Esperanza Para Todos on the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez needs more beds. It needs portable toilets and showers, too. Like many of the shelters in Ciudad Juárez, Esperanza Para Todos is straining to keep up ...
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 ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ – The final days at Casa de Colores were hectic as the last residents living in the old hotel turned migrant shelter prepared to leave. “It’s a bittersweet feeling,” said Fernanda Levin, a ...
A new exception to a Trump-era border policy has allowed some transgender people and other members of “vulnerable populations” to enter the United States and seek asylum, the Department of Homeland Security and migrant advocacy ...
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 ...
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