The United States will lift pandemic travel restrictions at border crossings with Mexico next month, reopening the border to fully vaccinated individuals and ending a virtual shutdown that separated families and hurt businesses that relied ...
By Gabriela Minjares and Blanca Carmona / La Verdad First of a four-part series En español: Lea el informe de La Verdad sobre la violencia contra migrantes en México CIUDAD JUAREZ – A couple who ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ – The figures in pale camouflage uniforms are visible in key spots along this border, from the fence jutting high above the desert in Anapra to the muddy banks of the shallow Rio ...
By Maria Ramos Pacheco and René Kladzyk/El Paso Matters and Veronica Martinez/La Verdad Last of a three-part series Lea esta historia en español When Melinda and her family arrived at the shelter El Buen Samaritano in November, a simple task ...
By René Kladzyk and Maria Ramos Pacheco/El Paso Matters and Veronica Martinez/La Verdad First of a three-part series Lea esta historia en español Running children and crying babies create a cacophony at El Buen Samaritano shelter, but in a far corner, Carmela ...
With immigration omnipresent in international news headlines and El Paso-Juarez’s position as the literal stage on which policy debates take place, we thought it’d be a good time to provide a refresher on the vocabulary ...
Twinkling holiday lights cast a warm glow and Christmas carols blare from speakers at the Outlet Shoppes of El Paso. But in these pandemic times, something is missing from the traditional holiday scene on the ...
It’s been more than six months since the U.S.-Mexico border closed to all but essential travel to slow the spread of COVID-19. The disruption of lives and livelihoods has been widespread in El Paso and ...
U.S.-Mexico border travel restrictions have not only affected lawful cross-border activity, but also illicit border crossings, including smuggling operations. Borderwide drug smuggling arrests of U.S. citizens have increased 47 percent this fiscal year. Since March ...
FORT HANCOCK, Texas — Rural schools along the U.S.-Mexico border face challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic that are common to small, isolated districts across the United States — broadband access and other digital divide issues, ...
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