Viewed from above, the two sites housing foreign nationals on Fort Bliss look similar. They’re both a maze of white tents plopped onto a dusty desert terrain, with tiny specks of humans bustling in between. ...
When Bishop Mark Seitz visited the Fort Bliss tent facility for unaccompanied migrant children Sunday, he was only able to conduct one mass instead of the scheduled two because of record-setting rain that has drenched ...
The amount of oversight and accountability at an immigration detention facility housing thousands of children is “absolutely unacceptable,” U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, said after two visits to the site. The “megasite” emergency influx ...
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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