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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
On a 105-degree-day in early June 2018, three Guatemalans were stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the top of a bridge linking El Paso and Ciudad Juárez and told they would not ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A new report details “deeply troubling failures” by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the 2019 death of a Guatemalan boy in the agency’s custody, including the creation of false records suggesting he was monitored ...
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 ...
Nearly 10,000 Afghans are currently being housed at the Doña Ana Range Complex on Fort Bliss, 35 miles north of Downtown El Paso, the post commander said during a press conference Friday. The complex has undergone ...
A large family from Michoacan, Mexico walked across the Paso del Norte international bridge into Downtown El Paso on the morning of Sept. 1, clutching papers with proof of negative COVID-19 tests and guided by ...
A major effort is underway at Fort Bliss to support the growing numbers of refugees arriving from Afghanistan, and some local groups are now asking the El Paso community to help. “As we always do, ...
Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and the ACLU of New Mexico on Thursday demanded that U.S. Customs and Border Protection investigate an Aug. 3 crash, when a migrant smuggler lost control ...
Update 4:10 p.m.: This story now includes comment from the ACLU. An El Paso federal judge on Thursday issued an injunction blocking Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order that barred aid groups and others from transporting ...
Just off the I-10 exit for Airway Boulevard, sandwiched between a Starbucks and a Hampton Inn and Suites, sits one of El Paso’s newest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities. Until a couple of months ...
The reinstatement of the controversial “remain in Mexico” program was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday after it denied an appeal by the Biden administration. The judge’s order forces the administration to begin reimplementing ...
The total capacity for Afghan refugees who will be temporarily housed at Fort Bliss and other U.S. military bases will increase to 50,000, Col. Martin L. O’Donnell of the United States Army North confirmed Tuesday. ...
Update at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 23: Pentagon officials briefly described plans for Afghan refugees to be housed at U.S. military bases, including Fort Bliss, during a press briefing Monday. Pentagon press secretary John F. ...
While crowded planes take flight from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, local leaders and advocates in El Paso said they are in the dark about what a new Afghan refugee population might mean ...
On President Biden’s first day in office, he fulfilled a campaign promise by suspending the Trump-era “remain in Mexico” program. Now, a federal court ruling may bring the controversial policy back, despite objections by border ...
A temporary restraining order blocking Gov. Greg Abbott’s efforts to bar non-governmental vehicles from transporting migrants released from government custody will be extended another two weeks, an El Paso federal judge ruled Friday. U.S. District ...
From a young age, Milord always planned to study agriculture. He wanted to cultivate his family’s land near Saint-Marc, Haiti, and to help rebuild his country. But the 36-year-old now finds himself in vastly different ...
An El Paso federal judge on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order to block a Texas executive order restricting the transportation of migrants. United States District Judge Kathleen Cardone’s ruling found that the Texas measure ...
El Paso filmmaker Juan Paul Flores Vazquez was brought to the United States from Mexicali, Mexico, when he was 3. At age 16, he became a recipient of the federal Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals ...
By Verónica Martínez/La Verdad Last of a four-part series CIUDAD JUAREZ – Nicole hung a poster of her name in pink letters on the wall between two portraits her mother, Ruth, had drawn to decorate ...
By Blanca Carmona/La Verdad Third of a four-part series CIUDAD JUAREZ – For a few days, Lesby and her husband, Félix, believed they had already crossed the border, that at last, after a long journey ...
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By Linda Corchado I knew a different border as a child growing up in El Paso in the 1990s. A drive across the Bridge of the Americas to visit my doctor was as fluid as ...