601 Views EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Mark Seitz of El Paso is the first bishop from a state along the Mexico border to head the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ migration committee in at least 20 years. With a migrant shelter literally in his backyard and his diocese smack
574 Views HEBRON, Ky. (AP) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday he intends to visit the U.S.-Mexico border — his first since taking office — in connection with his meeting next week in Mexico City with the leaders of Mexico and Canada.
633 Views Last week several rabbis from the Jewish organizations T’ruah and HIAS travelled to El Paso to witness firsthand the immigration crisis at the border. Scott Brocato spoke with four of the rabbis about their experiences there and what they witnessed.
667 Views Title 42 allows our government to prevent certain people from making a claim for asylum during public health emergencies. Changes are coming to the way our federal government handles asylum seekers. The federal government plans to end the use of Title 42 to expel migrants on Dec. 21.
593 Views TORRANCE COUNTY, N.M. – For months now we’ve heard report after report of mistreatment inside the Torrance County Detention Facility, a privately-run center. Now, attorneys say a second migrant detainee attempted to take his own life late last month to escape the conditions inside.
563 Views “As we started interviewing people, we immediately discovered that they did not speak English,” Decker said. There’s been an increase in migrants coming across our southern border over the last few months, and many of those migrants are ending up in Albuquerque.
594 Views ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – One anonymous tip to law enforcement about a stash house in southeast Albuquerque recently saved dozens of lives. Investigators found 69 immigrants in a trailer, and at least one man, Rolando Joaquin-Miguel, is facing federal charges in connection to it.
618 Views For the second time this year, migrants detained in New Mexico have reportedly staged a hunger strike to protest allegedly inhumane conditions inside privately-run detention facilities.
643 Views SANTA TERESA, N.M. – The Santa Teresa Port of Entry is a bustling trade zone. Recent data shows nearly 12,000 commercial crossings from Mexico each month, and that’s only a fraction of the traffic nearby ports in El Paso saw at the same time.
573 Views Officials say at least nine migrants died when dozens attempted a hazardous crossing of the Rio Grande river near Eagle Pass, Texas. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement Saturday that it responded Thursday to a report of a large number if people crossing the Mexican border.
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