Sunland Park Fire Department recovers body found by Border Patrol
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico (KVIA) — The Sunland Park Fire Department recovered a body Sunday evening. The department posted about the recovery on…
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Watch Live: Border Patrol Celebrates Centennial with Parade in El Paso
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Border Patrol is celebrating its centennial with a parade in downtown El Paso. You can watch live coverage of the parade…
Continue Reading Texas Department of Public Safety shares video showing group of migrants attempting to climb border wall in Santa Teresa
UPDATE: ABC-7 reached out to U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sector and to the Texas Department of Public Safety. U.S. Border Patrol said anyone…
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Sunland Park Fire Department rescues woman who fell off border wall
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico (KVIA) — The Sunland Park Fire Department rescued a woman who fell off the border wall today. This happened at the end of…
Continue Reading Border bill fails in Senate for second time, blocked by GOP opposition and Democratic divisions
Originally Published: 23 MAY 24 05:05 ET Updated: 23 MAY 24 14:54 ET By Priscilla Alvarez, Lauren Fox, Clare Foran and Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — A…
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Migrant found dead along Rio Grande has not been identified, authorities say
JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — A migrant was found dead near the Rio Grande last Friday. Officials found the migrant’s body in a spot at the border wall…
Continue Reading Senate border bill exposes Democratic divisions as White House attempts to ramp up pressure on GOP
Originally Published: 23 MAY 24 05:05 ET By Priscilla Alvarez and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — The Senate will vote Thursday on a border security bill…
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Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas will visit El Paso for Friday event
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas will visit El Paso for an event Friday. Mayorkas will arrive Thursday so…
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Large Borderland migrant shelters will close this month without $6 million in donations, officials say
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — Border Servant Corps (BSC) says that its migrant shelters will receive their last guest Sunday, May 26, 2024 and…
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Borderland drivers to be fined if they cut lines to cross to El Paso
JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — This week, long lines to cross from Juárez to El Paso have been reported by Borderland drivers on social media. The…
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Mike Pence visits El Paso for immigration roundtable
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Former Vice President Mike Pence was in El Paso today for a roundtable with Border Patrol discussing immigration. Pence…
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U.S. Border Patrol celebrates 100 years with Centennial Parade in El Paso
EL PASO, TX (KVIA) — The U.S. Border Patrol is marking a century of service with a Centennial Parade in downtown El Paso this weekend on May 25 from…
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Pope Francis talks about efforts to close down El Paso’s Annunciation House
VATICAN CITY (KVIA) — On last night’s episode of 60 Minutes, Pope Francis addressed the lawsuit against El Paso’s Annunciation House. The Texas…
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Mexican and Guatemalan presidents meet at border to discuss migration, security and development
By EDGAR H. CLEMENTE Associated Press TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Guatemala President Bernardo…
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Recent migrant confrontations with border authorities due to frustrations, experts say
JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Several groups of migrants have had recent confrontations with authorities on both sides of the border this week. On…
Continue Reading Biden administration plans to speed up court cases for recent migrant arrivals
Originally Published: 16 MAY 24 16:06 ET Updated: 16 MAY 24 16:54 ET By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration plans to speed up…
Continue Reading Woman wanted by FBI arrested in Chihuahua
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — 30-year-old Liliana Judith S.M. was arrested at a home in the Benito Juarez neighborhood in Delicias, Chihuahua on May 14th…
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Video seems to show Texas National Guard members pepper-spraying migrants along U.S. – Mexico border
JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — With more migrants arriving at the border, officials with the Texas National Guard and the Texas Department of Public…
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ABC-7 Xtra: ‘American Dream or Border Nightmare?’
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico (KVIA)– Bordering the Texas State line is Sunland Park, New Mexico, a town with fewer than 20,000 residents, but for…
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Juarez authorities preventing traffic incidents with new bus routes
JUAREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — The new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) II route started operations on Saturday at 5 a.m., transporting hundreds of Borderland…
Continue Reading Mother’s Day is a sad reminder for the mothers of Mexico’s over 100,000 missing people
By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Hundreds of mothers of missing people, relatives and activists marched in protest through…
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El Paso wanted man arrested in Ciudad Juárez
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A group of detectives from the Subsecretaría de Estado Mayor de la Secretaría de Seguridad Pública del Estado, SSPE,…
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Former Border Patrol agent sentenced to 18 months for taking a $5,000 bribe
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — 42-year-old Fernando Castillo will spend the next 18 months in prison for bribery of a public official. Court officials say…
Continue Reading Biden Administration updating asylum rules to allow for faster removal of migrants with criminal history
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVIA) — The Biden Administration just announced new “efforts to enhance the security of our border and deliver more timely…
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Homeland Security slated to propose change to asylum-seeking process: Sources
By Molly Nagle, Luke Barr, and Quinn Owen May 9, 2024, 9:56 AM The Department of Homeland Security is slated to propose a change to the process for…
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Increased security at Juarez International Airport due to recent fatal shootings
JUÁREZ, Chihuahua (KVIA) — Mexican authorities of all three levels of government have started operations to safeguard the Juárez International…
Continue Reading Shots fired near border wall in El Paso’s Lower Valley
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — U.S. Border Patrol is confirming to ABC-7 shots have been fired near the border wall in El Paso’s Lower Valley. We’ll be…
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Judge dismisses 200 cases against migrants charged with involvement in border struggle
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — County Court of Law Judge Ruben Morales dismissed over 200 cases against migrants accused of being involved with a struggle…
Continue Reading Only on ABC-7: Border Patrol ride along in Sunland Park, NM
SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico (KVIA) — Thursday only on ABC-7, extra perspective on the daring journey migrants make to get across the U.S.-Mexico…
Continue Reading Texas AG trying to get temporary injunction against El Paso’s Annunciation House, claiming it engages in ‘criminal conduct’
UPDATE – ABC-7 spoke with Jerome Wesevich, the attorney representing Annunciation House in the lawsuit involving the State of Texas, about the…
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