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 and children in northern Mexico, prosecutors said. Federal prosecutors met with members of the extended LeBaron family who have lived in northern Mexico for decades. They consider themselves Mormon but
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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 Paso County. On Monday came the dismantling of soft-sided shelters in Tornillo after they were erected last July. Tornillo has a history of shelters being used by
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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 FBI, with plans to expand nationwide. The information would go into a massive criminal database run by the FBI, where it would be held indefinitely. A memo published Monday
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CIUDAD MIER, Tamaulipas — Mexican authorities continued searching Monday for the gunmen responsible for an attack on a sparsely traveled stretch of highway near the Texas border that left a 13-year-old U.S. citizen dead and four relatives wounded. On Saturday night, a family traveling in two vehicles was attacked on a two-lane highway paralleling the
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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, officials said Friday. Agents acting on a tip about a half-dozen people who appeared to have entered illegally from Mexico discovered the drugs in the early morning
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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 memorial service for “K9 Agent Bulder” is tentatively scheduled for the morning of Jan. 15 at the Abundant Living Faith Center in west El
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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 pleaded guilty to federal weapons charges on Thursday. Larry Hopkins, 70, was arrested last April by the FBI in Sunland Park and charged in federal court with being a felon in
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TUCSON, Arizona — U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents for the first time Thursday began turning around migrants seeking asylum in Arizona, sending about 40 of them to a Nogales shelter in Mexico to await immigration court proceedings. The move means asylum-seekers crossing the border through Arizona will no longer be bused to El Paso,
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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 according to data reported by El Diario de Juarez, which says there were only seven days throughout all of last year in which there no homicides. El Diario noted seven
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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 person died Sunday at the Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque while in federal custody. The detainee has been identified only as an Angolan native and French citizen, pending notification of next of
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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 medical screening. Doctors said they were disappointed it took that long to come up with the plan, which is lacking in many details and provides health screenings only
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A group of Central American migrants is under quarantine in a Juarez shelter after a chickenpox outbreak. The shelter itself has now opened its doors. Nearly 800 migrants are housed in the Leona Vicario shelter, where the Mexican federal government cares for Central American asylum seekers sent back by the US to wait in Mexico.
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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 asylum.Fortunately, there are good Samaritans who are trying to help children, most coming from other parts of Mexico, endure cold temperatures. ABC-7 reported last month the number of
Continue Reading 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 “was a Mexican,” police said. Nicole Marie Poole Franklin, 42, was arrested on other charges and Thursday admitted to Clive police she hit the girl with her vehicle on December 9,
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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 charges after he was extradited from Mexico. Ismael Zambada-Imperial pleaded not guilty to the charges in the federal court in San Diego, and his next court hearing
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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 Santa Fe port of entry. With the holidays upon us one group is helping bring a little comfort for the migrants through prayer and the tradition of the Posada.
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed President Donald Trump’s revised North American Free Trade Agreement, with members sending Trump’s foremost legislative priority — just a day after the divided chamber took the historic vote to impeach him — to the Senate. The legislation passed with a bipartisan show of support
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WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Department of State has issued a travel advisory to Mexico because the risk of violent crime – including murders, kidnappings, carjackings and robberies – is “widespread” in some areas. Americans are being warned not to travel to the states of Colima, Guerrero, Michoacán, Sinaloa and Tamaulipas due to crime, according
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EL PASO, Texas — Parents at an elementary school were attending a Christmas program Tuesday evening when suddenly law enforcement swarmed the school. Parents told ABC-7 that they were in line to enter the Christmas program at Marion Manor when suddenly a small group of migrants ran into the school with Border Patrol agents chasing
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EL PASO, Texas — Homeowners in a northeast El Paso neighborhood were shocked to learn illegal weapons were possibly being manufactured and sold out of one of their neighbor’s homes, destined for Mexico. “It saddens me but I’m not surprised. Why’s that? Number one, there’s money in it. Number two. I think that people that
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — The U.S. Border Patrol’s tactical unit is mourning the loss of one of their own K-9 agents after he was shot and killed during a confrontation in northeast El Paso Tuesday morning. Bulder was a 5-year-old Belgian Malinois that had been serving with a Special Border Patrol Tactical unit for a
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Despite reassurances from the federal government, some members of Congress say they worry migrant children won’t be safe from the flu this season. In the last flu season, three children died of the flu while in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection. As in many areas around the United States this year, the
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP’s Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Deserts gardens invites you to join them for Las Posadas at the Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens on Saturday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., in conjunction with the closing celebration of the Uncaged Art exhibition. Visitors will have an opportunity to see Uncaged Art
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EL PASO, Texas — A woman who reportedly fell into a canal situated off the Rio Grande in west El Paso was rescued Wednesday night by firefighters and Border Patrol agents. A massive search effort was launched about 8:30 p.m. for what was initially dispatched as a person believed to be in need of a
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Some Las Cruces businesses and residents are receiving threats from phone callers apparently posing as drug “cartel” members and demanding money, authorities said. Police issued a warning Wednesday about the ongoing scam involving telephone threats telling the receiver to pay up or face the consequences of being physically harmed. There is no
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EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Customs and Border Protection is looking for new officers and agents. CBP is holding hiring seminars this week where those who are interested in a career with the agency can get information on what it takes to become an Border Patrol agent or a Customs officer. The seminars are on
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — A federal judge in El Paso has blocked the Trump administration from using billions of dollars in Pentagon funds for the construction of the border wall. Judge David Briones of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas said Tuesday that the administration cannot use military construction funds to
Continue Reading SAN DIEGO, California — Several Chinese migrants trying to enter the U.S. from Mexico were hiding in a washer, a dresser and other furniture, federal authorities said. Border agents searched a moving truck at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego when they found 11 Chinese migrants hiding inside “various pieces of furniture,”
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TORNILLO, Texas — An active scene at the border when Mexican National Guard forces and federal police cleared what they believe was a high-traffic illegal entry point into the U.S. The staging area was discovered this week at the border near Tornillo. Two extendable aluminum ladders and wooden ladders were found among other equipment in
Continue Reading DALLAS, Texas — Mexico’s former public security secretary has been arrested in the United States and charged in a drug trafficking conspiracy that involved taking millions of dollars in bribes from imprisoned drug cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Genaro Garcia Luna, 51, who was secretary of public security from 2006
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