Caught on video: Drunk driver crashes into Juarez daycare
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Juarez authorities arrested a driver who they said was drunk and speeding when he crashed his van into a daycare in the…
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Mexico oil firm suffers huge gas pipeline fire in Gulf
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Friday it suffered a rupture in an undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico,…
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Border Patrol raids El Paso & Sunland Park stash houses, finds 65 smuggled migrants
EL PASO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents raided two Borderland stash houses utilized by human smugglers this week, rounding up over five-dozen…
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5 stranded migrant kids rescued from rain-swollen Rio Grande
EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued five unaccompanied migrant teenagers early Thursday, saving them from potentially drowning in the…
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4 child migrant shelters to close in Texas, California – but Fort Bliss site to remain open
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. officials will close four emergency facilities set up to house record numbers of migrant children crossing the Mexican border…
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Border Patrol finds 35 migrants in El Paso stash house, arrests 3 with weapons in Sierra Blanca
EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents had a busy Tuesday in the Borderland as they found dozens of migrants in an El Paso stash house and…
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Trump visits Texas to tour ‘unfinished’ border wall with Gov. Abbott
(Editor’s note: In the video players above, first is Trump and Abbott’s appearance together at the border, in the second player is their complete…
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Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim to rebuild collapsed Mexico City overpass at no cost
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will pay for all the costs needed to rebuild Mexico City’s subway…
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South Dakota deploying National Guard troops to Texas to help at border with use of GOP donor funds
SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Tuesday she will use a donation from a Republican donor to fund a deployment of up…
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Over 1 million migrants arrested at U.S.-Mexico border since October
WASHINGTON, DC — More than 1 million migrants have been arrested after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border since last October, according…
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US Supreme Court says no right to hearing for some immigrants
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the government can indefinitely detain certain immigrants who say they will face…
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Juarez floods after heavy rains, residents advised to stay home
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Heavy rainfall that triggered flash flooding in El Paso had a similar impact across the border in Juarez on Monday afternoon…
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Poll shows Abbott’s fight to keep Trump’s border wall dream alive supported by Texas Republicans
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is pulling out all the stops to build a border wall between his state and Mexico, and a new poll shows…
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Bitcoin climbs on Mexican billionaire’s tweet
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Bitcoin rose Monday after Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the owner of Mexico’s Banco Azteca, said he was pushing his…
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HHS head cites progress during Fort Bliss migrant shelter visit amid protests
EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra visited El Paso on Monday to see a migrant detention facility at the Fort…
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8 new arrests in Mexico border city attacks that killed 19
REYNOSA, Mexico — Eight more suspects have been arrested for alleged involvement in gun attacks earlier this month that killed 19 people in the…
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John Langley, creator of ‘Cops’ TV series, dies at 78 during road race in Mexico
BAJA CALIFORNIA, Mexico — John Langley, the creator and executive producer of the reality television series “Cops,” died after…
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Harris met with jeers from pro-Trump demonstrators on El Paso border trip
EL PASO, Texas — Even before Vice President Kamala Harris’s plane landed in El Paso on Friday morning, protesters had already started to gather…
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WATCH: Vice President Harris in El Paso for border visit
EL PASO, Texas — Vice President Kamala Harris visited El Paso on Friday to tour the Borderland, following dogged GOP criticism for not having…
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Migrant woman stuck atop Sunland Park border wall rescued during Harris visit
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico — A migrant woman who was stuck atop the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Sunland Park had to be rescued by firefighters on…
Continue Reading Travel to Mexico during Covid-19: What you need to know before you go
CNN staff If you’re planning to travel to Mexico, here’s what you’ll need to know and expect if you want to visit during the…
Continue Reading White House offers details of VP Harris’ Friday visit to El Paso
WASHINGTON, DC — The White House provided the first details late Thursday of Vice President Kamala Harris’ planned Friday visit to the Borderland as…
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Iowa joins other states in sending state troopers to Texas to help at border
DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa will send up to 30 state police officers on a two-week deployment to Texas after Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds agreed to…
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Abbott’s border wall project receives $459K in donations so far
AUSTIN, Texas — Over the span of about a week, Texas received $459,000 in private donations for the state’s planned wall at the southern border,…
Continue Reading El Pasoans Fighting Hunger collects books, board games & more for migrant kids housed at Fort Bliss
By Rose Montanez, KVIA ABC-7 EL PASO, Texas — El Pasoans Fighting Hunger is now collecting donations that will benefit the migrant children housed…
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Migrant teen found dead, others hurt but rescued in Culberson & Hudspeth counties
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — Caught off-guard by intense summer heat and rugged terrain in Culberson and Hudspeth counties, officials said they found a…
Continue Reading VP Harris coming to El Paso on Friday for Mexico border visit
EL PASO, Texas — Vice President Kamala Harris will visit El Paso on Friday to examine conditions along the U.S.-Mexico border for her first time in…
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U.S. Border Patrol chief who supported wall is stepping down
WASHINGTON, DC — The chief of the U.S. Border Patrol says he is leaving his job after less than two years in a position that lies in the…
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El Paso border agents say latest migrant surge is deadlier than ever
EL PASO, Texas — The number of undocumented immigrants injured or dying as they try to cross into the U.S. is much higher than during the last…
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U.S. to give another chance to thousands denied asylum under Trump policy
SAN DIEGO, California — Thousands of asylum-seekers whose claims were dismissed or denied under a Trump administration policy that forced them to…
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