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 ...
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 ...
A security company and a temporary employment agency say El Paso City Council candidate Shawn Nixon owes them more than $280,000 from bad checks and unpaid invoices from this summer. Nixon’s campaign has faced repeated ...
U.S.-Mexico border travel restrictions have not only affected lawful cross-border activity, but also illicit border crossings, including smuggling operations. Borderwide drug smuggling arrests of U.S. citizens have increased 47 percent this fiscal year. Since March ...
Note: This story has been updated with the deportation being completed Monday night, and with comments from an ICE spokeswoman and Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso. A woman who alleged she was assaulted by two ...
El Pasoans were reminded of the grave risks of cross-border smuggling when seven people died in a car crash on Paisano Drive on June 25 after the driver allegedly fled the Border Patrol during what ...
By Jordyn Rozensky Margo is a survivor. For years, as her mental health was adversely impacted, she survived persecution and torture. For making her best efforts toward survival, the U.S. government charged Margo with a ...
El Paso Matters is exploring the efficiency of the El Paso misdemeanors court system and is asking community members to share their stories. If you have struggled with a long misdemeanor process or paying fines ...
The El Paso County Public Defender’s Office has been roiled in recent weeks by what many in the office saw as an effort to reprimand two attorneys for saying the county wasn’t doing enough to ...
By Veronica Carbajal The El Paso County Courthouse is now the Enrique Moreno County Courthouse. This is absolutely perfect. Enrique loved El Paso and it was in that courthouse that he changed thousands of people’s ...
Three detainees at ICE’s El Paso Processing Center say they were sexually assaulted or harassed by guards, and their attorney is calling for an investigation. “The terrors of detention at our local El Paso ICE ...
In the past several weeks, El Paso’s music and arts scene has experienced a rapid and radical transformation, as large numbers of survivors have spoken out publicly about widespread sexual assault and a culture of ...
UPDATE: Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Wilmur Gomez’s lawyer, Linda Corchado, late Thursday that it has no plans to move him from its El Paso detention facility. An ICE spokeswoman said Friday that Gomez “remains ...
A 59-year-old inmate at the El Paso County Jail has died of COVID-19, Sheriff Richard Wiles told El Paso Matters. It is the first known COVID-19-related death of a person held at any jail or ...
By Kyle Monticone On Aug. 3, 2019, Katherine “Kat” Ramirez was supposed to be sleeping in. Her niece, Savannah Applezoller, age 10 at the time, asked if she would go with her to sell aguas ...
El Paso, like the rest of the United States and much of the world, is deeply imprinted with a legacy of racist ideology. Long before a white supremacist marched into a Walmart to massacre innocent ...
“But what about Hitler?” People often ask this when I tell them I’m totally against the death penalty. For the past year, El Pasoans who oppose capital punishment have been asking, “But what about Patrick ...
El Paso taxpayers have paid at least $1.7 million since 2016 to defend police officers and the city in four lawsuits stemming from the use of deadly force against people in mental health crisis, according ...
By Rosemary M. Marin As our great country grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic and a push for racial justice continues to make headlines, common messages such as “Black and Brown” and “Tu Lucha Es Mi ...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas is seeking videos and other documents related to a June 25 crash that killed seven people in a car fleeing Border Patrol agents. “For too long, the Border ...
Public outcries on racial issues have been on the rise with renewed questions around buildings and landmarks honoring Confederate soldiers. In El Paso, debate has rekindled about a statue honoring Spanish conquistadors. Artist John Houser ...
Murals are popping up across the country to honor Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén, who went missing in April while stationed at Fort Hood. Her dismembered remains were later found in June. Now, El Paso, home ...
Early on the morning of July 8, a woman was found by Border Patrol agents with a severe head injury, just north of the border wall in New Mexico. Scant information is available regarding her ...
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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 ...