In the medical unit at an El Paso Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, sick detainees use a shared water fountain to take their medications. “I’m sure that they clean (the drinking fountain), but I’ve never ...
The safety of El Paso and border communities will be a priority as asylum seekers who had been trapped in Mexico are allowed to enter the United States, senior United Nations officials said in a ...
Parents the world over desire a secure environment in which to raise their children. For mothers like Fatima, it seems that security is a dream that exists just over the line that separates Mexico and ...
PALOMAS, Mexico – Jhon Jairo, a 25-year-old migrant from Ecuador, said his dream of reaching the United States ended when he fell off the border wall just west of El Paso. Pedro, 37, of Guatemala ...
Migrants trapped in Mexico for more than a year by one of former President Trump’s most controversial policies rejoiced to the news Friday that the Biden administration was ending the so-called Migrant Protection Protocols and ...
This story has been updated. Mexico’s reported decision to no longer allow the United States to return some Central American families back across the border could quickly strain El Paso’s capacity to shelter migrants, the ...
A coalition of Texas business and higher education institutions is supporting permanent legal protections for so-called Dreamers, people brought to the country as children without proper documents. But the proposal stops short of providing a ...
Catholic leaders in the Southwest, including three bishops, are calling on President Biden to institute a sweeping overhaul of immigration policies, including an emphasis on protecting migrants rather than deterring their movement. “We must urgently ...
The Inupiaq people of Wales, Alaska, have more than 120 words to describe ice. Located just below the Arctic Circle, tribal communities in the Bering Straits region are well-acquainted with frozen conditions. Yet among the ...
Migrant children without parents or guardians are crossing the El Paso-area border in increasingly large numbers, possibly portending challenges as the Biden administration looks to adjust border enforcement approaches. Border Patrol agents apprehended more than ...
Story by Rocio Gallegos/La Verdad Photographs by Alicia Fernandez Republished with permission. See the original Spanish version of the story here. Every time her petition for asylum in the United States is extended, Yaneth Blanco ...
When Joe Biden asked Rep. Veronica Escobar to endorse him last year, the El Paso Democrat said she put a condition on her support. “I told him I needed him to commit to coming to ...
When Veronica crossed the border from Juárez to El Paso last spring to turn herself in to Border Patrol agents, she was nine months pregnant and already having contractions. “(An agent) asked me if I ...
An El Paso federal judge ruled Tuesday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has failed to comply with the Freedom of Information Act and that the federal agency has made no effort to produce records ...
Torture is inherent to the United States immigration enforcement process, according to a new report released Tuesday that draws from hundreds of interviews with immigrants detained at an El Paso area Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
Jaime Esparza, who is about to step down as El Paso’s district attorney after 28 years, is seeking to be appointed as the top federal prosecutor in West Texas. Esparza, 63, says he has applied ...
More than 1,200 COVID-19 cases in El Paso can be attributed to community spread caused by ICE’s failure to contain COVID-19 at its facilities, a new study says. Published this month by Detention Watch Network, ...
On Thanksgiving morning, while many El Pasoans were baking pies and prepping turkeys, Jesus “Chuy” Reyes was in the midst of a standoff at the American Canal Extension near Downtown El Paso, where construction workers ...
An El Paso immigrant detention facility has the largest current detainee COVID-19 outbreak of any Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facility in the United States. As of Nov. 30, 44 detainees at El Paso Service Processing ...
The letters pouring out from El Paso’s ICE immigration detention facility all begin the same way: “To Whom It May Concern.” Open letters, they are sent to the world at large, scrawled in careful cursive ...
As El Paso has suffered one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the country, local jails and immigrant detention facilities have also struggled to control the spread of the virus among prisoners, detainees and staff. ...
As more than 220,000 El Pasoans went to vote early in recent weeks, one woman had to sit on the sidelines. Martha, a Mexican immigrant in the process of applying for U.S. citizenship, could not ...
By Melissa Martinez The “American Dream” is something I know a little bit about. As an immigrant who came to this country as a small child, my parents made sacrifices to provide a better future ...
Children caught in political limbo in Ciudad Juárez, and a global pandemic, are now doing what many others around the world have been doing since earlier this year — logging in to virtual classes. “I ...
UPDATE: América was freed from ICE detention on Monday evening, Oct. 26. Her attorney, Heidi Cerneka, said she can live in the United States and cannot be deported to Guatemala unless a determination is made ...
Kevin, a 23-year-old trans man, decided to come to the United States because of gender-based discrimation and trauma that he experienced in his home country, Cuba. He thought that sort of thing didn’t happen in ...
By Rep. Mary González If your child’s pediatrician told you that your actions were “counterproductive and threaten the short- and long-term health” of your child, how would you respond? Like most parents, you would immediately ...
El Paso ICE facilities have experienced fluctuating cases of COVID-19 among detainees since the start of the pandemic. At first, public outcry resulted in the appearance of heightened accountability in dealing responsibly with the deadly ...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement failed to perform an adequate search for records sought by an El Paso nonprofit legal organization and didn’t justify redactions in some of the documents it did release, a federal judge ...
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