On the Border Archives

160 bodies buried in mass grave in Juarez

October 11, 2019 4:31 PM KVIA ABC-7

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…

Texas judge rules Trump’s emergency wall declaration is unlawful in suit filed by El Paso County

October 11, 2019 1:51 PM KVIA ABC-7

A federal judge in Texas ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration to build a border wall is unlawful and…

Husband of El Paso’s Border Patrol chief facing charges of sex assault and kidnapping

October 8, 2019 7:09 PM KVIA ABC-7

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…

Nearly 1 million migrants apprehended along Mexico border in fiscal year 2019, most in over a decade

October 8, 2019 6:43 PM KVIA ABC-7

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…

Trump administration to collect DNA from migrants crossing the border, immigrants in detention

October 2, 2019 6:09 PM KVIA ABC-7

The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to implement collection of DNA from migrants who’ve been arrested, according the…

Trump wanted to shoot border-crossing migrants in the legs, White House officials tell NY Times

October 1, 2019 5:49 PM KVIA ABC-7

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…

Juarez mayor to testify on migrants at New Mexico hearing

September 30, 2019 6:14 PM KVIA ABC-7

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…

San Elizario residents evacuated after spewing pipe failure on Mexican side of border

September 29, 2019 12:54 PM KVIA ABC-7

An unknown number of residents in a San Elizario neighborhood were evacuated Sunday morning after an apparent dangerous pipe failure that occurred…

Large chunk of border wall funding diverted from tiny Guam

September 28, 2019 7:43 PM KVIA ABC-7

President Donald Trump is raising a large chunk of the money for his border wall with Mexico by deferring several military construction projects…

Legendary crooner José José, Mexican musical icon for half a century, dies at age 71

September 28, 2019 5:25 PM KVIA ABC-7

José José, a Mexican music icon, has died, the Mexican Ministry of Culture said. He was 71. “From the Ministry of Culture we are sorry for…

Federal judge blocks Trump administration’s plan to speed up deportations of undocumented immigrants

September 28, 2019 1:02 PM KVIA ABC-7

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s plan to expand a procedure to speed up deportations for some undocumented immigrants.…

Catholic Bishops witness evolving face of immigrants along the Borderland

September 25, 2019 7:27 PM KVIA ABC-7

Catholic leaders touring the Borderland are witnessing for themselves the changing face of the immigrants trying to gain entry into the U.S. They are…

New Trump administration deal could send migrants back to dangerous Central American countries

September 25, 2019 4:30 PM KVIA ABC-7

As part of its latest attempt to deter migrants from seeking refuge at the U.S. southern border, the Trump administration has initiated a series of…

700 CBP officers returned to port of entry duty in El Paso, elsewhere after assisting Border Patrol

September 25, 2019 1:29 PM KVIA ABC-7

Hundreds of Customs and Border Protection officers who were reassigned in March to assist U.S. Border Patrol agents have returned to their normal…

Violent weekend in Juarez sets new record with over 20 killings in roughly 40 hours

September 23, 2019 8:00 PM KVIA ABC-7

Juarez set a new homicide record over the weekend with more than 20 killings in a roughly 40-hour period, the state attorney general’s office…

El Paso native Ashley Alvidrez wins Miss Mexico 2019

September 22, 2019 6:53 PM KVIA ABC-7

El Paso native and Horizon High School graduate Ashley Alvdrez was crowned the new Miss Mexico over the weekend, a Clint Independent School District…

‘We’ll just jump the river’: Migrants stuck in Juarez frustrated as immigration court backlog grows

September 21, 2019 4:43 AM KVIA ABC-7

Dozens of Mexican families continue to wait to declare asylum as the backlog in immigration cases grows every day. “It’s really hard to…

Border Patrol agent seriously injured after being struck by semi-truck near Sierra Blanca checkpoint

September 18, 2019 12:26 PM KVIA ABC-7

A U.S. Border Patrol agent was seriously injured when he was struck by a semi-truck late Tuesday night near the Sierra Blanca border checkpoint and…

Body found in canal along El Paso’s Border Highway

September 17, 2019 5:01 PM KVIA ABC-7

A person was found dead in a canal along the Border Highway on Tuesday morning. The El Paso Fire Department said the body was discovered near Midway…

Violence pushing migrants to U.S.-Mexico border in Juarez in increasing numbers

September 16, 2019 8:22 PM KVIA ABC-7

Even in a city where authorities are investigating the scattering of body parts all over town, Domingo Beltran Zamora feels safer here than in his…

Congress set to vote on measure opposing Trump plan to divert millions from Fort Bliss to fund wall

September 16, 2019 3:41 PM KVIA ABC-7

The fight over funding for a border wall in Texas and other states appears to be heating up again in Congress this month as lawmakers near a deadline…

1 dead, 2 wounded in Juarez shopping mall shooting

September 15, 2019 9:16 PM KVIA ABC-7

One person was shot and killed, while two others were shot and wounded by a group of armed thieves at a busy north Juarez shopping mall, Mexican…

Border Patrol agent wounded, gunman killed during Texas traffic stop shootout

September 14, 2019 4:13 PM KVIA ABC-7

Authorities say a U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot and wounded during a traffic stop near the Texas border city of Del Rio and that another agent…

Despair among migrants in Juarez after U.S. Supreme Court upholds Trump asylum policy

September 12, 2019 5:29 PM KVIA ABC-7

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s policy of seeking asylum in the first country an immigrant sets foot on. That ruling…

U.S. Supreme Court allows nationwide enforcement of new Trump administration asylum restrictions

September 11, 2019 4:42 PM KVIA ABC-7

The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing nationwide enforcement of a new Trump administration rule that prevents most Central American immigrants from…

Federal appeals court says asylum restrictions not blocked in Texas or New Mexico

September 11, 2019 12:29 PM KVIA ABC-7

A federal appeals court has put on hold a ruling that blocked a Trump administration policy that would prevent migrants from seeking asylum along the…

New ‘Day of the Dead Barbie’ celebrating Dia de los Muertos to be released

September 10, 2019 12:41 PM KVIA ABC-7

There’s about to be a new Barbie doll on the shelves, with flowers on her dress and a skull painted on her face. It’s the Dia de los…

CBP chief says number of border crossers & families with kids falls again

September 9, 2019 3:37 PM KVIA ABC-7

The Trump administration says it saw a 30% drop in the number of people apprehended at the southern U.S. border from July to August, amid summer heat…

Judge restores nationwide injunction on Trump plan to block asylum-seekers

September 9, 2019 12:20 PM KVIA ABC-7

A federal judge in California on Monday again blocked the Trump administration from turning away asylum seekers who pass through another country on…

Dismembered body parts found scattered in multiple Juarez locations amid violence surge

September 8, 2019 4:04 PM KVIA ABC-7

Two men were killed and dismembered with their mutilated remains being found scattered in two separate sections of the city over the weekend,…