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Trump has given soldiers the authority to detain migrants for domestic criminal violations. In person, it’s overwhelming.

Chihuahua police freed 28 migrants from a smuggler’s stash house after a Guatemalan woman who snuck a cellphone past her ...

A 32-year-old man wanted for drug trafficking in Texas was arrested Wednesday in Juarez and has been extradited to El Paso.

The man that was extradited by Mexican authorities earlier this week, made his first appearance in federal court this morning ...

Immigration enforcement, Tren de Aragua gang and other topics are discussed by FBI El Paso Special Agent in Charge John S. Morales.

U.S. imports had not topped $800 billion in a first quarter. This year, U.S. imports almost topped $1 trillion through March.

Competition for the Democratic nomination for governor in New Mexico is heating up as former four-term Las Cruces mayor Ken Miyagishima launched a campaign with a focus on public safety, affordable ho ...

The narcotics were found hidden within the rocker panels of a vehicle driven by a 20-year-old female U.S. citizen arriving ...

Authorities in Juarez, Mexico, have handed over to the U.S. government an American citizen allegedly wanted on drug and murder conspiracy charges. Mexican National ...

A 20-year-old American woman was arrested Tuesday morning at a border crossing in Central El Paso after she allegedly tried ...

Six weeks after the military took control of two swaths of land along the U.S.-Mexico border in New Mexico and West Texas, ...