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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
An El Paso sector Border Patrol agent ran over a 29-year-old Mexican man while pursuing him with a vehicle on July 1, according to Border Patrol spokesperson George Gomez. A statement from the Border Patrol ...
This story has been updated with official identifications of six of the seven killed and two of the three injured. Two eyewitness accounts of the deadly car crash in Downtown El Paso conflict with what ...
Four U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees in the El Paso area have tested positive for COVID-19, the agency says in data recently made public. CBP had said previously it would not make public the ...
Government watchdogs failed to conduct thorough investigations into the deaths of two migrant children in the El Paso area in 2018 and gave a false cause of death in its public report on one of ...
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