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 ...
Two El Paso-area Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities are seeing new large outbreaks in COVID-19 cases among detained migrants. As of July 21, El Paso Service Processing Center had 75 current confirmed cases and ...
By Gabriela Minjares/La Verdad Second in a four-part series CIUDAD JUAREZ – María, after making a trip of about 3,000 kilometers to get to this border to cross over to the United States, found her ...
By Gabriela Minjares and Blanca Carmona / La Verdad First of a four-part series En español: Lea el informe de La Verdad sobre la violencia contra migrantes en México CIUDAD JUAREZ – A couple who ...
From the bank of the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juárez, Ivan Ocon squinted toward the Paso del Norte Bridge with a grim expression. “I had read the only way I could come home was dead,” ...
Despite an increased effort to vaccinate migrants held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, a large number of people in El Paso-area ICE detention have refused the vaccine, according to local officials and legal advocates. ...
Poor conditions, allegations of sexual abuse and “gross mismanagement” continue to plague the Fort Bliss detention camp for migrant children, according to a new report and statements from former staff. The allegations come despite a recent ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced the agenda Wednesday for a special legislative session that includes measures concerning border security, transgender children in sports, critical race theory, medication abortion and more. Set to begin at 10:00 ...
By Beto O’Rourke I’m from the border city of El Paso. My parents and grandparents, too. We trace our time in this region back to my great-grandparents, Irish immigrants who followed railroad jobs from Missouri, ...
When Bishop Mark Seitz visited the Fort Bliss tent facility for unaccompanied migrant children Sunday, he was only able to conduct one mass instead of the scheduled two because of record-setting rain that has drenched ...
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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 ...