Saul Saenz
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El Paso, TX, United States
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ABC-7 Xtra: Dee Margo comments on calls to recall reps who want city manager fired
EL PASO, Texas-(KVIA) --Former El Paso mayor Dee Margo says people are calling him saying they want city representatives who voted to fire city manager, Tommy Gonzalez and are unwilling to explain the reasons why should be recalled. "My phone and text messages have been ringing off the hook, literally, about people saying I want → Read More
El Paso Inc. honors Zuill Bailey with 2022 Community Spirit Award
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- He’s known worldwide, but more importantly, Grammy-award-winning Zuill Bailey makes no secret about calling the Borderland home. It’s been said that human heartstrings hold the deepest emotions or affections. Listening to Zuill Bailey play, you get the sense this Grammy-award-winning cellist masterfully transforms these cello strings into heartstrings, stimulating the → Read More
El Paso Inc. names Woody and Gayle Hunt as 2022 El Pasoans of the year
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- El Paso Inc. has named Woody and Gayle Hunt 2022 El Pasoans of the Year. Few El Pasoans have given more to the enrichment of the Borderland than Woody and Gayle Hunt. In 2010, the Hunt Family Foundation donated $10 million to Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso → Read More
Sunday ABC-7 Xtra-Cielo Vista Mall shooting
EL PASO, Texas -- Sunday on ABC-7 Xtra, host Saul Saenz talks to an FBI agent, District Attorney Bill Hicks and mental wellness expert Dr. Aisha Shariq about the shooting at the Cielo Vista Mall food court. Many in the Borderland were shaken to the core after learning about another shooting on Cielo Vista grounds. → Read More
Efforts underway to get riders back in Wyler Tramway gondolas for breath-taking views
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- Texas has only one aerial tramway, and it's located in our backyard. The problem is it was grounded in 2018 for safety reasons. There is a big push to get the Wyler Aerial Tramway up and running again, with legislative dollars already on the way and legislators pushing for more. → Read More
Special report: Mounted Border Patrol
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas -- The Borderland is accustomed to watching apprehensions along the border, sometimes very close to home. But migrant encounters extend to our neighbors in Hudspeth and Culberson counties, areas where roads and trails vanish into arroyos, mountain cliffs and thorny brush as far as the eye can see. This area is accessible → Read More
ABC-7 takes you inside nation's largest livestock port of entry; located in the Borderland
SANTA TERESA, New Mexico - Few people have seen the Borderland's best-kept secret. Santa Teresa is home to the largest livestock port of entry in the U.S. It's where prime beef cattle cross from Mexico into the U.S. “This crossing point is the biggest crossing point of all the Americas, and it's the biggest one → Read More
Texas's oldest serving judge talks about plans after retiring at age 95
HUDSPETH COUNTY -- Hudspeth County is home to a man who could be the oldest serving judge in Texas. Thomas D. Neely, 95, is the Hudspeth County judge. But unlike the El Paso county judge, this county judge oversees misdemeanors, like driving while intoxicated cases. Judge Neely was born in Sierra Blanca 95 years ago → Read More
YISD students are back in school; So are a few familiar faces
El Paso, Texas -- Retired teachers are going back into the workforce. YISD Superintendent Xavier De La Torre says the district, under normal circumstances, has a much larger pool of teachers at the start of the new school year. This year, he says that's not the case. He attributes the smaller group of potential teachers → Read More
ABC-7 Xtra: El Paso, Uvalde bonded by tragedy
EL PASO, Texas-In the days following the Uvalde shooting, Governor Greg Abbott was front and center holding news conferences. El Paso had a similar visit after the Cielo Vista Walmart shooting. Governor Abbott came to El Paso to listen to our state legislative delegation, as well as the families of those shot on that day. → Read More
County Judge, Ricardo Samaniego feeling grief over Uvalde, Texas shooting
EL PASO, Texas-El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego tells ABC-7 he was overcome with grief when he learned about the Uvalde, Texas school shooting. Samaniego says he had to leave his office on the third floor of the El Paso county courthouse to try to recover emotionally. The county judge says this shooting comes just → Read More
City does not take action on challenging mayor's veto, once again extends city manager's contract
EL PASO, Texas – El Paso city representatives voted not to discuss the Mayor's veto last week regarding the City Manager's contract extension but instead continued discussion regarding the city manager's current contract. The Mayor last week vetoed a contract extension approved by the council last Monday during a special meeting. Instead of attempting to → Read More
Border Patrol braces for new chapter post Title 42
EL PASO, Texas – Undocumented migrants attempting to cross the border is nothing new for Border Patrol agents working along the El Paso sector of the southwest border. What is changing is the sheer number of migrants and the technology they're using to make the trek across. That was evident when ABC-7's Saul Saenz rode → Read More
ABC-7 Xtra guests discuss El Paso city manager contract and possible payout
EL PASO, Texas - ABC-7 broke the news earlier in the week that city manager, Tommy Gonzalez, is one of four finalists for a similar position in Frisco, Texas. City leaders will meet Monday during a special city council meeting to discuss Gonzalez's contract; whether to sweeten the deal to keep him or discuss his → Read More
El Paso city council calls special meeting to discuss city attorney, city manager positions
EL PASO, Texas – Following the revelation that El Paso City Manager Tommy Gonzalez is a finalist for a similar job in Frisco, Texas, El Paso's city council will hold a special meeting Monday, May 16, at 9 a.m. to discuss and review the annual performance evaluations of the city attorney and city manager. ABC-7 → Read More
Mother: Child left inside sweltering East El Paso daycare bus asleep, unattended
EL PASO, Texas - One El Paso mother is furious after learning her 7-year-old son was forgotten and left inside a sweltering daycare bus. The incident happened Friday. 7-year-old Jason Escajeda had fallen asleep after being picked up from his elementary school and taken to the daycare center on the Eastside. He woke up only → Read More
Preparations underway for lifting of Title 42
EL PASO, Texas - El Paso government and social services are bracing for a surge of migrants once Title 42 is permitted to expire. Title 42 is a CDC health order giving Customs and Border Protection officers and Border Patrol agents the power to expel migrants without processing them if they believe they are infected with → Read More
Brief migrant protest blocks southbound pedestrian traffic at Stanton Port of Entry
EL PASO, Texas – A brief protest momentarily disrupted southbound pedestrian traffic at the Stanton Bridge this morning according to US Border Patrol officials in the El Paso sector. Officials say the migrants, who tried to illegally cross the border between ports of entry, were expelled under Title 42, a Center for Disease Control authority → Read More
Sunday ABC-7 Xtra: Migrant surge expected after lifting of Title 42
EL PASO, Texas - Most El Pasoans may recall the migrant surge in 2019, when hundreds of migrants would walk right up to the border barrier and surrender to border patrol agents. Many of those migrants were requesting asylum. Agents were overwhelmed driving from one end of the barrier to another, picking up those migrants and taking → Read More
El Paso man arrested for child pornography
EL PASO, Texas - A man arrested by SWAT members Wednesday faces child exploitation charges in federal court. Video of the arrest was provided to ABC-7 by a reliable source of Marcus Derrick Broadnax being taken into custody by an interagency child exploitation task force. Broadnax was charged in federal court today for having and → Read More