Border Report Live

Mexican officials tell Border Report they’re considering putting a boom in the Tijuana River Valley to catch trash and stop it from crossing into the United States.
After days of heavy rain in Southern California, the smell in the border area is overwhelming and a gubernatorial hopeful who visited this week wants to declare it a state of emergency.
California correspondent Salvador Rivera brings exclusive reporting from the region on the latest episode of Border Report Live.
Rivera toured the flooding on Wednesday. He describes the boom structure that Mexico is talking about putting up to help stop contaminates from coming across from Mexico.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids near schools and in communities are taking a toll on children and their ability to learn, according to a recent lawsuit.
The National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) filed the emergency motion in federal court in Oregon to stop ICE from conducting enforcement operations near schools, colleges, churches, hospitals, and other community-serving “sensitive locations.”
“The mere presence of ICE near school grounds terrorizes students and educators and disrupts teaching and learning. Fear and cruelty have no place in public education or our democracy,” NEA President Becky Pringle said in a statement. “We are taking this legal action to demand that long-standing protections for sensitive locations be restored. The places we go for care, education, and worship must never become places of intimidation and cruelty at the hands of federal agents.”
In the latest episode of Border Report Live, California correspondent Salvador Rivera talks about the lawsuit filed in Oregon. Several California teachers are part of the lawsuit and have given testimony about how ICE raids are harming children’s ability to learn.

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 provision that will allow for construction, as well.
California correspondent Salvador Rivera discusses how wildlife could be affected by border wall construction out west.
And El Paso correspondent Julian Resendiz discusses a stunning ruling by a Mexican judge who ordered free the owner of a crematorium where hundreds of embalmed bodies remained piled in offices and a warehouse for years.

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 offenses. The judge ruled Arellano did not hide or improperly dispose of 386 bodies found by police inside a building in the Polo Gamboa neighborhood of south Juarez in June 2025.
“This resolution ignores everything we found in that building. It’s impossible this judge can say there was no hiding, no withholding of bodies when ashes were delivered to people,” Chihuahua Attorney General Cesar Jauregui said.
Some of those “ashes” were crushed rock and animal bone fragments, state and federal officials have said.

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 university police helps monitor the coastline for smuggling activity.
Phoebe Huss, a student reporter who works for CalMatters, uncovered how many police agencies throughout California are part of Operation Stonegarden, which provides agencies with funding to help fight illegal immigration.
Border Report Live spoke with Huss about her investigation and about how these agencies may be violating California’s 2017 Sanctuary Laws by working with the Border Patrol and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

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 border wall. They’re also attaching grenades and homemade bombs to them to harry rivals in southern Mexico and attack soldiers in Chihuahua.
“The use of drones on the border is not new,” said Victor Manjarrez, Jr., a former U.S. Border Patrol chief in West Texas and Arizona. “The cartels are very measured of what they do in the U.S. for fear of our response. […] But there always could be a nutcase there, a lone wolf who says, ‘I want to make my mark in life.’ That is what I fear.”
That means the cartel threat to the U.S. is real.

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 the Sinaloa cartel targeted miners, engineers and environmental specialists.
“What they are saying is they confused them with members of a rival group. Those were their initial statements and, of course, we will have more information and more detainees,” Garcia Harfuch said Tuesday at a news conference in Mexico City.

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, correspondent Julian Resendiz discusses where the search currently stands, plus how it can affect companies and other firms that do business in Mexico.
Plus, during his Halftime performance at Sunday’s Super Bowl, singer Bad Bunny handed a young boy his Grammy Award trophy.
That created speculation on social media that it was Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who, along with his father, was detained by immigration officials in Minneapolis.