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.
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.
Whether I lived in Chicago, Germany, or Dallas, I came to recognize one thing: it’s impossible to leave the borderlands behind.
The ”Migrant Protection Protocols” will send asylum seekers to Mexico to wait while their cases are processed.
With just three weeks until his new album, ’Free Spirit,’ the singer from the city of the 915 played the songs that made him a star one last time.
The protesters' key issue with Wilson was her congressional voting record on LGBT issues.
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.
El Paso’s favorite adopted son teams up with British superproducers Disclosure to preview his April album release.
Immigration advocates worry that the policy, which is in effect in California, sends migrants fleeing danger towards more violence.
Our state is accustomed to deference from Republican administrations—deference it has earned. Why are our Republican leaders letting him create our narrative?
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
Over the years, Texas Monthly’s most celebrated voices have written about the places that shaped them, from the Panhandle to the border. We revisit some of the classics.
Immigration authorities dropped busloads of immigrants at a Greyhound bus station without giving warning to local officials, despite having promised to do so.
In his first town hall since narrowly losing his election, O'Rourke shows he may not be ready to leave public arena.
The El Pasoan who would be senator isn’t done yet.
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.
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.
Told through vignettes, 'Retablos,' a memoir by playwright Octavio Solis, depicts the myths and realities of a childhood along the border.
Irving Castillo hadn't seen his family in fifteen years. At the 'Hugs Not Walls' event, they were able to reunite—for 180 seconds.
This city in West Texas was the largest in the country without a presence from the controversial health clinic.
A month after a federal judge’s deadline more than 500 children remain in federal custody and away from their families.
The reunion came on deadline day for a court-ordered reunification of separated immigrant families.
Among the revelations: Families were separated despite legal entry, and at least one child said he was hit by a caregiver.
’You cannot imagine how awful it is to be there,’ the boy said of his nine-month separation by U.S. immigration officials.
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.
Last weekend, border agents turned away legal asylum-seekers on the U.S.-Mexico border. In a ‘Texas Monthly Reporter’ podcast, reporter Robert Moore discusses this tactic and its effect on those being turned away.
Federal law allows immigrants to step into United States and claim asylum; agents are physically preventing them from doing so.
By telling his own story, the widely admired Dallas Morning News reporter reveals how Mexican Americans have changed the United States—and how the United States has changed Mexican Americans.
Diana Natalicio is believed to be the longest serving president of a public university in the country.
A political action committee that targeted the winner of the primary is run by a hired gun with no apparent political allegiances.
Soul man: El Paso's Tomasso Arditti has crafted custom, high-end boots for many famous feet.
As construction begins for Trump’s project near El Paso, debate turns to nomenclature instead of immigration.
An El Paso man thinks he's got a good candidate for Texas History Month. Is he right? Yes, but . . .
Every room has a spectacular view in this ultramodern house that makes the most of its surroundings.
Donald Trump has profoundly discouraged people from coming over our borders. But is his influence wearing off?
When Alberto Mendiola returned to El Paso from the war in Afghanistan, he was suffering from severe, untreated PTSD. But is that a viable defense for murder?
A music revitalization is in progress in El Paso.
For an affordable stay in a new city, with built-in friends.
Animator Don Bluth returns to his birthplace of El Paso.
David Bond of Lucky B Design journeys across the state, painting soon-to-be iconic signs all along the way.
In our westernmost city, cultural boundaries are as fluid as the Rio Grande.
