On the Border Archives

At least 14 Mexican police officers killed in ambush by suspected drug cartel gunmen

October 14, 2019 5:55 PM KVIA ABC-7

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…

Ladder used by drug smugglers found along border fence separating Juarez and Santa Teresa

October 13, 2019 7:43 PM KVIA ABC-7

Federal agents with Mexico’s National Guard discovered a ladder Sunday apparently used to cross over the U.S.-Mexico border fence separating…

2 dead, 5 hurt when family’s van plunges off Camino Real bridge near Juarez

October 13, 2019 7:41 PM KVIA ABC-7

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…

Dangerous stretch of Rio Grande sees drowning deaths triple, water rescues up by 1,000%

October 12, 2019 3:05 PM KVIA ABC-7

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…

FEMA begins reimbursing Borderland non-profits who helped migrants

October 11, 2019 8:49 PM KVIA ABC-7

Federal officials began Friday to reimburse organizations that fed, sheltered and transported migrants released this year in communities near the…

McAleenan resigns as acting Homeland Security Secretary: ‘The El Paso shooting hit close to home’

October 11, 2019 6:33 PM KVIA ABC-7

Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of homeland security since April and the fourth person to serve in that post since the Trump presidency began,…

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…