Jose Mendoza, one of the family members who survived the attack, told FOX25 that on Saturday night, the family was on a two-lane highway paralleling the U.S.-Mexico border in Ciudad Mier.

Withing walking distance of the port of entry at Roma, a Lions Club community center in a tiny Mexican town is the temporary home to hundreds to citizens fleeing drug violence in Ciudad Mier ...

“Ciudad Mier has bounced back again and again after several beatings, and it will again this time,” says Sergio Higareda, the director of the city’s cultural center, ...

This photo, provided by a resident of Ciudad Mier who did not want to be identified, shows a burned-out police station in the town. A brutal turf war between the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas drug ...

A resident of Ciudad Mier, who has U.S. citizenship and has taken refuge in Roma, Texas, sent a message out over Twitter yesterday for donations for the refugees who number about 300.

For years Ciudad Mier was the uppermost edge of the Gulf cartel’s control and Nueva Ciudad Guerrero was the limit for the Nuevo Laredo-based Zetas’. Between them sit uninhabited scrub land.

For years Ciudad Mier was the uppermost edge of the Gulf cartel’s control and Nueva Ciudad Guerrero was the limit for the Nuevo Laredo-based Zetas’. Between them sits uninhabited scrub land.

CIUDAD MIER, Mexico — With drum rolls and cannon blasts, President Felipe Calderón on Thursday inaugurated temporary military barracks in the heart of one of the drug war's bloodiest turf ...

CIUDAD MIER, Mexico - Shell casings carpet the road outside a bullet-riddled subdivision on the outskirts of this colonial town in the Rio Grande Valley, abandoned by most of the ...

Mexican soldiers kill 30 in troubled border state Dozens of suspected cartel members are dead after two shootouts in Ciudad Mier and Nuevo Leon ...

Border & Immigration Ghost Town Just a few miles across the Rio Grande, the residents of Ciudad Mier lived in terror, forgotten by their government and at the mercy of drug cartels.

CIUDAD MIGUEL ALEMAN, Mexico — More than 300 men, women and children from the colonial ranching town of Ciudad Mier, a 10-minute drive from Texas, have taken refuge in the Lion's Club in this ...