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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Microsoft plans $1.5M investment in Borderland; efforts target both sides of border & military
$1.5 million dollars has been pledged for the Borderland by tech giant Microsoft. The Seattle-based company has a vetted interest in the Sun City and…
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At least 14 Mexican police officers killed in ambush by suspected drug cartel gunmen
At least 14 police officers were killed and several others wounded Monday in an ambush by gunmen in the Mexican state of Michoacan, a western region…
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Ladder used by drug smugglers found along border fence separating Juarez and Santa Teresa
Federal agents with Mexico’s National Guard discovered a ladder Sunday apparently used to cross over the U.S.-Mexico border fence separating…
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2 dead, 5 hurt when family’s van plunges off Camino Real bridge near Juarez
A van carrying a family on a trip crashed along the Camino Real bridge just southwest of Juarez and then plunged down an embankment into an empty…
Continue Reading Dangerous stretch of Rio Grande sees drowning deaths triple, water rescues up by 1,000%
Newly released data reveals a dramatic shift in the region along the Rio Grande over the past year — and offers a window into the human toll of…
Continue Reading FEMA begins reimbursing Borderland non-profits who helped migrants
Federal officials began Friday to reimburse organizations that fed, sheltered and transported migrants released this year in communities near the…
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McAleenan resigns as acting Homeland Security Secretary: ‘The El Paso shooting hit close to home’
Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of homeland security since April and the fourth person to serve in that post since the Trump presidency began,…
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160 bodies buried in mass grave in Juarez
About 160 bodies have been buried in a mass grave in Juarez. The Juarez Medical Examiner’s Office designated them as unclaimed. The bodies were…
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Texas judge rules Trump’s emergency wall declaration is unlawful in suit filed by El Paso County
A federal judge in Texas ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration to build a border wall is unlawful and…
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Husband of El Paso’s Border Patrol chief facing charges of sex assault and kidnapping
A U.S. Border Patrol agent, whose wife heads the El Paso sector of the agency, is facing charges he kidnapped and sexually assaulted a junior agent…
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Nearly 1 million migrants apprehended along Mexico border in fiscal year 2019, most in over a decade
The number of migrants encountered at the Mexican border during the 2019 budget year is likely to be nearly 1 million, one of the highest figures on…
Continue Reading Trump administration to collect DNA from migrants crossing the border, immigrants in detention
The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to implement collection of DNA from migrants who’ve been arrested, according the…
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Trump wanted to shoot border-crossing migrants in the legs, White House officials tell NY Times
President Donald Trump suggested shooting migrants in the legs in order to slow them down after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border during a March…
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Juarez mayor to testify on migrants at New Mexico hearing
A key group of New Mexico lawmakers will tour both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border later this week and hear from the mayor of the largest Mexican…
Continue Reading San Elizario residents evacuated after spewing pipe failure on Mexican side of border
An unknown number of residents in a San Elizario neighborhood were evacuated Sunday morning after an apparent dangerous pipe failure that occurred…
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