Paulina Reza boarded a flight from Ciudad Juárez to El Paso in spring 2020. She flew from Ciudad Juárez to Mexico City, to Los Angeles, to Houston, and finally to El Paso, all so that ...
By Iván Gómez Cruz/La Verdad CIUDAD JUAREZ – Although Lara has not been able to cross the border for her job cleaning houses for 20 months, the 45-year-old woman said she never lost contact with ...
By Lauren Villagran/El Paso Times The United States has reopened the border to vaccinated Mexican tourists. Shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday (midnight in the Eastern time zone), El Paso’s three 24-hour international ports of entry ...
After nearly 20 months of border-travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, officials offered details Friday about Monday’s reopening of ports of entry to “non-essential travel” for vaccinated foreign nationals. Beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday, ...
By Lauren Villagran/El Paso Times Kelly Maing, 46, has spent much of her life working in the Downtown El Paso clothing store started 33 years ago by her parents, who emigrated from South Korea. “See ...
By Lauren Villagran/El Paso Times At midnight on Monday, Nov. 8, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security lifts the restrictions to “non-essential” traffic at the U.S.-Mexico border. That means that Mexican nationals with a valid border crossing card ...
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