A secret tunnel discovered last week on the U.S.-Mexico border will be sealed by Mexican authorities, an army official in Ciudad Juarez said Saturday.

Mayor Cruz Perez Cuellar of Ciudad Juarez expressed readiness to handle a potential influx of migrants as U.S. policies under President Donald Trump

La Verdad Juarez January 28, 2025 By Blanca Carmona / La Verdad Juárez CIUDAD JUÁREZ – A federal judge has suspended criminal charges against Francisco Garduño Yáñez, Mexico’s top immigration official,

President Donald Trump's promises of mass deportations, which could bring batches of new arrivals fresh off the border bridges into Juárez, has Mexican law enforcement preparing to keep watch for potential trouble.

General Jose Lemus, commander of Ciudad Juarez's military garrison, said the tunnel "must have taken a long time" to build, suggesting "it could have been one or two years".

The El Paso Central Business Association (CBA) will host its January luncheon featuring various binational leaders and officials in Downtown this afternoon. Juárez Mayor Cruz Pérez Cuéllar is set to be one of the keynote speakers at the event.

Discovered on January 10 by US and Mexican security agencies, the tunnel measures approximately 300 meters (1,000 feet) in length on the Mexican side and is equipped with lighting, ventilation and is

US law enforcement agents carried out exercises using barbed wire and concrete blocks Friday at a crossing on the border with Mexico as tensions crept up ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

Troops arrived at Fort Bliss over the weekend as part of President Donald Trump's executive order to deploy military personnel to the U.S. southern border. "It's wrong that they act like this because of Trump," Elizabeth De La Rosa said.

(AP Photo/Felix Marquez) Vehicles traverse highways in El Paso, Texas, left, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, right, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, the day of President Donald Trump’s inauguration. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez ) A migrant woman from the Mexican state of ...

Texas law enforcement and local police in El Paso, Loya added. "Things that happen in the United States have implications in Ciudad Juárez and the state of Chihuahua, the same way what happens in ...

A video shot over two years ago at the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, has been falsely described on social media in January 2025 as showing migrants having “just” forced their way into the U.S.