Monica Ortiz Uribe
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National
El Paso tries to house many migrants in freezing weather – but some don't qualify
El Paso has scrambled to move migrants off the streets and into shelters as temperatures plummet below freezing, but federal law dictates which migrants can stay inside city facilities.
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National
Activists Decry Femicides After Another Woman Is Killed In Juárez, Mexico
Activists chanted "Not one more" as they marched in Juárez Saturday. The killing of artist and activist Isabel Cabanillas ignited anger in a city with a gruesome history of violence against women.
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National
El Paso's Resilience Shines Through After What Police Call A Hate-Driven Shooting
Authorities are treating a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, this weekend as domestic terrorism. Twenty people were killed in a shooting spree in the city, which is a hub for Hispanic migrants.
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National
Trump Administration's 'Remain In Mexico' Program Tangles Legal Process
Immigrant advocates say the policy, known as Migrant Protection Protocols, is not protecting migrants. Its difficult for lawyers to reach clients, and puts migrants in danger.
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National
Migrant Protection Protocols May Not Deliver Promised Aid To Asylum-Seekers
A federal appeals court ruled this week that a Trump administration program that returns some asylum-seekers to Mexico to wait out cases can continue for now. Advocates are concerned for migrants.
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National
Main Migrant Shelter In El Paso Opens New Building For Families Released by ICE
Annunciation House, the main shelter for migrants in El Paso, is opening a new building to house families after they're released by ICE.
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National
Border Residents Remain Skeptical About The Need For An Expanded Wall
Residents along the southern border with Mexico are not convinced an expanded and strengthened border wall will have much of an impact on their own safety, and on border security.
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Politics
Texas Volunteers Start Pop-Up Medical Clinics To Help Screen Migrant Children
In response to the deaths of two Guatemalan children in U.S. custody, the Department of Homeland Security has ordered more stringent medical screenings of minors detained at the border.
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National
ICE Continues To Release Asylum-Seekers At Public Park In El Paso, Texas
Officials appear to have resumed coordinating with local shelters after days of dropping off hundreds of mostly Central American migrants without any plan.
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National
On Christmas Day, Volunteers In El Paso, Texas, Help Hundreds Of Immigrant Families
A migrant shelter in El Paso, Texas, says ICE officers delivered several hundred migrants to a bus station without warning. Normally shelter workers are given a heads up. ICE says it was an oversight.