el paso matters
Posted Jun 28, 2021, 12:01 pm
Molly Smith & Victoria Rossi/El Paso Matters
Vice President Kamala Harris made it to the U.S.-Mexico border Friday, though her focus remained on what was happening south of the Rio Grande in the Central American countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.... Read more»
Posted May 26, 2021, 9:19 am
Robert Moore
/El Paso Matters
In 2018, the El Paso Border Patrol sector scrapped a “crowd control exercise” that was planned on Election Day, stating the exercise was postponed “due to inaccurate reporting that caused unneeded confusion in border communities,” - yet emails show it was never anything more than a scheme for media attention that drew heavy criticism within the Border Patrol and CBP.... Read more»
Posted Apr 15, 2020, 3:22 pm
Angela Kocherga
/El Paso Matters
Chihuahua State health authorities confirmed 11 of the 16 confirmed COVID-19 deaths in Ciudad Juárez are maquiladora factory workers.... Read more»
Posted Mar 10, 2020, 2:30 pm
Robert Moore
/El Paso Matters
An asylum seeker from Nepal who has been force-fed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso for more than three months could be released from custody this week, his attorneys said. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 4, 2020, 4:33 pm
Robert Moore
/El Paso Matters
A 23-year-old asylum seeker from Nepal has not eaten voluntarily in more than 100 days and has been force-fed for most of the last three months, the latest and longest in a series of hunger strikes at the ICE detention facility in El Paso.... Read more»