Border & Immigration
August 27, 2018
Dozens of Immigrant Parents Remain Separated From Their Children
A month after a federal judge’s deadline more than 500 children remain in federal custody and away from their families.
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Border & Immigration
August 24, 2018
‘Don’t You Understand That We Don’t Want You in This Country?’
A complaint filed with the Department of Homeland Security accuses immigration authorities of trying to coerce immigrants into leaving the country.
Film & TV
August 9, 2018
The Real ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Is a Texan
The film from Spike Lee and Jordan Peele is based on the experiences of El Pasoan Ron Stallworth.
Border & Immigration
August 6, 2018
The Government Reunited Some Immigrant Families—Then Took the Children Away a Second Time
As the government contends with 500 children who remain in government facilities, nightmarish tales are emerging of aborted reunifications.
Border & Immigration
August 4, 2018
Trump Administration May Be Creating ‘Permanently Orphaned’ Immigrant Kids, Judge Says
The judge ordered the administration to begin finding missing parents and to reunite them with their children.
Border & Immigration
July 27, 2018
A Four-Year-Old Reunites With His Mother in a Journey That Is Far From Over
The reunion came on deadline day for a court-ordered reunification of separated immigrant families.
Border & Immigration
July 26, 2018
Separated Parents Coerced Into Waiving Reunification With Their Children, Affidavits Say
Many Spanish-speaking parents said they did not understand the English documents they were signing.
Border & Immigration
July 25, 2018
Hundreds of Immigrant Families Will Remain Separated Even If Government Meets Thursday Deadline
A federal judge praised the government effort, but expressed concern that hundreds of immigrant parents may have been deported without their children.
Border & Immigration
July 16, 2018
Family Reunifications Begin in Earnest in Three Texas Cities
While that's good news, immigration advocates, fearful of mass deportations, have gotten a judge to issue a stay temporarily halting deportations.
Border & Immigration
July 11, 2018
In El Paso, Immigrants Reunited With Their Small Children Tell Their Stories of Detention, Separation, and Release
Among the revelations: Families were separated despite legal entry, and at least one child said he was hit by a caregiver.
Border & Immigration
July 9, 2018
YWCA Executive and Daughter Have Run-in With Customs Agent Over Their Different Surnames
The agent demanded to know why they had different surnames on their passports, then suggested the mother might be a human trafficker.
Border & Immigration
June 29, 2018
An Immigrant Teen Describes Life in Detention After Being Separated From His Mother
’You cannot imagine how awful it is to be there,’ the boy said of his nine-month separation by U.S. immigration officials.
Border & Immigration
June 26, 2018
Texas Companies Turned Down Lucrative No-Bid Contracts to Expand Child Immigrant Camp
The refusal by the two firms to take on a yearlong contract came one day before Trump announced the end of family separation.
Border & Immigration
June 23, 2018
Relatives of Separated Children Are Now in ICE’s Sights
Unprecedented ICE access to ORR data turns safe placement screening into a mechanism for immigration enforcement, officials and activists say.
Border & Immigration
June 20, 2018
El Paso County Sheriff Prohibits Staff From Moonlighting at Tornillo Tent City for Children
The move by Sheriff Richard Wiles marks a growing chorus of local law enforcement across Texas that is critical of the federal family separation policy.
Border & Immigration
June 16, 2018
Inside Texas’s New Tent City for Children
Texas congressman Will Hurd visits a new detention center and rips Trump's family separation policy.
Border & Immigration
June 8, 2018
Immigration Officials Taking Over 1,600 Beds in Federal Prison System
The move comes as immigrant apprehensions climb to levels not seen since the end of the Obama administration.
Border & Immigration
June 7, 2018
Taking Children From Immigrant Parents Is ‘Brutal, Offensive,’ Federal Judge Rules
A ruling allows a woman featured on our site, who was reunited with her son after months of separation, to sue federal government to stop the practice.
Border & Immigration
June 5, 2018
Mother and Son Are Reunited After Months of Separation by Immigration Authorities
They had entered the U.S. illegally, seeking asylum from an abusive home, and were completely unaware they would be separated.
Border & Immigration
June 2, 2018
Border Agents Are Using a New Weapon Against Asylum Seekers
Federal law allows immigrants to step into United States and claim asylum; agents are physically preventing them from doing so.
News & Politics
May 22, 2018
UT–El Paso President Announces Retirement After 30 Years at the Helm
Diana Natalicio is believed to be the longest serving president of a public university in the country.
Politics & Policy
May 10, 2018
El Paso Super PAC Is Shrouded in Mystery
A political action committee that targeted the winner of the primary is run by a hired gun with no apparent political allegiances.
Border & Immigration
May 7, 2018
Homeland Security Promises to Prosecute 100 Percent of Illegal Immigration Cases
The policy shift means that parents will be separated from their children if caught while crossing borders illegally.
Sports
May 3, 2018
Cody Decker Is Still a Chihuahua at Heart
Minor league team rosters are a rotating cast of athletes. But in his two years with the El Paso Chihuahuas, Cody Decker managed to make a lasting impact on the city.
Border & Immigration
April 25, 2018
Sessions Reverses Controversial Decision to Shut Down Immigration Program
The attorney general told a congressional committee he was deferring to its concerns about stopping funding.
Border & Immigration
April 23, 2018
Successful Immigration Program to End April 30
The Legal Orientation Program provides guidance to those facing deportation and is praised for saving taxpayer money.
Film & TV
April 20, 2018
‘Home + Away’ Shows How Sports Help Students Overcome the Realities of the Border
The film captures the lives of three student-athletes in El Paso and the dual nature of the U.S.–Mexico border.
Politics & Policy
April 17, 2018
Speaking Truth to the Powerful
A small-town sheriff took on his president and his governor and learned that facts can get in the way of a good political narrative.
Border & Immigration
April 13, 2018
Is it a Border Wall or a Fence or a Barrier?
As construction begins for Trump’s project near El Paso, debate turns to nomenclature instead of immigration.