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Feds freeze La Linea's assets, expose ties to Jalisco cartel
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The Treasury Department has frozen the assets of a border-based criminal organization, and in the process exposed its ties to one of the largest illicit fentanyl...
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Nearly 200 families separated by US-Mexico border reunite briefly in annual...
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Nearly 200 families gathered Saturday along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border for heartfelt but brief reunions with loved ones they had not seen for years because they...
View ArticleMigrants dead, injured after National Guard opens fire on smugglers
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The Mexican government says it has suspended three National Guard members involved in a weekend shootout with smugglers which left two Colombian migrants dead and four...
View Article2.9 million expats expected to vote in Tuesday's presidential election
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- About 2.9 million Americans who live outside the United States are expected to participate in Tuesday's election, according to Vote From Abroad, a group that works with...
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Trump still brings jitters to leaders south of border
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Millions of dollars in merchandise and thousands of El Paso and Juarez, Mexico, residents cross the border every day. That’s been going on for decades and illustrates...
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Baja officials brace for 'elevated' deportations under Trump
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- Officials in Baja California expect a high increase in the number of deportations by the U.S. government once Donald Trump returns to office. Throughout the campaign,...
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Migrants worry Trump will do away with asylum appointments at ports of entry
JUAREZ, Mexico (Border Report) – Milagro Gonzalez Gamboa laughed as her 3-year-old son Andriu jumped up and down on a sofa and ran around the living room of a church-based community center in Central...
View ArticleTeen 'sicario' sentenced to 150 years in prison for 6 murders
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A Mexican judge has sentenced a young man to 150 years in prison after finding him guilty of killing six people in the winter of 2023. Jorge Manuel C.E., who was 18 at...
View ArticleCity removes fake 'medical providers' from fast-lane program at border crossing
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- The city of Tijuana says it has removed 48 percent of companies "pretending" to be medical providers who had access to a program that issues passes to patients who need to...
View ArticlePortions of Tijuana's famed Avenida Revolución now closed to vehicle traffic
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- About four blocks along Tijuana's famous Avenida Revolución are now closed to vehicle traffic as the city tries to make the area more appealing to visitors and locals as...
View ArticleTijuana to add GPS, dashboard cameras to police cars
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- The Tijuana Police Department will begin equipping its patrol cars with GPS systems and dashboard cameras, and the mayor says the first units featuring the new technology...
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Mexican Army seizes hundreds of migrants headed to US
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Authorities in the Mexican border state of Chihuahua say they have seized a semi and arrested its driver for allegedly transporting 257 migrants from various countries...
View Article3 dead, 4 injured after shooting in Juarez home
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Police in Juarez, Mexico, continue to investigate Saturday’s shooting of seven people in a home less than a quarter mile from the U.S. border. The shots claimed the...
View ArticleGang used walkie-talkies, vehicle caravans to move cocaine in South Texas
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A year-long investigation of alleged narcotics stash houses in Brownsville, Texas, has resulted in the arrest of two men and the seizure of 54 pounds of cocaine....
View ArticleDemocrat concedes competitive US House race in Arizona
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A Democratic candidate for a House of Representatives seat in southeast Arizona has conceded the race to the Republican incumbent. “The voters have made their...
View Article'Wildcatting' crackdown: Unregulated drivers put on notice at border crossings
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System, San Diego County District Attorney, other elected officials and several law enforcement agencies have announced "stepped-up"...
View ArticleGirls in shelter allegedly forced to beg on the streets
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Authorities in the Mexican border state of Chihuahua have emptied a shelter for teens with drug addiction issues after six girls alleged that they were mistreated and...
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Police unearth bodies buried in back of three homes
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Police in Juarez, Mexico, have pulled three bodies from clandestine graves not far from an area near the Rio Grande where they recovered 14 bodies earlier. Chihuahua...
View ArticleFirefighters rescue lioness from roof of Juarez home near Rio Grande
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Police and firefighters in Juarez, Mexico, are reporting the rescue of a stray lioness from a neighborhood near the Rio Grande on Sunday night. Authorities say they...
View ArticleUS ambassador to Mexico ponders border's economic future under Trump
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar pondered what life might be like in both countries once Trump takes over as president. He said that over the last three years, the...
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