It took a 19-hour road trip earlier this week for Maria Aldama to cover the distance between Kansas City to El Paso. And for that, she was rewarded with a three-minute embrace with a mother ...
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday the state of Texas will take over construction of the border wall and that all trespassers caught on the state’s southern border will be prosecuted and jailed as his efforts ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ – The figures in pale camouflage uniforms are visible in key spots along this border, from the fence jutting high above the desert in Anapra to the muddy banks of the shallow Rio ...
By David Crowder/El Paso Inc. Texas chambers of commerce and business leaders around the state, including some of the biggest companies in El Paso, are calling on Congress to establish a path to citizenship for ...
The Biden administration on Friday unveiled a new process for speeding up immigration hearings, but some advocates say this “rocket docket” approach may do more harm than good. “The first impression (of Friday’s announcement) is ...
By Mauricio Casillas/ABC-7 CIUDAD JUÁREZ — All Isela can do is hope. She’s one of dozens of migrants who have found temporary refuge at the Buen Samaritano shelter in Juárez. She fled from her home ...
The amount of oversight and accountability at an immigration detention facility housing thousands of children is “absolutely unacceptable,” U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, said after two visits to the site. The “megasite” emergency influx ...
In 2018, faced with intense criticism, the El Paso Border Patrol sector scrapped a “crowd control exercise” that was planned next to the Chihuahuita neighborhood on Nov. 6 — Election Day. The exercise was planned ...
Increased capacity at a detention center for immigrant children in El Paso is drawing fresh criticism from advocacy groups who say President Biden’s policies are no different than the hardline positions taken by his predecessor. ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ – The final days at Casa de Colores were hectic as the last residents living in the old hotel turned migrant shelter prepared to leave. “It’s a bittersweet feeling,” said Fernanda Levin, a ...
By Maria Ramos Pacheco and René Kladzyk/El Paso Matters and Veronica Martinez/La Verdad Last of a three-part series Lea esta historia en español When Melinda and her family arrived at the shelter El Buen Samaritano in November, a simple task ...
By Veronica Martinez/La Verdad and Maria Ramos Pacheco and René Kladzyk/El Paso Matters Second of a three-part series Lea esta historia en español When Melinda and her family reached the border between Ciudad Juárez and El ...
By René Kladzyk and Maria Ramos Pacheco/El Paso Matters and Veronica Martinez/La Verdad First of a three-part series Lea esta historia en español Running children and crying babies create a cacophony at El Buen Samaritano shelter, but in a far corner, Carmela ...
A new exception to a Trump-era border policy has allowed some transgender people and other members of “vulnerable populations” to enter the United States and seek asylum, the Department of Homeland Security and migrant advocacy ...
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 ...
Story by Lauren Villagran | Photos by Briana Sanchez, El Paso Times PECOS, Texas – Maria Baeza Valeriano opened her front door to the view of a closed-down hotel and an oil workers’ camp, where ...
With immigration omnipresent in international news headlines and El Paso-Juarez’s position as the literal stage on which policy debates take place, we thought it’d be a good time to provide a refresher on the vocabulary ...
Claudia Yoli Ferlas came to El Paso as an 8-year-old when she fled her native Venezuela with her mother. She has dedicated her life to encouraging other young adults to engage in politics, even though ...
By Rev. Phil Ley For the past several weeks, national attention has been focused on what is occurring at our southern border. The humanitarian crisis unfolding there is of particular interest to me because I ...
Fatima stood in the check-in area of the El Paso airport, her infant daughter in her arms, ready to begin a long-delayed effort at life in the United States. “There are many, many different feelings ...
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 ...
By Claudia Hernández/Borderless Magazine On a warm February afternoon, Susana Coreas stands outside the door of Casa de Colores in Ciudad Juárez holding a phone in one hand and a 50 peso bill in the ...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Daniela would cross the border every day from her home in Ciudad Juárez to attend the University of Texas at El Paso. “It was a normal crossing. I only had to ...
The Biden administration, facing criticism from Congress and the public over how it is responding to large numbers of migrants entering the United States, released videos on Tuesday of Border Patrol migrant centers in El ...
Update: Daniel was released from ICE detention on Sunday evening after suffering a medical crisis. He is doing much better after being taken to an El Paso migrant shelter said his legal representative, Rosa De ...
El Paso and other border cities will begin receiving migrants from the Rio Grande Valley on Monday for processing, Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, said. “What we are seeing is families continue to arrive at ...
A helicopter buzzes loudly overhead at the start of “Taste the Nation,” a 2020 food documentary TV series that centered its first episode on El Paso. “Hold that thought, I want to hear this really ...
As the Biden administration announced that the United States would begin to allow asylum seekers enrolled in Migrant Protection Protocols to cross the border, a rare sight spread across a migrant shelter in Juárez: Smiles ...
By Jesus Ayala-Candia It’s been over a month President Joe Biden first entered the hallowed halls of the White House, ushering a new era of reforms throughout America. His initial orders included a temporary halt ...
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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 ...