Border Report Live

Groups in South Texas are organizing town hall meetings against miles of new border wall and waterborne barrier that the federal government says it is building. In the latest episode of Border Report Live, South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez talks about how members of the No Border Wall Coalition of Laredo are warning borderland residents not to sign right-of-entry forms, which now include a...

Authorities in Chihuahua, Mexico, say they will appeal a federal judge’s decision to free the owner of a crematorium where hundreds of embalmed bodies remained piled in offices and a warehouse for years. The judge on Friday ordered the release of Jose Luis Arellano Cuaron, proprietor of Plenitud crematorium, saying whatever transgressions he committed are an administrative matter, not criminal off...

Despite California’s refusal to help federal agencies crack down on illegal immigration, an investigation has discovered that many law enforcement agencies in the state are getting money from the Department of Homeland Security to assist with border patrol operations, including the UC San Diego Police Department. According to CalMatters, a nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization, the universit...

Law enforcement agents called them ultralights. Picture a canvas chair and a small engine tied to a hang glider. They flew over from Mexico with a basket of drugs the pilot dropped on U.S. soil before returning home. That was in 2008. Transnational criminal organizations now use drones to drop fentanyl, meth and cocaine in border communities like El Paso and to guide migrants jumping over the bord...

A case of mistaken identity might have led to the abduction and loss of life of several workers at a Canadian mine last month in Sinaloa, Mexico. Mexican Public Safety Secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch said four suspects detained by the army in connection with the disappearance of 10 individuals from La Concordia mine project have started talking. They are giving authorities clues as to why a cell of...

Bodies and human remains recently turned up near where authorities are looking for 10 missing employees of a Canadian mine in Mexico. At least one of the bodies found appear to be that of one of the missing employees. Authorities also said four people have been arrested in connection with the missing workers, most of whom are Mexican nationals. In today’s episode of Border Report Live, corresponde...

As soon as you walk into the U.S. through the San Ysidro Port of Entry, you’ll be within a mile of five tobacco and vape shops located along San Ysidro Boulevard just north of the border. Border Report discovered most of these establishments are very private about their business operations and their products. All five refused to speak about Mexico’s new ban on vaping and how it will potentially im...

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-New Mexico, on Thursday signed into law a bill getting local public entities out of the business of non-violent migrant detention. The Immigrant Safety Act (House Bill 9) calls for the termination or non-renewal of interagency contracts that facilitate the operation of detention centers such at the ones in Torrance, Cibola and Otero counties. It also bans the use of...

Whether federal immigration agents will unmask, identify themselves, obtain judicial warrants in certain cases and work with local authorities is up for debate on Capitol Hill. Congressional Democrats are seeking new rules for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents following the deaths of two Americans in Minneapolis and are threatening to block funding for the Homeland Security Department. Re...

The Department of Homeland Security is heeding calls to have all of its officers wear body cameras in Minneapolis. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday on social media that her agency will require officers on the ground in Minneapolis to wear body cameras following intense scrutiny of their conduct and the deaths of two people. According to the Associated Press, President Donald Trump said t...

A horse at an equine import quarantine facility in Florida has tested positive for New World screwworm, the U.S. Department of Agriculture says. Lab tests taken of the horse and sent to Iowa confirmed the results, the USDA said Friday. Meanwhile, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has declared the New World screwworm a state disaster as a preemptive measure to bring attention to the dangers this insect could...

The United States, Mexico and Canada will review their free trade agreement this summer but the dealings have already begun. The North American trade agreement was signed in 2020 during Trump’s first term. It allows commerce to flow between the countries freely and protects the countries from the effects of tariffs. In today’s episode of Border Report Live, correspondents Julian Resendiz and Salva...

During his time as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in San Diego, Neama Rahmani says he prosecuted and convicted more than a thousand cartel bosses, operatives, smugglers and money launderers. Rahmani is one of the prosecutors responsible for taking down the once powerful Arellano-Felix Organization that terrorized the Tijuana-San Diego region for decades. He appeared on Border Report Live and offered a...

Construction firms continue to deal with fallout from immigration raids in South Texas, and industry leaders have been speaking out and sharing concerns that go beyond losing money. Mario Guerrero, the executive director of the South Texas Builders Association, says the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have conducted numerous raids at construction sites in the region, and it’s creating f...

A migrant advocacy organization in El Paso is working with Catholic churches to help migrant families affected by immigration raids. In the latest episode of Border Report Live, correspondents Julian Resendiz and Sandra Sanchez speak with Jesus de la Torre, assistant director for global migration at the nonprofit Hope Border Institute about how the organization is galvanizing support and resources...

Over 9,000 people have been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents this past year in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, according to construction industry officials who say workers are being targeted as the industry is hurting for labor. In the latest episode of Border Report Live, South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez speaks with Paul Rodriguez, president and CEO of Valley Land Tit...

Controlled blasting for border wall construction is taking place at the foot of a revered historic religious monument near El Paso, Texas. The new border wall is being put in near Mount Cristo Rey, a mountain topped with 29-foot-tall limestone statue of Christ located at the intersection of Sunland Park, New Mexico, El Paso and Mexico. Border Report’s El Paso correspondent Julian Resendiz describe...

Rumors have started swirling that Arizona is the next stop for one of President Trump’s crackdowns on illegal immigration, and it has officials on alert. The governor recently told reporters that she fears what has transpired in other U.S. cities, including this month’s deadly shooting in Minneapolis, could happen in her state. Some Arizona lawmakers welcome the arrival of Immigration and Customs...

Just days after voting to advance a war powers resolution to block President Trump from using military force in Venezuela, two Republican senators changed course and helped defeat it. The two senators, Josh Hawley of Missouri and Todd Young of Indiana, came under immediate fire from the Trump administration. Pablo Manriquez, editor of Migrant Insider, says Hawley’s decision to reverse his vote lik...

A congressman from New Mexico is blasting the Trump administration’s plan to build a $1.6 billion stretch of border barrier in a remote portion of his district. The area known as the Bootheel of New Mexico is sparsely populated, mountainous and is seeing little migrant or drug smuggling activity, U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez, D-New Mexico, said Wednesday on Border Report Live. “This Bootheel border wall...

A migrant who was found in distress along the border on Christmas Day died at a hospital the following day. U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Del Rio sector encountered the Mexican man sitting on a chair near the Rio Grande west of Del Rio, Texas, according to a news release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. In this episode of Border Report Live, we discuss the lawsuits have been filed aga...

A crime reporter became the first to be killed this new year in Mexico, which has been historically one of the deadliest countries for journalists. According to the Associated Press, local news outlets identified the reporter as Carlos Castro, the director of Código Norte Veracruz. He was shot and killed at a restaurant in Poza Rica, in the Gulf state of Veracruz. Like Castro, Mexicans journalist...

A human rights lawyer says the 4th Amendment rights of residents in border areas of the United States are being encroached upon by the Department of Homeland Security. Amy Peikoff, a lawyer with the nonprofit Pacific Legal Foundation, co-authored a policy brief that says more Americans are facing violations to the 4th Amendment search and seizure laws at the border. Peikoff appears on the latest e...

President Trump taught a Venezuelan dictator a lesson when he plucked him from his country and into an American courtroom days ago. What happened to Nicolas Maduro has sent chills to enemies and reluctant U.S. partners throughout the world, analysts say. But how likely is Trump to keep going after more high-profile alleged criminals on foreign soil? One informed observer says leaders in Colombia,...

The President of Mexico says she’s not worried about a sudden U.S. military intervention in her country, such as the one that plucked Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from his bedroom on Saturday. She also doubts American boots on the ground in her country would solve the root causes of drug trafficking, such as lack of economic opportunities for young people in Mexico and drug demand in the Un...