Weighing Just 107 Pounds and at Risk of Death, an Asylum Seeker on Hunger Strike Finally Gets His Freedom
After 76 days on hunger strike and almost a year in detention, Ajay Kumar has been released from ICE custody in El Paso.
After 76 days on hunger strike and almost a year in detention, Ajay Kumar has been released from ICE custody in El Paso.
Veronica Escobar, the first Latina to represent El Paso in Congress, isn’t afraid of playing the Washington game—as long as it means the Texas borderlands get the respect they deserve.
At a hearing on Friday, the El Paso doctor said force-feeding was considered medically unethical, but that ICE's rules required her to do it.
Days after he was supposed to be in a children’s shelter, Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez died of the flu near the toilet in his Border Patrol holding cell.
Four Indian men have refused to eat since July 8 in hopes of being released on bonds while awaiting deportation hearings.
Immigration officials have resumed the much-criticized practice of keeping people outdoors for weeks to relieve dangerous overcrowding.
Juan is believed to be the first parent separated from a child under Trump’s zero-tolerance policy to win permanent protection against deportation.
Diana Natalicio has collected a few hundred UTEP tops over the decades—and has something to say about each of them.
At hearings in El Paso, asylum seekers forced to stay in Juarez told of violence and fear.
In their first interview with the press, the two Indian nationals say the force-feeding process was dehumanizing and painful.
The overnight move comes as ACLU files complaints alleging human rights violations.
The Tigua and Alabama-Coushatta tribes may soon be forced to shutter their gaming operations after courts again rule them illegal.
Commissioner describes a humanitarian and national security crisis while in El Paso.
“It’s really out of control. It’s bad,” said one official of the surge in families streaming across the border.
The ”Migrant Protection Protocols” will send asylum seekers to Mexico to wait while their cases are processed.
In an interview with Texas Monthly, O’Rourke says he’ll offer “bold leadership”—but offered few specifics.
The protesters' key issue with Wilson was her congressional voting record on LGBT issues.
"The Border Patrol has no reason to expect that this trend will decrease; in fact we believe it will increase," said Border Patrol chief of operations.
Trump administration officials on Friday said they will continue to push forward with a controversial policy to require at least some Central American asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims are heard, but acknowledged they are moving slowly with the process. Officials said El Paso is likely to
The meeting comes as unprecedented numbers of Central American families are seeking asylum.
A federal judge is the latest to rule the tribe's popular casino violates state gaming laws.
In an extraordinary hearing that involved public and private testimony, a federal judge expressed legal support for the practice of force-feeding.
The president also seemed focused on a nearby counter-protest featuring Beto O’Rourke.
In a political rally scheduled for Monday, Trump is expected to once again push for a border wall.
Immigration advocates worry that the policy, which is in effect in California, sends migrants fleeing danger towards more violence.
The city's congresswoman says that Trump lied about the west Texas city during his state of the union speech.
Eleven asylum seekers detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement El Paso field office have gone on hunger strikes to protest their lengthy detention and what they view as inhumane treatment. Several who have been on a hunger strike for more than a month are being force-fed by ICE. The
An inspector general’s report concludes border agents continue family separations without adequate justification.
The inspector general is expected to release a report as soon as Thursday on how well the Office of Refugee Resettlement is doing its job.
Even as the Tornillo tent city shuts down, the Trump administration’s policies will call for more centers like it.
A detention camp that became the symbol of perhaps the largest mass incarceration of children not charged with a crime since the WWII internment of Japanese Americans will soon become history.
Immigration authorities dropped busloads of immigrants at a Greyhound bus station without giving warning to local officials, despite having promised to do so.
As the congressman from El Paso and former U.S. Senate candidate departs the House, he expresses regret and pride about his effort at teaching America about the border.
Federal officials have reversed course and announced they will no longer require fingerprints of potential sponsors for detained children.
Beto O'Rourke said contractor is asking the Trump Administration to stop sharing information of potential sponsors with immigration agents.
Texas members of Congress are expressing concern about President Trump's stated willingness to partially shut down government to get funding for his wall.
Key Congressional Democrats vow to fight $190 million Trump administration request to run Tornillo.
Both members promise increases oversight of facilities for migrant children when Democrats take control of the House in January.
The private company that has been contracted by the Trump administration is nearing the end of a contract to run the facility.
In his first town hall since narrowly losing his election, O'Rourke shows he may not be ready to leave public arena.
Governor Greg Abbott signed a law that gets rid of straight-ticket balloting and this was its last election.
The plans come on the same day that the Trump administration claims power to deny asylum to those entering U.S. illegally.
The civil rights group filed a complaint one day after the Border Patrol postponed an Election Day "crowd control" exercise.
While O'Rourke lost the race, there was a lot of love in the El Paso stadium.
The decision to postpone the exercise in El Paso, the home of U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke, comes amid widespread criticism by members of Congress and civil rights groups.
In addition to deployment of Army troops, border nonprofits are seeing the beginnings of mass family releases.
Border agents are seeking more help from nonprofits as growing numbers of families are being arrested.
This city in West Texas was the largest in the country without a presence from the controversial health clinic.
Austin filmmaker Steve Mims shows why (in some decidedly non-political ways) Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke aren't so different after all.
The facility near El Paso will more than double its capacity for unaccompanied minors, expanding to 3,800 beds.