Ana sat with her two children on a curb just steps from the Paso del Norte Bridge in downtown Ciudad Juárez, considering her options and crushing debt. “Truthfully, I’d like to try again,” said Ana, hours ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ — This border city is struggling to shelter the growing number of migrants who are expelled from the United States through the Paso del Norte Bridge daily, many who arrived on flights from ...
A year after the U.S. border was closed to all non-essential travel, the pandemic has underscored an informal economy that many fronterizos prefer not to talk about even as they struggle to adapt to a ...
Every time Gina Ramos looks at her teddy bear, she remembers her father. The bear is a deep indigo color, made from one of her father’s shirts. “It’s a blue shirt I had given him ...
PALOMAS, Mexico – Jhon Jairo, a 25-year-old migrant from Ecuador, said his dream of reaching the United States ended when he fell off the border wall just west of El Paso. Pedro, 37, of Guatemala ...
The phone is ringing off the hook and people are lined up outside of Bowie Bakery in West El Paso. The shop is only allowing three customers inside at a time as a COVID-19 precaution. ...
Twinkling holiday lights cast a warm glow and Christmas carols blare from speakers at the Outlet Shoppes of El Paso. But in these pandemic times, something is missing from the traditional holiday scene on the ...
The holidays during the pandemic are filled with anxiety and heartache that extends to both sides of the border. In Juárez, the Castillo family is in mourning confronting the first Christmas without their patriarch. “He ...
El Paso is struggling with contact tracing, a crucial means of slowing the spread of COVID-19, as it experiences one of the nation’s worst outbreaks of the disease. In recent weeks, the number of people ...
Tito Anchondo met with President Donald Trump in the days after his brother and sister-in-law were killed in the Aug. 3, 2019, mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart. The president and first lady Melania ...
In addition to having an additional week for early voting, so three weeks instead of two, what else should voters know? We will have 35 (early voting) locations across the county. We were going to ...
It’s been more than six months since the U.S.-Mexico border closed to all but essential travel to slow the spread of COVID-19. The disruption of lives and livelihoods has been widespread in El Paso and ...
Smuggling attempts at the U.S.-Mexico border during the COVID-19 pandemic include more than drugs. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at international bridges are also finding a popular contraband comfort food stashed in vehicles — ...
William Englisbee embodies the quiet strength of the city he calls home. “Every day’s a struggle,” Englisbee said at Evergreen Cemetery East, where he was paying respects to his mother. Angelina Maria Silva de Englisbee ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ – As El Paso Bishop Mark J. Seitz crossed the border to visit migrants stuck in this city, his mind was on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier that day upholding a law ...
The frantic phone calls came in a cluster. In less than 24 hours multiple women reached out to me from inside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in El Paso. They expressed a mix ...
Angela Kocherga interviewed Ron Stallworth about the current state of policing in the wake of global protests following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Stallworth is a law enforcement veteran and author of “Black ...
As testing increases in El Paso, contact tracing is the next critical step to prevent the spread of COVID-19. On the border, those close contacts can include relatives, friends and coworkers in two countries. “This ...
Carmen Lugo cannot imagine being cooped up during the COVID-19 quarantine without her best friend. “She’s turned out to be the best little dog. She does everything but talk,” Lugo said. Bunny was a “ball ...
This story is a collaboration between La Verdad Juárez and El Paso Matters. It is reported by Angela Kocherga for El Paso Matters and Martín Orquiz for La Verdad. CIUDAD JUAREZ — Chihuahua State Police ...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has set up protocols that include separating detainees in the El Paso Processing Center and other detention facilities where there are cases of COVID-19. ICE outlined its procedures in a statement ...
Women held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso are expressing growing concern after several detainees tested positive for COVID-19. ICE has confirmed five positive cases but the number of people exposed to the virus ...
Raul Rosales, a supervisor at a Lear Corporation maquiladora in Ciudad Juárez, died in an El Paso hospital of COVID-19 early Tuesday. “My father became an angel this morning,” Monica Rosales said in announcing his ...
As he struggled to breathe in a Ciudad Juárez hospital, Raul Rosales and his wife Claudia exchanged messages saying good-bye. Their daughter Monica texted heart emojis and photos of his grandson Matias. “My baby is ...
Chihuahua State health authorities confirmed 11 of the 16 confirmed COVID-19 deaths in Ciudad Juárez are maquiladora factory workers. “We are in constant communication with the maquiladora industry,” said said Dr. Arturo Valenzuela, Chihuahua state ...
Border manufacturers are teaming up in an unusual race to provide life-saving medical supplies and devices during the COVID-19 crisis. The timing couldn’t be more critical. “Our message is simple,” said Cecilia Levine, founder of ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ – Pharmacies in Juárez are facing a run by El Pasoans and other U.S. residents looking to buy hydroxychloroquine, one of the drugs the president has touted as a possible treatment for COVID-19. ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ — Health authorities in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez pride themselves on working together as a region on a range of public health issues that span the border. But the response to the ...
The Trejo family has been careful about handwashing and using hand-sanitizer to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but when it came time to part ways near the Paso del Norte international bridge, they hugged ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ – Protesters in Ciudad Juárez joined others across Mexico on International Women’s Day in marching to demand justice amid escalating violence against women and girls. About 500 demonstrators gathered at the Paso del ...
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