Border Report Live

On this episode of Border Report Live, Migrant Insider's Pablo Manríquez explains why the government shutdown is nearing its end.He also discusses the Supreme Court's surprising decision not to pursue an end to same-sex marriage.And Manríquez details his long-time relationship with Raul Grijalva, a Congressman from Arizona considered a Washington power broker who died earlier this year.He talks about meeting Grijalva while tending bar in D.C. and how their friendship evolved from there.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Sunday outlined the public safety plan that she and her Cabinet crafted to restore control and peace in the crime-ridden state of Michoacan.
The plan, a response to the recent assassination of a popular mayor, involves sending money and more troops to the state.
Mexican officials said nearly 1,000 additional troops were scheduled to arrive in Michoacan on Monday, bringing the total of federal forces in the state to more than 10,000.
But a major part of the plan — the “Michoacan Plan for Peace and Justice” — calls for investing billions of dollars in social programs.
In this episode of Border Report Live, El Paso correspondent Julian Resendiz examines what is in the plan, where all that money will go, and why the plan is being heavily criticized.

Rice University’s Baker Institute for Foreign Policy has released its Mexico Country Outlook 2026 report, and researchers found that things are starting to appear grim for the country.
The report, in great detail, examines Mexico’s relationship with the U.S. across economics, politics, and social issues. It found that Mexico’s economy is not growing, yet the country has continued a series of welfare programs that are proving difficult to maintain and are draining the budget.
During a panel discussion on Thursday, Tony Payan, director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at the Baker Institute, said he sees red flags in Mexico’s democracy, finances, and approach to organized criminal activity.
In this episode of Border Report Live, El Paso correspondent Julian Resendiz delves into the report released this week.

The president of Mexico this week responded to the assassination of a mayor by announcing a plan aimed at addressing the root causes of violence.
The “Michoacan Plan for Peace and Justice” comes on the heels of the assassination of Carlos Alberto Manzo, the mayor of Uruapan, which is the second biggest city in the state of Michoacan.
He was gunned down Saturday night at a Day of the Dead festival. Manzo’s death marks the seventh mayoral assassination in three years in that state alone, and it underscores some of Mexico’s most pressing issues: cartel violence and drug trafficking.
In this episode of Border Report Live, California correspondent Salvador Rivera and guest Everard Meade discuss some of the challenges Mexico is facing under the Sheinbaum administration.
Meade is the 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.

California voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved Proposition 50, which was designed to help Democrats flip up to five congressional House seats in the midterm elections next year.
Proposition 50, which passed with 68% of the vote, was a response to the Republican-led Texas Legislature, which also redrew the state’s congressional map to pick up five House seats.
On Wednesday, California Republicans filed a federal lawsuit to block the new U.S. House map. The lawsuit claims the map-makers improperly used race as a factor to favor Hispanic voters “without cause or evidence to justify it.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded to the lawsuit on social media, saying, “Good luck, losers.”

Few world leaders nowadays are putting out the welcome mat for migrants. Instead, many are painting them as criminals, freeloaders or a threat to jobs or national security, immigration advocates say.
That’s why having the support of the head of the 1.4 billion-strong Roman Catholic Church could make a difference in changing those views, says Dylan Corbett, executive director of El Paso’s Hope Border Institute.
In this episode of Border Report Live, Corbett talks about being part of a delegation of El Paso Catholic leaders and community activists who met with Pope Leo XIV in Rome last month.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Friday cited safety concerns by Mexican officials that triggered a massive international trade incident that has resulted in stopped flights from U.S. airports to Mexico City.
The stoppage was announced Thursday by the Trump administration and affects airports in McAllen, San Antonio, Dallas and Austin and nine other U.S. airports, as well all combined passenger and cargo flights by Mexican airlines to the United States from Mexico City’s new Felipe Angeles International Airport.
In the latest episode of Border Report Live, El Paso correspondent Julian Resendiz breaks down Sheinbaum’s reasons for the trade tiff between the two bordering countries.
South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez explains how Mexico missed its water debt deadline to the United States this past five-year cycle under a 1944 international treaty, and by how much.

With U.S. Customs and Border Protection set to launch a biometrics data gathering system, researchers in Tijuana believe the program will create longer waits for commuters.
CBP plans to launch the program on Dec. 26. It will require officers to photograph and fingerprint all non-citizens leaving or arriving in the United States.
In this episode of Border Report Live, we discuss how CBP will gather biometric data for those with U.S. resident status, visas, seasonal workers and even children.
José María Ramos García, a professor Colegio de la Frontera in Tijuana, fears the gathering of the biometrics will take additional time and add to further delays for thousands of people who cross the border daily, especially those in vehicles.