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BorderReport.com aims to share immediate, in-depth stories about the lives of individuals who live, work, and migrate along the U.S.-Mexico border. This valuable content is produced by skilled and reliable journalists from Nexstar Media Group, who have been specifically selected to focus on border issues. The reporting team is headed by Julian Resendiz, based in El Paso, and Sandra Sanchez, based in McAllen. Both Julian and Sandra bring years of journalism experience and have dedicated much of their lives to understanding and covering the border area.

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Sinaloa cartel indictments won't slow flow of fentanyl into US

18 hours ago | borderreport.com | Salvador Rivera

SAN DIEGO ( Border Report) - A cartel expert says indictments handed out this week against leaders of the Sinaloa cartel are not going to keep it from manufacturing and exporting fentanyl and other drugs to the U.S. any time soon. Everard Meade is director of Proceso Pacifico, an organization that works in communities impacted by cartel violence, including the city of Culiacán, home to the Sinaloa cartel, which is considered to be the largest manufacturer and distributor of fentanyl in the world.
Mexico pays some water owed to US

23 hours ago | borderreport.com | Sandra Sanchez

McALLEN, Texas ( Border Report) - Mexico recently paid a small portion of the water it owes the United States under a 1944 international treaty. A total of 56,750 acre-feet of water was paid via "a transfer of ownership in Amistad Dam" on April 30, Frank Fisher, spokesman for U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission told Border Report on Wednesday.
Nation's undocumented population would swell if birthright citizenship ended, study finds

1 day ago | borderreport.com | Sandra Sanchez

US Supreme Court to take up issue on ThursdayMcALLEN, Texas ( Border Report) - Ending birthright citizenship would increase the U.S. population of undocumented immigrants, not reduce it, according to a new study released Tuesday.
Man falls of border wall in Sunland Park, New Mexico

3 days ago | borderreport.com | David Burge

EL PASO, Texas ( KTSM) - A man fell off the border wall in Sunland Park, New Mexico and was injured early Saturday morning, May 10, Sunland Park Fire said. Sunland Park Fire said they were called out just before 4 a.m. Saturday to a call about a man falling off the border wall at the end of Anapra Road. The man, only identified as being in his 30s, fell about 20 feet off the wall, Sunland Park Fire said.
MXLAN economic summit examines effects of AI, tariffs on border workforce

5 days ago | borderreport.com | Sandra Sanchez

McALLEN, Texas ( Border Report) - The MXLAN International Economic Summit kicked off this weekend's festival celebrating Latino culture on the South Texas-Mexico border. This year's economic summit focused on artificial intelligence, or AI, and emerging technology and what the Texas and border workforce will need to keep up with this ever changing field. Tariffs, however, are what was on most peoples' minds.
'Our phones are ringing off the hook'

5 days ago | borderreport.com | Julian Resendiz

Border industry scrambles to keep operations above water amid fluid global trade environmentEL PASO, Texas (Border Report) - It's a tragic anecdote that illustrates the chaos President Donald Trump's on-again, off-again trade tariffs have brought to the U.S.-Mexico border in the past few months. "One client brought a truck across [...] and he got hit with $17,000 in tariffs he can't undo," said David Panko, manager of Foreign Trade Zone 68 in El Paso.
316 immigration cases filed first week of May in west, central Texas

5 days ago | borderreport.com | Luisa Barrios

EL PASO, Texas ( KTSM) - Federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas filed 316 new immigration and immigration-related criminal cases during the first week of May throughout central and western areas of Texas, including the El Paso region. Acting U.S. Attorney Margaret Leachman for the Western District of Texas made the announcement on Friday, May 9, in a news release.
Mexico 'not in full control of its water,' ex IBWC commissioner says

6 days ago | borderreport.com | Julian Resendiz

Northern states allowing only a trickle from reservoirs to reach Rio Grande tributaries; Trump likely to demand water guarantees during USMCA reviewEL PASO, Texas (Border Report) - Mexican diplomats say climate change has hindered them from settling a massive water debt to the United States, which is bringing economic hardship to South Texas farmers. But a former U.S. federal official on Thursday offered a different explanation.
Marines killed in crash as vehicle attempts to pass another, report says

6 days ago | borderreport.com | Luisa Barrios |Melissa Luna

EL PASO, Texas ( KTSM) - Two Marines were killed, and another was severely injured last month in a crash, after the vehicle they were traveling in veered off the roadway to avoid oncoming traffic as it attempted to pass another vehicle, according to an accident report from the Doña Ana County Sheriff's Office obtained by KTSM. As we previously reported, the crash occurred on Tuesday morning, April 15, during a convoy movement near Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
The cost of securing the border

6 days ago | borderreport.com | Fernie Ortiz

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) - Congress is working on President Donald Trump's "big bill" for next year's budget, which includes tens of billions of dollars to resume border wall construction and ramp up deportations. This week on Border Report Live, correspondents Julian Resendiz, Salvador Rivera and Sandra Sanchez examine some of the proposals from border lawmakers and members of Trump's cabinet.