area in El Paso County,…
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ABC-7 Xtra examines growing Mexican drug cartel violence
EL PASO, Texas — According to the experts, acts of cartel violence are on the rise. This past week, 14 Americans with dual citizenship were…
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Cartel expert: Juarez families should be ‘extremely concerned’ about recent uptick of violence
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Violence has surged in Juarez this week, with Juarez media reporting 21 people have been killed and 23 vehicles burned since…
Continue Reading ‘Mexicles’ gang members arrested after at least 9 killed in Juarez vehicle fires
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – A “night of terror” blamed on the ‘Mexicles’ drug gang left at least 9 dead and others wounded as numerous vehicles were set…
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Asylum seekers live in fear at Juarez-El Paso border as Mexican cartel violence flares
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexican families camped out at the base of the Paso del Norte Bridge after fleeing their homes from drug cartel violence say…
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California murder suspects who escaped jail were captured crossing U.S.-Mexico border
Two murder suspects who escaped from a Northern California jail by cutting a hole in a ceiling over the weekend were captured as they tried to cross…
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Robot helps Border Patrol with El Paso community outreach
EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has a very special Border Patrol agent to help with community outreach. Agent S.A.N.T.O.S. (Say…
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Mexico telecommunications signals interfering with police, hospital and military cell networks in El Paso
EL PASO, Texas — Concerns are reaching to the highest government levels in the U.S and Mexico to have a critical issue fixed to prevent a possible…
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Border agent kills man in Sunland Park shootout while investigating ‘possible illegal border crossing’
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man during a shootout in Sunland Park on Monday morning following word of a…
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Borderland spiritual leaders gather for annual mass along U.S./Mexico border
EL PASO, Texas — An annual tradition on the U.S./Mexico border. The message uniting communities, not dividing them. Spiritual leaders…
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Washington Post: Border agents say smugglers in Mexico are sawing through parts of Trump’s border wall
Smuggling gangs in Mexico have been able to breach new sections of President Donald Trump’s border wall in recent months, according to a new…
Continue Reading Trump suggests Chad Wolf is acting Department of Homeland Security chief
President Donald Trump appeared Friday to name Chad Wolf, an official at the Department of Homeland Security, as the agency’s acting secretary,…
Continue Reading Cold weather poses threat to border migrants camped out in tents
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — As temperatures keep dropping, a new concern is rising: how to keep Mexican migrants safe from the cold. There are around…
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Police say sex offender dad took young sons from Las Cruces daycare and fled to Juarez
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Authorities in Las Cruces continued the search Wednesday for two brothers believed to have been taken from daycare by their…
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Latino artist wins prestigious portrait competition for depiction of a migrant woman
The video begins with the sound of a guitar strumming and a voice singing in Spanish. The main character is sketched quickly, beginning with her…
Continue Reading Immigration hardliner resigns from Department of Homeland Security
Immigration hardliner Julie Kirchner, Department of Homeland Security citizenship and immigration ombudsman, offered her resignation to President…
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Water shortage leads to restrictions at Sierra Blanca immigration detention facility
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — A regional water shortage blamed on the depletion of area tanks has resulted in water restrictions being imposed at the West…
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Separated families return for ‘Hugs Not Walls’ on U.S./Mexico border
EL PASO, Texas — The Border Network for Human Rights held their annual “Hugs Not Walls” event in the middle of the Rio Grande on the…
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42 bodies found near Mexican resort of Rocky Point
ROCKY POINT, Mexico — Volunteer searchers say they have found more than three dozen bodies over the past three days in the desert near the Mexican…
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13 migrants found at Sierra Blanca border checkpoint hiding in cramped truck sleeper cabin
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — Border Patrol agents said Friday they found 13 smuggled migrants in the cramped confines of a sleeper cabin of a…
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‘One hell of a chase’ through Hudspeth, Culberson counties ends in crash and arrest
VAN HORN, Texas — A driver who ran the Border Patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca led authorities on a chase Wednesday night through two counties…
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3-year-old boy caught in crossfire, wounded by armed robbers at Juarez funeral
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – A 3-year-old boy was caught in the crossfire and seriously wounded when two armed men opened fire at a funeral in…
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Border Patrol catches 21 migrants entering El Paso through storm drain system in Segundo Barrio
EL PASO, Texas – A U.S. Border Patrol raid in El Paso’s historic Segundo Barrio neighborhood on the city’s south side late Friday night resulted…
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3-year-old boy caught in crossfire, wounded by armed robbers at Juarez funeral
A 3-year-old boy was caught in the crossfire and seriously wounded when two armed men opened fire at a funeral in Juarez, Mexican media outlets…
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Border Patrol catches 21 migrants entering El Paso through storm drain system in Segundo Barrio
A U.S. Border Patrol raid in El Paso’s historic Segundo Barrio neighborhood on the city’s south side late Friday night resulted in 21…
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Border Patrol agents seize over $850,000 in meth from car at Alamogordo checkpoint
U.S. Border Patrol agents in Alamogordo seized over $850,000 worth of methamphetamine from one vehicle at a checkpoint earlier this week, officials…
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Why did Mexican soldiers let El Chapo’s son free? Outgunned in firefight that left 8 dead, 20 hurt
Mexican security forces aborted their capture of a son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman after finding themselves…
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Drug lord El Chapo’s eldest son captured, but then released by Mexican military after gun battles
The eldest son of “El Chapo,” the jailed notorious Mexican drug kingpin, was captured by Mexico’s military on Thursday, but then…
Continue Reading U.S. Border Patrol’s growing presence at hospitals in Texas, Florida creating fear
U.S. Border Patrol agents followed a 10-year-old immigrant with cerebral palsy to a Texas hospital and took her into custody after the surgery. She…
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‘Everything goes unpunished’: Families of slain Mexican police angry, Mexico’s president defensive
Grieving relatives of 13 police officers killed in an apparent cartel ambush gathered outside a funeral home Tuesday, many of them angry at the…
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