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Border Patrol bridge project over Tijuana River criticized as 'boondoggle'
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- For more than a year now, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been constructing a bridge over the Tijuana River connecting one side of the channel with the other. It's...
View ArticleMexico's traditional and Indigenous community police come under fire from...
TANGAMANDAPIO, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s traditional and Indigenous community police forces are coming under increasingly deadly fire from drug cartels, authorities said Monday. Adrián López, the chief...
View ArticleBipartisan Senate group ‘alarmed’ over Mexico’s reform proposals
A bipartisan Senate group is raising red flags over Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposed constitutional reform package, which seeks to upend the country’s judiciary and independent...
View ArticleMexico puts relations with US and Canadian embassies 'on pause' for slamming...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president told reporters Tuesday he has put relations with the United States and Canadian embassies “on pause” after the two countries voiced concerns over a proposed...
View ArticleCartels drop bombs from drones, set vehicles on fire in Michoacan
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Authorities in the Mexican state of Michoacan say they have “restored order” after criminal gangs blocked roads, set vehicles on fire and reportedly attacked a police...
View ArticleVolunteers find bones in suspected cartel 'kitchen'
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office is confirming a community group's claim that it found multiple human remains near the border city of Matamoros. Colectivo Amor...
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California in-state tuition program for Mexican students begins
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- Attendance at Southwestern Community College in Chula Vista, California, is up by 20 percent this semester compared to a year ago, according to the school's President Mark...
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Elderly Arizona residents gunned down on Mexican highway
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The governor of the Mexican border state of Sonora is urging motorists to exercise caution after two U.S. residents driving a Nissan Pathfinder were killed by gunmen...
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Mexico sending water to border town of Reynosa
McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) -- Water restrictions on the Mexican border town of Reynosa appear to be easing as Mexican authorities are working to send additional supplies to the region, according...
View ArticleMexico's ruling party edges closer to a majority in both houses of Congress...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Following a pair of defections by opposition senators, Mexico’s ruling party said Wednesday it is edging closer to a steamroller two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress. The...
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Warning issued to people who use SENTRI lanes at San Ysidro Port of Entry
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- Due to a rise in "blind mule" cases at the border, the Tijuana Police Department warns drivers to inspect their cars before crossing into San Diego. The term "blind mule"...
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Man wanted on child sex offenses is first American on border's Most Wanted list
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – An accused Texas sex offender has become the first U.S. citizen to make the list of the 10 most wanted fugitives on the Mexican border. Alberto Mariscal, 49, has...
View ArticleFaulty hillside renders 44 additional Tijuana homes uninhabitable
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- A large crack on a Tijuana street is now spreading underground and is affecting 44 homes, prompting city officials to red-tag them. This is on top of more than 90 homes...
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CBP officers at San Ysidro Port of Entry seize 1 ton of narcotics in July
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers assigned to the San Ysidro Port of Entry seized more than a ton of narcotics worth millions of dollars during the month of July...
View ArticleMexico will finish its side of new Otay Mesa border crossing in 5 weeks,...
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- The Mexican side of the new Otay Mesa II Port of Entry, currently under construction, will be ready in five weeks, according to officials south of the border. Meantime,...
View Article4 Baja police officers arrested on suspicion of murder
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- Four Ensenada police officers were arrested Thursday in connection with a murder. Baja California State Police and members of Mexico's National Guard took the officers...
View ArticleMore Tijuana restaurants closing as Americans stop visiting
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- The restaurant industry in Tijuana continues to see bankrupt establishments and fewer sales due to a lack of customers from north of the border. Visits are said to be down...
View ArticleLandfill workers find severed body parts in trash
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Employees of the Juarez, Mexico, municipal landfill for the past two days have been finding severed human parts in trash. Around noon on Thursday, the workers at the...
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'Chicles,' Tijuana's famous racing dog, retiring due to injury that requires...
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- "Chicles," the famous running dog from Tijuana, is being forced to retire from long-distance running after veterinarians discovered the canine is in bad need of surgery to...
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Mexico suggests US made a deal with Mexican drug lord to get his brother...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Mexico suggested Thursday that U.S. authorities made a deal with a Mexican drug lord who turned in himself and another capo, to get his brother transferred from a...
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