Personnel from Mexico's National Institute of Migration (INM) are asking the agency to provide them with bulletproof vests for fear of being attacked by cartels and smugglers along the border.
The Mexican government says it is sending another 2,100 troops to Juarez, in addition to the 400 that arrived last week to help police patrol the streets amid a spike in homicides and other violent crimes.
It was a year ago that Juan Ciscomani first brought a congressional delegation to witness the impact of illegal immigration on border communities in southern Arizona.
Two men are in federal custody after at least one of them drove an SUV carrying unauthorized migrants without stopping at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 25 near Las Cruces, New Mexico.