Border Report Team
Recent Articles
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Advocates urge US to stop sending asylum seekers to dangerous border cities
Immigrant advocates are again urging the United States to stop sending asylum seekers to wait out their claims in dangerous Mexican border cities.
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Border town’s industrial complex experiences explosive growth
With nine major commercial and infrastructure projects in the works or recently completed, Southern New Mexico’s manufacturing engine in revving.
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‘Walls work,’ DHS head declares during border visit
The head of the Department of Homeland Security visited the new border wall going up south of Donna, Texas, on Thursday afternoon and declared after a tour that “walls work.”
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Lawmakers urge inquiry into conditions at ICE detention centers
Senators are asking the federal government to investigate conditions and oversight for detainees at ICE migrant detention centers.
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FBI worried about criminals’ access to encryption technology
A border town's new FBI chief is worried about advances in encryption technology that may allow criminals to plot or commit crimes with impunity.
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Mexican victims of Walmart shooting ready to file lawsuit
Mexican citizens who were injured in the Aug. 3 Walmart shooting and families of victims from Juarez will file a lawsuit as early as this week, the Mexican consul in El Paso said.
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Mexican shoppers ‘not afraid’ to return to El Paso Walmart
Plenty of Mexican shoppers showed up at Thursday’s reopening of the El Paso Walmart where a gunman killed 22 people and wounded two dozen others three months ago.
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Business leaders seek end to drug violence in Mexican border city
With Christmas sales around the corner and a fragile tourism industry on the line, Juarez business leaders want to make sure the violent drug cartel attacks of the past few days that have left more than a dozen people dead and 24 vehicles on fire has been contained.
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Hundreds peacefully protest border-wall construction’s ‘desecration of tribal lands’
ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Arizona (Border Report) — In a remote desert wildlife refuge Saturday afternoon in southwestern Arizona, hundreds of people protested the construction of a border wall in what many say are “sacred” Native American lands. Upwards of 500 people from throughout the Southwest turned out for the peaceful protest. Some brought their pets and children, while others wore costumes and carried signs showing opposition to the border wall that is being built at Organ Pipe Cactus […]
