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El Paso is the U.S.-Mexico border in miniature: Once a permeable landscape, the Texas city is now separated from its sister to the south—Ciudad Juárez—by a harsh apparatus of walls and wire.
In his declaration, Abbott cited the Mexico–United States border crisis and the need to secure the border. The Texas National Guard blocked U.S. Border Patrol agents from patrolling the area, which the Border Patrol had been using to hold migrants in recent weeks. [71] [72] After the closure, three migrants were found drowned in the Rio Grande.
Saturday, January 13: Mexico’s National Institute of Migration told the Border Patrol’s Del Rio Sector seven migrants – in two groups – had tried to cross the Rio Grande the night before ...
The day before Thanksgiving, a Border Patrol agent attempted to stop a driver in the far west Texas border county of Presidio. As the agent approached the passenger side of the vehicle, the driver ...
Hope Border Institute is one of a number of organisations operating in El Paso which has been involved in recent events at the US-Mexican border concerning United States immigration policy. Its founding was a direct result of Pope Francis 's direction that the Catholic Church should dedicate greater resources to supporting migrants in the ...
The Texas Border Coalition (TBC) is a group of elected officials and business leaders located along the border of Mexico and the U.S. state of Texas who make policy recommendations to help the Texas-Mexico border region grow and prosper economically. TBC is non-partisan and seeks to help Texas border communities speak with one voice on areas of ...
Texas is building a military base camp in the city of Eagle Pass near the U.S.-Mexico border, part of a broader effort by the state's Republican Governor Greg Abbott to deter illegal immigration.
Operation Gatekeeper was a 1994 federal government crackdown on unauthorized border crossing by migrants. Morones has said the program, which fortified border fences and established militarized areas along some sections of the U.S.-Mexico border, is responsible for hundreds of deaths of migrants who tried to enter the United States through difficult terrain, often perishing in extreme weather ...