One morning two years ago, I was at the Montana Avenue Border Patrol station and Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention complex, in the courtroom of Immigration Judge William Abbott. He reviews evidence there from immigrants ...
“But what about Hitler?” People often ask this when I tell them I’m totally against the death penalty. For the past year, El Pasoans who oppose capital punishment have been asking, “But what about Patrick ...
Thomas “T.J.” Johnson’s African-American family moved to El Paso from the Midwest in the 1980s, when he was a teenager. He graduated from Andress High School and spent two years at UTEP in the early ...
At Sunday night’s massive protest against the death of George Floyd, El Paso police used tear gas against attendees, as well as a weapon many in the community had not heard of until now, much ...
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Eleven years ago, Yobani Barceñas Rumualdo, an undocumented Mexican man in his early 20s, was charged in South Texas with conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery. He was convicted and sent to Huntsville. After he served ...