Mujer aún desconocida alrededor de 13 años localizada el 10-9-95 Lote Bravo. Carla Berges can’t find an explanation for the words she embroidered on a handkerchief-sized cloth panel to memorialize a victim of femicide in ...
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday on all three counts stemming from last year’s murder of George Floyd. Here’s a sampling of reactions from El Pasoans. Abeni Merriweather, 19, sophomore, commercial music ...
The El Paso County Sheriff’s Department has established three crisis intervention teams to help keep El Pasoans dealing with mental health emergencies away from jail. Crisis intervention teams are designed to improve law enforcement officers’ ...
A controversial bill designed to redistrict and reduce the courts of appeals in Texas has been withdrawn after it drew sharp criticism during a public hearing in Austin last week. Senate Bill 11, filed by ...
The day after the César Chávez holiday, labor and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta sat down virtually to speak with El Paso Community Center students. “El Paso is one of my favorite places in the ...
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 ...
By Rocío Gallegos, Verónica Martínez, Gabriela Minjares/La Verdad Land crossing restrictions imposed by the United States on its border with Mexico by COVID-19 disrupted the dynamics of students, tourists, buyers, formal and informal workers, and ...
With two full years in operation, the El Paso Police Department’s Crisis Intervention Team has helped divert hundreds of El Pasoans dealing with a mental health crisis away from jail, but officials say gaps in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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By Sheriff Richard Wiles I am extremely pleased with the result of the trial for the murderer of George Floyd. As I have mentioned previously, watching the horrific video of Mr. Floyd being unlawfully killed ...