El Paso, Elsewhere is the edgy Superhot I never knew I needed El Paso, Elsewhere is an edgy, bloody, and unexpected spiritual successor to Superhot in all the right ways. TechRadar · Jun 30, 2023
Woman who 'shot Uber driver she mistook as kidnapper' charged with murder Authorities say Phoebe Copas from Kentucky was taking an Uber when she saw a road sign in El Paso, Texas, reading 'Juarez, Mexico', a notorious cartel hotspot just across the border. Fearing her driver was kidnapping her she pulled out a gun and shot him in the head Daily Mirror · Jun 26, 2023
‘State-sanctioned kidnapping’: Texas sheriff aids probe into new DeSantis migrant flights The Texas sheriff who last week recommended criminal charges for those behind Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ so-called migrant relocation program is collaborating with California authorities who announced a similar criminal investigation following recent flights that brought migrants from El Paso to Sacramento. McClatchy Washington Bureau · Jun 15, 2023
Texas to install '1,000ft floating wall' to stop migrants The Rio Grande was the scene of a big incursion in 2022 when 1,700 migrants cross into El Paso in just one weekend Wales Online · Jun 9, 2023
DeSantis recruiters eyed Catholic church for migrant flights that bishop calls ‘reprehensible’ Mark Seitz, the Roman Catholic bishop of El Paso, Texas, tells The Associated Press that Florida Gov_ Ron DeSantis' flights of migrants from the Texas border to California are “reprehensible” and “not morally acceptable.” The Independent UK · Jun 8, 2023
Title 42 didn't result in a surge of migration, after all – but border communities are still facing record-breaking migration U.S. government officials and media alike made widespread predictions that there would be a surge of migration across the U.S.-Mexico border in May 2023. The Conversation · Jun 8, 2023
Charges over DeSantis' migrant stunt "State-sanctioned kidnapping is not a public policy choice, it is immoral and disgusting," Calif. AG Rob Bonta says Salon · Jun 6, 2023
Sheriff files criminal charges over Florida’s transport of migrants from San Antonio to Massachusetts The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office didn’t say who it has accused of unlawful restraint in connection with last year’s flight to Martha’s Vineyard paid for by Florida. On Monday, California announced it’s investigating similar flights from El Paso to Sacramento. The Texas Tribune · Jun 5, 2023
Without access to water lines, Texas colonias residents are pulling water from the desert air Thousands of low-income, Latino residents in Texas still do not have safe drinking water. In one El Paso colonia, some residents are using solar distillation to generate water from the air. The Texas Tribune · Jun 5, 2023
‘In the hands of God’: One Venezuelan family's journey to the US When Luis López was lost in Panama's Darien Gap last year with his pregnant wife, their two children and her grandmother, he often knelt in the mud to beg God not to abandon them The Independent UK · May 14, 2023
Calm prevails at US-Mexico border after Title 42 migration restrictions lifted Situation at the border stands in contrast to Republican fear-mongering as Biden officials establish strict new policies The Guardian - US · May 13, 2023
Title 42 migration restrictions have ended, but Biden’s new policy is tougher President pledged as a candidate to dismantle Trump’s hardline immigration agenda but new rules are more restrictive The Guardian - US · May 13, 2023
Chaos on Mexico border averted, for now, as US turns page in migration rules The U.S. has turned the page on pandemic-era immigration restrictions with relative calm at its border with Mexico as migrants adapt to strict new rules aimed at discouraging illegal crossings and await the promise of new legal pathways into the country The Independent UK · May 13, 2023
WEKU · May 12, 2023 Fear and confusion, but not chaos, along the southern border after Title 42 ends The pandemic-era policy nearly halted the processing of asylum applications. As Title 42 was lifted on Thursday, officials braced for an influx of migrants. But the reality was relatively calm.
The Texas Tribune · May 12, 2023 Border didn’t see a “major influx” of migrants when Title 42 ended, federal official says Although migrants lined up by the hundreds in El Paso and other border crossings as the public health order was winding down, a Biden administration official said there wasn’t a rush to the border when Title 42 was lifted.
The Independent UK · May 12, 2023 Amid confusion along US-Mexico border, El Paso pastors provide migrants with shelter and counsel As confusion pervades El Paso, one of the busiest illegal crossings points for migrants fleeing poverty and strife, faith leaders strive to provide shelter, legal advice and prayer
The Texas Tribune · May 12, 2023 Title 42 ends with migrants lined up and border cities braced for the unknown Long lines formed again next to the border wall in El Paso — a scene repeated in other parts of the southern border — as migrants anticipated the end of a policy that has allowed immigration agents to quickly expel them.
Al Jazeera · May 11, 2023 Title 42 is about to expire in US. Here’s what you need to know Expiry of contentious US policy will bring little relief to asylum seekers facing many other border curbs, experts say.
WEKU · May 11, 2023 Title 42, a COVID-era halt on asylum applications, has ended. Here's what to expect The pandemic restrictions allowed for the quick expulsion of migrants at the border. Now that it's been lifted, some officials are expecting a record influx and an impending humanitarian crisis.
The Texas Tribune · May 9, 2023 Migrants waiting to cross the border say government’s app for asylum-seekers is a mess Hundreds of migrants have waited on the U.S. bank of the Rio Grande for days to be apprehended. Others say they want to follow the rules to enter legally — if they could just get the government phone app to work.
Reuters · May 9, 2023 Migrants amass along US-Mexico border as COVID-era restrictions near end U.S. border agents in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday urged hundreds of migrants amassing on city streets to surrender to authorities as illegal crossings rose in the run-up to the end of COVID-19 border restrictions known as Title 42 later this week.
The Texas Tribune · May 8, 2023 Gov. Greg Abbott focuses on border security in first address since Allen and Brownsville tragedies Abbott announced the deployment of new “Texas Tactical Border Force” units to El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley on Monday and Tuesday.
The Independent UK · May 8, 2023 'Risk it all': Migrant surge as US prepares for Title 42 end A recent surge of migrants in the Brownsville, Texas, area of the U.S.-Mexico border is highlighting immigration challenges as the U.S. prepares for the end of a policy linked to the coronavirus pandemic that allowed it to quickly expel many migrants
The Texas Tribune · May 6, 2023 Progressive causes lose big in San Antonio and El Paso charter elections San Antonio voters rejected by wide margins an effort to decriminalize abortion and require police to issue citations rather than make arrests for some nonviolent offenses. In El Paso, an effort to wean the city from fossil fuels fared similarly poorly.