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 ...
U.S. District Judge Philip Martinez, a jurist who presided over several major cases in 19 years on the federal bench, died suddenly Friday night, friends and associates said. He was 63. Martinez grew up in ...
The Supreme Court on Monday gave El Paso’s Tigua Indians at least a small victory in their long-running gambling fight with the state of Texas, asking the Justice Department for the first time to weigh ...
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 ...
If we could imagine a line of all the Americans who desire the coronavirus vaccine, where in line are those who are imprisoned? Are they to make up the rear? After healthy and young Americans? ...
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 ...
The El Paso Police Department can’t account for more than half the internal reports it says are regularly conducted to track performance, according to documents obtained by El Paso Matters through the Texas Public Information ...
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 ...
Arturo Mireles lost his job at a call center when COVID-19 hit El Paso. He received an eviction notice in December and by Jan. 29, Mireles was homeless. “They came with the troopers, the constables, ...
An effort to redistrict and reduce courts of appeals in Texas could have major implications for El Pasoans. Texas currently has 14 courts of appeals throughout the state, including the 8th Court of Appeals that ...
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 ...
By James Revels February is Black History Month, a time that allows us the opportunity to reflect on the achievements of a significant portion of our population, who entered the American melting pot from the ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
By the Rt. Rev. Michael Hunn Part of my job as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande, a diocese of the Episcopal Church consisting of the state of New Mexico and Far ...
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 ...
Three El Paso nonprofit organizations are receiving $34 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, part of $4.2 billion she is giving to 384 groups nationally. El Pasoans Fighting Hunger, the United Way of El Paso County ...
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. ...
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 ...
El Paso city leaders responded to nationwide concerns over policing with a resolution that “seeks to encourage the elimination of racial disparities and improve law enforcement interactions” and called for a review of use-of-force policies ...
El Paso County’s two jails are experiencing another wave of COVID-19 cases, with 30 inmates and five detention officers having current active cases as of Wednesday, state records show. The jails had reported nine active ...
By Pat Thompson In 1957, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus activated his National Guard to block nine black students from entering Little Rock High School. President Eisenhower responded by ordering the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division ...
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 ...
El Paso County commissioners on Monday approved contributing $275,000 to a partnership that will provide emergency financial assistance to El Pasoans, with a focus on helping people excluded from earlier pandemic stimulus funds. The Woody ...
Northeast El Paso City Council candidate Shawnson “Shawn” Nixon was arrested Friday on charges that he issued bad checks to fund his campaign, police said in a text to the media. He was taken into ...
By Sandra Nevárez García Domestic violence is one of the most prevalent and underreported forms of abuse across the globe. The pandemic has affected so many aspects of our daily lives, especially those living in ...
El Paso Matters Voters Guide
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By JJ Martinez I wish that it were possible to write a proper rebuttal to Ryan James Solis’ essay “The ethics of prisoner vaccination.” As El Paso continues to struggle with COVID-19 and the disparities ...