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Risk not 'high enough' to warrant EPA cleanup in Tijuana River Valley
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- The County of San Diego is trying to get the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its decision to deny financial and other support to clean up the Tijuana River...
View ArticleJuarez police officer charged with killing US citizen
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – It was a cool Sunday morning when brothers Julian and Jorge Rodriguez decided to go out and get some food to go. The two U.S.-born El Paso residents were in Juarez,...
View ArticleDespite $50 million in losses, Mexico's president defends AMLO's Mexicana...
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- Of the 5 million passengers who flew throughout Mexico in 2024, Mexicana Airlines transported 23,300 of them, less than half a percentage point of the market share,...
View ArticleAlmost 1 million Tijuana residents to go without water beginning Friday
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- Almost 1 million residents from 632 neighborhoods throughout Tijuana and Rosarito will be without water service through the weekend starting Friday. Jesús García Castro,...
View ArticleSewage treatment plant in Baja nearly complete
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- On a bluff just above the Pacific Ocean about 5 miles south of the border, the San Antonio de los Buenos sewage treatment plant is 97.5% finished. Its opening is widely...
View ArticleMexican fishing crew, US Coast Guard slug it out at sea
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The captain and first mate of a Mexican fishing vessel are in federal custody after slugging it out at sea with members of the U.S. Coast Guard trying to board their...
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Texas, Arizona arming Mexican drug cartels
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – The U.S. and Mexico are working closer than ever to trace the origin of guns used in drug cartel massacres and other crimes south of the border. The number of gun...
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Border business leaders brace for 'Trump effect'
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Mexican business leaders are taking the initiative to strengthen ties with their American counterparts in anticipation of changes brought about by the incoming Trump...
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HSI promises to find those responsible for 'sophisticated' tunnel
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- Special agents with Homeland Security Investigations, along with U.S. Border Patrol, uncovered what they are calling a "sophisticated cross-border tunnel" connecting El Paso...
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Mexican cattle banned from Texas due to screwworm threat
(Texas Tribune) — A single cow in Mexico and a pest the size of a housefly have held up pens full of Texas-bound cattle worth millions of dollars for the past six weeks. The U.S. Department of...
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Maquiladora sites to help Mexican border town shelter deported migrants
McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) -- The Mexican border town of Piedras Negras is readying plans to open warehouses formerly used as maquiladoras to house deported migrants if the incoming Trump...
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'Perfectly legal' if 'sanctuary cities' don't help with mass deportations,...
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- More than 240 political leaders in so-called "sanctuary municipalities" received letters last month threatening them with legal prosecution and up to 20 years in prison if...
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'High value' migrants, drugs likely came across border tunnel, expert says
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – As a former U.S. Border Patrol chief agent in Arizona and West Texas, Victor Manjarrez has come across his share of illicit cross-border tunnels. He’s seen enormous...
View ArticleChihuahua state officer to stand trial in shooting death of El Pasoan in Juarez
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A Mexican judge says there's enough evidence to hold a Chihuahua state police officer for trial on homicide charges in connection with the Jan. 5 shooting death of an...
View ArticleBorder billboards warn against unregulated cabbies, rideshare drivers
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Billboards warning people — especially women — not to accept rides from unregulated drivers went up a few weeks ago near the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa ports of entry. They...
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US in plea talks with Mexican cartel kingpin Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday that they're discussing a potential plea deal with Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the long-elusive Mexican drug lord who was arrested last summer and whose...
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5 killed in Mexican town caught between battling criminal groups
HUITZILAC, Mexico (AP) — Schools and some businesses were closed and few people walked the streets of this town south of Mexico’s capital Tuesday, hours after five people were gunned down on the same...
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Migrants left stranded in troubled resort as Mexico disperses them far from...
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — About 100 migrants from various countries wandered directionless and disoriented through the streets of the troubled Pacific coast resort of Acapulco. After walking for a...
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Texas missionaries bring food, hope to migrants in Mexican border towns
HIDALGO, Texas (Border Report) -- The well-worn white van owned by West Side Baptist Church has made dozens of trips to South Texas and across the border to Mexico over the past few years. Migrants...
View ArticleBorder business leaders show unity amid threats of tariffs, trade pact review
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Business leaders from both sides of the border met Wednesday in El Paso. It was a show of unity as a new U.S. president threatens tariffs and a vital trade pact faces...
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