A large family from Michoacan, Mexico walked across the Paso del Norte international bridge into Downtown El Paso on the morning of Sept. 1, clutching papers with proof of negative COVID-19 tests and guided by ...
Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and the ACLU of New Mexico on Thursday demanded that U.S. Customs and Border Protection investigate an Aug. 3 crash, when a migrant smuggler lost control ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced the agenda Wednesday for a special legislative session that includes measures concerning border security, transgender children in sports, critical race theory, medication abortion and more. Set to begin at 10:00 ...
It took a 19-hour road trip earlier this week for Maria Aldama to cover the distance between Kansas City to El Paso. And for that, she was rewarded with a three-minute embrace with a mother ...
When schools in McAllen moved online last spring, it became harder for Tiffany Torres-Gonzalez to attend class, even though her bedroom was now her classroom. She didn’t have internet at home and a district-issued mobile ...
By Sara Sanchez/El Paso Inc. Here on the U.S.-Mexico border, El Paso’s informal economy, made up of workers who cross to the United States every day to do everything from cut lawns to work in ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ — This border city is struggling to shelter the growing number of migrants who are expelled from the United States through the Paso del Norte Bridge daily, many who arrived on flights from ...
A year after the U.S. border was closed to all non-essential travel, the pandemic has underscored an informal economy that many fronterizos prefer not to talk about even as they struggle to adapt to a ...
When Mexico’s president traveled to the White House last summer, U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar urged President Donald Trump to put discussion of a binational coronavirus response plan at the top of the agenda. But that ...
By Lauren Villagran/El Paso Times Ricardo Samaniego keeps a cartoon on his desk of four people in a sinking boat. Two are frantically scooping out buckets of water on one side, while the other two kick ...
On March 13, 2020, the first confirmed COVID-19 case in El Paso was reported. Two days later, the first case was found in Ciudad Juárez. On March 21, 2020, the United States and Mexico agreed ...
El Paso and other border cities will begin receiving migrants from the Rio Grande Valley on Monday for processing, Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, said. “What we are seeing is families continue to arrive at ...
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 ...
As the Biden administration announced that the United States would begin to allow asylum seekers enrolled in Migrant Protection Protocols to cross the border, a rare sight spread across a migrant shelter in Juárez: Smiles ...
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 ...
Whenever Maria Garcia arrives in El Paso after being away for a while, she notices the change in her body immediately. Her neck and shoulders “make peace with each other” when she inhales the desert ...
The holidays during the pandemic are filled with anxiety and heartache that extends to both sides of the border. In Juárez, the Castillo family is in mourning confronting the first Christmas without their patriarch. “He ...
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar was elected to a second term in Congress last week with 64% of the vote. Her win wasn’t a surprise — Democrats have controlled Texas’ 16th Congressional District seat since 1965. ...
TORNILLO, Texas — Damaris Duran models how to solve an algebraic equation, drawing directly on a large screen at the front of her classroom. She adjusts her microphone headset as she walks her eighth-grade students ...
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 ...
Smuggling attempts at the U.S.-Mexico border during the COVID-19 pandemic include more than drugs. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at international bridges are also finding a popular contraband comfort food stashed in vehicles — ...
As testing increases in El Paso, contact tracing is the next critical step to prevent the spread of COVID-19. On the border, those close contacts can include relatives, friends and coworkers in two countries. “This ...
This story is a collaboration between La Verdad Juárez and El Paso Matters. It is reported by Angela Kocherga for El Paso Matters and Martín Orquiz for La Verdad. CIUDAD JUAREZ — Chihuahua State Police ...
Border manufacturers are teaming up in an unusual race to provide life-saving medical supplies and devices during the COVID-19 crisis. The timing couldn’t be more critical. “Our message is simple,” said Cecilia Levine, founder of ...
In the winter of 1917, fear of a typhus outbreak prompted a quarantine policy along the United States-Mexico border. For over 40 years, this United States border quarantine mandated the forcible bathing of Mexican border-crossers ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ – Pharmacies in Juárez are facing a run by El Pasoans and other U.S. residents looking to buy hydroxychloroquine, one of the drugs the president has touted as a possible treatment for COVID-19. ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ — Health authorities in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez pride themselves on working together as a region on a range of public health issues that span the border. But the response to the ...
The Trejo family has been careful about handwashing and using hand-sanitizer to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but when it came time to part ways near the Paso del Norte international bridge, they hugged ...
The number of people crossing from Ciudad Juárez into El Paso declined sharply in the past year as wait times increased at international bridges, according to Customs and Border Protection data. The number of people ...
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By Joaquin Moreno Recent events regarding the COVID-19 pandemic have shed light on major issues regarding disease and how it disproportionately affects specific demographics of the American population. Health inequity and the lack of access ...