As COVID-19 surges in El Paso — with a record high 2,294 new cases reported by the city on Friday — the impact on hospital staffing levels is unclear. Providing few details about the number ...
6:05 p.m. Jan. 11: This story has been updated with information on current staffing levels and demand at El Paso’s COVID-19 testing sites. The parking lot is empty and lights are off at Savage Goods, ...
The omicron variant’s arrival in El Paso has brought the all-too-familiar questions of how to balance risk and quality of life in uncertain times. While there are still unanswered questions about this new COVID-19 variant, ...
Rising community spread of COVID-19 has begun to result in staffing shortages in El Paso testing facilities and other government functions. At the city’s COVID-19 testing megasites, 20% of staff are currently out sick with ...
Jan. 5, 12:20 p.m.: This story has been updated to include comment from the Executive Office for Immigration Review on providing legal services to people placed in Migrant Protection Protocols. Plastic chairs line the hallways ...
As a presidential candidate, Joe Biden emphasized how different his immigration policy would be from that of former President Donald Trump, promising to “take urgent action to undo Trump’s damage.” But after nearly a year ...
Seizures of fentanyl by the Drug Enforcement Administration within the city of El Paso rose 456% between the fiscal years 2020 and 2021 — from 32 kilograms to 178 kilograms — and El Paso DEA ...
Officials have seized massive quantities of illegal narcotics at El Paso ports of entry since the beginning of December, part of an ongoing trend of heightened drug flows into the United States and rising deaths ...
When the Department of Homeland Security announced details of the reimplementation of Migrant Protection Protocols, officials said the U.S. government will work with Mexican authorities to ensure “safe and secure” housing for asylum seekers enrolled ...
The Department of Homeland Security began the reimplementation of Migrant Protection Protocols in El Paso Monday after a federal judge forced the Biden administration to revive the controversial immigration policy commonly also known as “remain ...
The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that the controversial Migrant Protection Protocols — commonly referred to as ‘remain in Mexico’ — will be re-implemented in El Paso and other border communities Monday. The Trump-era ...
Winston Churchill once remarked, “We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.” In El Paso, the buildings that help set the stages of our lives contain their own special histories and reflect the complex local ...
Paulina Reza boarded a flight from Ciudad Juárez to El Paso in spring 2020. She flew from Ciudad Juárez to Mexico City, to Los Angeles, to Houston, and finally to El Paso, all so that ...
The El Paso Border Patrol Sector saw staggering increases in migrant deaths and rescues in fiscal year 2021, reflecting national trends of a deadly year for migrants, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border ...
After nearly 20 months of border-travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, officials offered details Friday about Monday’s reopening of ports of entry to “non-essential travel” for vaccinated foreign nationals. Beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday, ...
Update 12:20 p.m., Oct. 26: This story has been updated with further comment from El Paso Independent School District. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott quietly signed legislation on Monday that bans transgender children from participating in ...
This story has been updated to include comment from U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar. Attorneys General Ken Paxton of Texas and Eric Schmitt of Missouri visited the border wall at the western edge of El Paso ...
On most days, Michael Buchanan can be found hanging out on the sidewalk next door to Punto de Partida, the opioid crisis center on Yandell Street east of Downtown El Paso. The 65-year-old is in ...
While pandemic-related border travel restrictions will end for foreign nationals with required documents and vaccinations, there is no end in sight to COVID-19 restrictions for migrants who present themselves at the border to seek asylum. ...
Seizures of fentanyl and overdose deaths caused by the potent narcotic have skyrocketed in El Paso, as in much of the nation. But along with the rise in a very real public health crisis has ...
ORALE, a discount clothing store on El Paso Street that sits just steps away from the Paso del Norte Bridge, has long-relied on foot traffic from Mexican consumers to stay afloat. Like many of the ...
The mass expulsion of Haitian migrants in late September put increased attention on the Biden administration’s use of a contentious Trump-era practice — the rapid expulsion of migrants through Title 42, a provision of public ...
More than 1,200 migrants who crossed the border in Del Rio, Texas, were released from federal custody into El Paso between Thursday and Sunday, often with little warning, Annunciation House founder Ruben Garcia said during ...
El Paso non-governmental organizations have begun receiving Haitian migrants released from U.S. Department of Homeland Security custody. More than 100 Haitian migrants who had entered the United States through Del Rio, Texas, were received by ...
Revelations of an alleged antisemitic motive to a gruesome crime in El Paso have carried painful impacts for El Paso’s Jewish community, local Jewish leaders say. Almost a year passed before an arrest was made ...
A coalition of El Paso advocacy groups and leaders held a “March for Our Dignity” protest through Downtown Thursday afternoon, condemning the treatment of Haitian migrants by the Border Patrol and demanding a humane process ...
It took nearly a year for an arrest to be made in the gruesome shooting of an El Paso couple in their home on the edge of Memorial Park in Central El Paso. Georgette Kaufmann, ...
Following the arrival of thousands of Haitian migrants to the small Texas border city of Del Rio, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has begun transporting Haitians to El Paso as part of a mass ...
Viewed from above, the two sites housing foreign nationals on Fort Bliss look similar. They’re both a maze of white tents plopped onto a dusty desert terrain, with tiny specks of humans bustling in between. ...
Esperanza Para Todos on the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez needs more beds. It needs portable toilets and showers, too. Like many of the shelters in Ciudad Juárez, Esperanza Para Todos is straining to keep up ...
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