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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico − Three suspects were arrested on Monday in the death of a Mexican migration agent who was found earlier in the day with no signs of life, state security and migration ...
The slain agent was attacked at a checkpoint just south of Ciudad Juarez, which is across the border from the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas, when he asked an unspecified number of foreign nationals ...
Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY Updated December 31, 2024 at 10:46 AM EL PASO, Texas – They crossed the U.S.-Mexico border like beggars, tired, hungry and alone.
Prior to the incident, tensions were already running high between authorities and migrants in Ciudad Juárez, where shelters were full of people trying to cross into the United States or requesting asylum; [9] in late December 2022, the municipal government put the number of stranded migrants registered in its territory at 20,000. [10]
The Mexican drug war began in 2006. Ciudad Juárez is a large city in Chihuahua which is next to the United States border, opposite El Paso in Texas. [1] Mexican drug cartels have carried out many attacks in Juárez, including a prison riot in March 2009, an attack on a rehab center in September 2009 and a massacre in January 2010.
View of El Paso from the Ciudad Juárez side of the border. The first bridge to cross the Rio Grande at El Paso del Norte was built in the time of New Spain, over 250 years ago, from wood hauled in from Santa Fe. [82] Today, this bridge is honored by the modern Santa Fe Street Bridge, and Santa Fe Street in downtown El Paso.
A Christian pastor who ran a Juárez migrant shelter was sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted of forcing migrants to do construction and other manual labor for her benefit, the ...
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