An Arizona judge sentenced an Iraqi immigrant on Friday to more than 34 years in prison, about two months after his conviction for running over his 20-year-old daughter because he claimed she'd become "too Westernized."
The father of a 20-year-old woman from Iraq, run over because she allegedly had become "too Westernized," was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder.
Faleh Hassan Almaleki is found guilty of killing his daughter for becoming "too Westernized."
Sentencing testimony begins Wednesday in the case of an Iraqi man who was convicted of running over his 20-year-old daughter because she allegedly had become "too Westernized."
The fight between people smugglers and U.S. patrols also takes place in a network of tunnels under the border.
As night falls, U.S border patrol agents know smugglers will use the dark to sneak into the country with illegal immigrants and drugs -- both above and below ground.
Federal authorities are investigating the events surrounding the death of a teenager during an altercation between Border Patrol agents trying to arrest alleged drug smugglers and rock-throwing bystanders, an FBI spokesman said Wednesday.
The U.S. Border Patrol agent killed Tuesday night in Arizona was shot after he confronted a group of bandits believed to be preying on illegal immigrants in the desert north of the border, the head of the Border Patrol union said Wednesday.
The mayor of Nogales, Arizona, was arrested Tuesday on charges he took bribes to protect contracts or obtain business contracts with the city, the state attorney general said.
The U.S. State Department has renewed a travel warning for Mexico due to drug-related violence, particularly in the northern border areas.
A shootout near the U.S.-Mexico border between rival groups with ties to organized crime left 21 people dead Thursday, Mexican police officials said.
CNN's Thelma Gutierrez reports that Mexican drug cartels are now threatening police by name on Arizona's border.
Mario Morales keeps his Commando assault rifle propped up on the seat of his patrol vehicle. The car snakes along a dirt road about a half-mile from the Mexican border.
Drug cartels are making direct death threats to U.S. law enforcement officials in Nogales, Arizona, the police chief there told CNN.
Authorities shut down part of a highway in southern Arizona Friday because of a suspicious vehicle, state authorities said.
Immigration agents dismantle alleged human smuggling organizations in a "massive" operation. CNN's Casey Wian reports.
Criminal defendants are expected to make initial appearances in federal courts in Phoenix and Tucson on Friday in connection with what one federal agency calls the largest human smuggling investigation in its history.
The Texas Department of Public Safety took the unprecedented step Thursday of telling college students not to visit Mexican border cities during spring break because they are just too dangerous.
An Iraqi man accused of running down his daughter in Arizona because she had become "too Westernized" is being held on two counts of aggravated assault, police said Saturday.
For years, children from Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, have attended schools across the border in Del Rio, Texas, but this week that changed for students who cannot prove residency.
An English-language immersion class failed Miriam Flores, her mother contended.
The Black Hawk helicopter swoops across the hot, windblown Arizona desert and settles onto a cement pad.
Authorities have found a massive underground drug smuggling tunnel snaking through the U.S.-Mexican border, and law officers are marveling over its sophistication.
Nogales, Arizona, is a small city. Just more than 20,000 people live here, according to the 2005 census. But spend a couple of days here with law enforcement, and your head will spin.
Ten suspected drug dealers have been killed in a gunbattle with police in northern Mexico across the border from Arizona, authorities said.
Four men were shot dead in front of a crowd at an amusement park, a toddler died after the car he was traveling in crashed during a gunbattle, and a businessman was killed after leading a protest against violence, officials said Thursday
Crime wave in Mexico sparks security equipment sales across the country. CNN's Harris Whitbeck reports.
While U.S. citizens will be required to show proof of identification and citizenship at land and sea borders beginning January 31, the truly big changes will occur in June of 2009 when more stringent requirements take effect.
Pilot error was to blame in the April 2006 crash of an unmanned aircraft, despite the fact no pilot was on board, the National Transportation Safety Board said in its accident report issued Tuesday -- the NTSB's first-ever investigation into an incident involving a drone.
EVERY WEEKDAY morning at 5:30, Guadalupe Mendosa, 35, a stocky woman with a sixth-grade education, awakens in a tiny house outside Tijuana. She prepares breakfast for her brother and mother and the...
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