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A Mexican judge has handed down a 12-year, 3-month prison sentence for a trucker who plowed into several roadside food stands, killing 10 people while under the influence of drugs a year ago in this town 80 miles south of Juarez.

Over the last few weeks, drivers have been reporting up to three-hour delays to cross the border into Tijuana from the San Diego region.

González Vaca says it's not practical to unearth 13,000 remains now in common graves, that the bodies brought to the new cemetery will be those that come into medical examiners' offices and go unidentified in the future.

“We have to make sure the American public knows the Palestinians are not the same thing as Hamas. But the Palestinians are paying the price right now.” U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas

EDINBURG, Texas (Border Report) — Texas lawmakers on Thursday considered strict immigration-related legislation that would allow peace officers to send migrants who enter the state illegally back across the border. The Texas House State Affairs Committee held a day-long public hearing on two measures, including HB 4, which would create new state criminal charges for […]

Tijuana's downtown, a popular stop among tourists, remains the most unsafe area in the city according to statistics released by Baja Californian's Secretary of Public Safety.

"It's making it a lot more difficult to work as a truck operator," said Millán Chávez. "As a human being, having to wait five to seven hours in line without using the bathroom or having food and water is not easy."

Contaminated drinking water in poor colonias is drawing new attention to what many say is an old problem for the substandard neighborhoods found on the Southwest border with Mexico.

"We go searching every Sunday for our children," said García. "We go to hillsides, landfills, the beach, places we never imagined we'd check out -- we traded our Sundays with our families for shovels and digging bars to go search because authorities don't do anything."

Hours-long border waits for people heading into the U.S. in the morning are the norm at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, but now commuters are facing similar delays when returning to Mexico in the evening.