More than 150 quakes shake California-Mexico border; largest registers 5.3 magnitude
CALIPATRIA, California — Over 150 small earthquakes have been recorded Saturday in a rural area near the Salton Sea in Southern California,…
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Mexico to vaccinate border cities in hopes of lifting U.S. crossing restrictions
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — Mexico announced Friday a plan to vaccinate border cities against Covid-19 in the hopes of ending crossing restrictions…
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Biden administration quietly deploys facial recognition to process asylum seekers
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…
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Up to 80 people found inside trailer in San Antonio human smuggling case
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…
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Border Patrol says 19-year-old U.S. citizen who ran Hudspeth checkpoint shot self
UPDATE, June 4: U.S. Border Patrol officials now say a man who died after refusing to stop at the Sierra Blanca checkpoint earlier this week took his…
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Massive sinkhole in Mexico grows, threatens to swallow house
SANTA MARIA ZACATEPEC, Mexico — A huge sinkhole some 60 meters in diameter has appeared in farmers’ fields in central Mexico,…
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Video said to show 5-year-old abandoned at Juarez-El Paso border
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A French news agency reported Thursday that it had obtained cellphone video of a 5-year-old boy being abandoned along the…
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El Paso, other border counties lead Covid-19 vaccination efforts across Texas
EL PASO, Texas — Texas counties on the U.S.-Mexico border that once dealt with the brunt of the load of Covid-19 are now outpacing the state…
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Fired workers claim poor conditions at Fort Bliss migrant shelter
FORT BLISS, Texas — A group of disgruntled employees working at the Fort Bliss shelter for migrant children, gave ABC-7 some insight Wednesday…
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Mexican Nat’l Guard border mission still a concern 2 years later
(Editor’s note: This story was produced as part of the Puente News Collaborative, a bi-national partnership of news organizations in Ciudad…
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Mexico raids building project next to Teotihuacán pyramids
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexico sent in 250 National Guard troops and 60 police officers to seize land next to the pre-Hispanic ruins of Teotihuacán…
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Samaniego seeks to vaccinate Juarez before border reopens
EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego is in talks with Ciudad Juarez officials to open a vaccination hub in El Paso that would…
Continue Reading Biden formally ends Trump’s ‘remain in Mexico’ asylum policy
WASHINGTON, DC — The Biden administration formally ended the Trump-era policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico until their court dates in…
Continue Reading Vice President Harris’ team tries to distance her from fraught situation at the border
WASHINGTON, DC — In the weeks since the President asked her to take charge of immigration from Central America, Vice President Kamala Harris…
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Mexican cartels are now hunting down police at their homes
GUANAJUATO, Mexico — The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico’s “hugs, not bullets” policy with a policy of its own:…
Continue Reading Congresswoman, urges caseworkers at Ft. Bliss Migrant Facility to pick up the pace
EL PASO, Texas– The shelter at Fort Bliss meant to house migrant children, has El Paso Congresswoman Veronica Escobar concerned for the children in…
Continue Reading Texas Gov. Abbott says drug trafficking across border is at ‘crisis’ level
FORT WORTH, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott called the smuggling of fentanyl across the Texas-Mexico border a “crisis” and said Thursday that…
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Watch: El Paso firefighters rescue pregnant migrant woman from top of border barrier
EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Customs and Border Protection released video Tuesday afternoon, showing a 23-year-old pregnant migrant woman who had to be…
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‘Totally different situation’: El Paso County Judge concerned over Juarez vaccination rate
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso is reporting several positive Covid-19 trends. Hospitalizations and the county’s positivity rate have been…
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‘Life in your hands’: Migrants must clear high asylum hurdles
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — All Isela can do is hope. She’s one of dozens of migrants who have found temporary refuge at the Buen Samaritano shelter in…
Continue Reading Lawyers say Ft. Bliss ‘warehousing’ migrant kids by the thousands
FORT BLISS, Texas — The shelter at Fort Bliss feels more like a warehouse, according to people who have been there, with rows and rows of bunk…
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WATCH: GOP’s Border Security Caucus tours El Paso conditions
EL PASO, Texas — A Republican congressional delegation made up of members of the Border Security Caucus visited El Paso on Monday to examine…
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Chaparral trio charged by feds with taking migrants hostage
CHAPARRAL, New Mexico – Federal prosecutors on Monday charged three Chaparral residents with operating a human smuggling operation that allegedly…
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Man seriously hurt in Sunland Park border wall fall; 2nd in week
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — For the second time in a week, a person fell off the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Sunland Park on Saturday and was…
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Lower Valley farmers discuss migrant influx with congressional delegation
EL PASO, Texas — Farmers from El Paso’s Lower Valley shared their concerns about the influx of migrants along the southern border with Texas…
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1 dead, 15 rescued in smuggling boat incident near San Diego
SAN DIEGO, California — One person is confirmed dead after an incident involving a suspected smuggling vessel off the coast of San Diego…
Continue Reading Biden administration shuts down 2 immigration detention centers under scrutiny for poor conditions
WASHINGTON, DC — The Biden administration announced Thursday that it will stop detaining immigrants at two detention centers that came under…
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Migrant woman seriously hurt in fall off Sunland Park border wall
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — A migrant woman was severely hurt Wednesday when she fell off a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Sunland Park.…
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Mexico says border travel restrictions with U.S. due to Covid now extended through June 21
WASHINGTON, DC — Travel restrictions across the U.S.-Mexico border have now been extended through at least June 21, according to Mexico’s foreign…
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Lawsuit alleges New Mexico guards pepper-sprayed detained asylum seekers
ESTANCIA, New Mexico — One year ago Monday, more than 20 asylum seekers were on a hunger strike, protesting Covid-19 safety conditions at the…
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