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Developing: More than 1,000 migrants have begun crossing from Juarez into El Paso, one of the largest mass crossings ever. Video from
@CorrieBoudreaux
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“Gov. Abbott has taken 10,000 men and women away from their homes, their families, and their jobs for a mission that lacks any clear purpose. And it’s taking a terrible toll on them,”
@BetoORourke
writes.
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The West Texas CBP Twitter account is being deactivated after sharing or liking a series of political and homophobic tweets Saturday, including a crude remark about Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, officials said.
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El Paso has fared far better than the rest of Texas in the current pandemic wave. That's because of high vaccination rates, a devastating outbreak last year and a strong sense of community spirit, our partners with
@TexasTribune
report.
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In a commentary, El Paso's
@BetoORourke
says "political theatrics around immigration have left border communities to deal with entirely insufficient, politically charged responses to the border by state and federal leaders alike."
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BREAKING: An El Paso judge said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton “ran roughshod” over Annunciation House and said his records request may have been a “predetermined” effort to close one of the border’s largest providers of migrant services.
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UPDATE: University Medical Center, which has El Paso's only Level 1 trauma center, confirms receiving 2 shooting victims from Cielo Vista Mall.
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On Election Day 2018, public backlash forced the El Paso Border Patrol to scrap plans for a “crowd control exercise” near a Hispanic neighborhood. Newly released emails show the event essentially was a media stunt that drew heavy criticism within
@CBP
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El Paso native
@nachoaguilar
will lead a growing
@elpasomatters
newsroom team as we move into our second year of telling important stories about our community.
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BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone grants temporary restraining order against Texas and
@GovAbbott
, blocking an executive order that attempted to stop transportation of migrants released at the border. Story coming from
@ziembavision
.
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With hundreds of migrants being released into Downtown El Paso, organizations are asking for volunteers and donations, such as clothes and shoes. Here’s how to help.
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The hate-driven murders in El Paso two years ago are part of broader efforts to entrench white supremacy,
@BetoORourke
writes. He offers ideas on fighting back.
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The city of El Paso's international bridge director said increased DPS inspections on commercial trucks has little impact on migration, and instead deals a "severe blow" to cross-border trade.
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BREAKING NEWS: In a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that El Paso’s Tigua Indians can legally operate some forms of gambling on their tribal land. It’s a major victory for the tribe in a 3-decade fight with the state of Texas.
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“The message from this election cannot be that El Paso is uninterested in meeting the single greatest long-term challenge to our future,”
@betoorourke
says in endorsing El Paso’s Proposition K, the Climate Charter.
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For a decade, El Pasoans have been fighting to protect culturally historic and environmentally sensitive land in Northeast El Paso’s Franklin Mountains. Today, that fight will result in the creation of Castner Range National Monument.
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.
@GovAbbott
has called on Texas agencies to investigate those who provide gender-affirming care to transgender youths for child abuse.
But the El Paso County attorney says her office will not follow the directive.
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El Paso’s food bank announced Tuesday a two-week closure on its West Side site, due to the departure of remaining 30 Texas National Guard members, said to be redeployed for
@GovAbbott
's border enforcement efforts.
@ProkopDani
reports.
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Starting next week,
@SanElizarioISD
becomes the first school district in the El Paso region to switch to a four-day class schedule.
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In the 2018 midterms, voter turnout among El Paso 18- to 24-year-olds jumped by 459% from 2014 – an increase of about 14,500 voters. That number will only grow this election,
@BetoORourke
said after wrapping up his college tour at
@UTEP
.
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The migrants are from a caravan that was stopped in Chihuahua, then allowed to move forward. Here's an earlier story from our partners at
@LaVerdadJz
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“Do I want billionaires in Michigan and California or elite think tanks in Austin making decisions about how my child’s education is funded?”
@DrDeMatt
writes.
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New: Off-duty police officer in the food court shot and injured the gunman, a source familiar with the scene says.
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A movie based on the novel, “Aristotle and Dante” by
@BenjaminASaenz
will premiere at
@TIFF_NET
this fall. Adapted by
@aitchalberto
& produced by
@Lin_Manuel
, the
#arianddantemovie
tells the coming-of-age story of two Mexican American gay teens in El Paso.
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Veteran El Paso journalists
@angelakborder
and
@ajcorchado
are among 4 people elected to the
@nahj
Hall of Fame.
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We're happy to report that we received our determination letter today from
@IRSnews
and El Paso Matters is officially a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
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Police Sgt Robert Gomez said shooting reports came in at 5:10. 4 persons shot; 1 killed, 3 transported to local hospitals. Police believe scene is secure.
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Five
@SocorroISD
middle schools are being recognized for achieving the highest middle school algebra 1 test scores in El Paso County.
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We’ve updated our list of migrant aid organizations in El Paso where you can volunteer or make donations. Migrants are already filling shelters and with Title 42 set to end on May 11, community leaders are relying on goodwill.
@priscillatotiya
reports:
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Annunciation House, an El Paso Catholic nonprofit that has been a national leader in providing humanitarian care to migrants, is engaged in “human smuggling,” and should be shut down, according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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Immigration judge grants asylum to Mexican journalist and his son after a 15-year ordeal filled with denials, detentions and delays, but also with the support of U.S. journalism organizations.
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We're deeply honored that El Paso Matters has been named a finalist for General Excellence in Online Journalism at this year's
@ONA
awards!
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1/ Today is the second anniversary of the El Paso Walmart shooting, when 23 people were killed and dozens injured in what was the worst attack on Latinos in recent U.S. history. 🧵
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El Paso has never had a reporter focused exclusively on issues affecting women in our community. Until now. Welcome to our border community,
@victoriaerossi
, a
@Report4America
corps member.
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“I expressed to the Holy Father that I felt it was imperative to show our solidarity to those who are suffering,”
@BishopSeitz
says of his conversation Wednesday with
@Pontifex
. Pope Francis recognized him for speaking out against racial prejudice.
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Breaking: Amid heightened legal restrictions under
#SB8
, El Paso Planned Parenthood has resumed abortion services. El Paso has gone without an abortion provider for nearly two years, since the start of the pandemic.
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Emergency alert just sent saying family reception center established at Burges High gym. This is fairly standard way for people to find their loved ones. Our reporters have seen buses at Cielo Vista Mall, which likely will be used to take people from the mall to Burges.
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.
@SanElizarioISD
's venture into a four-day school week is paying off with less absences, lower fuel and electricity bills, administrators say.
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.
@BobMooreNews
is among four people who will be inducted into the Texas Newspaper Foundation Hall of Fame. A longtime editor of
@elpasotimes
and founder of
@elpasomatters
, Moore is the first El Pasoan selected for induction.
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Our
@CindyRamz1
is at Cielo Vista Mall, where there's a massive police response to reports of a shooting in the food court. Here's the scene. Little information so far, but obviously lots of anxiety, especially because of proximity to the 2019 Walmart mass shooting.
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Some news:
@AngelaKBorder
is joining
@elpasomatters
as multimedia editor. Angela is one of the best border reporters in the country and a rare journalist adept at print, digital, audio and video.
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“A movie is never a literal translation of the book; it’s not supposed to be,” says
@BenjaminASaenz
about the
#arianddantemovie
in theaters this week.
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We're thrilled to announce that journalists
@Elida_S_Perez
,
@ziembavision
and
@tristan_claudia
are joining our team.
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Documents obtained by El Paso Matters show a UTEP administrator who retired from the Border Patrol moved to create a position for a former colleague facing sexual harassment allegations so it would be “less risky” for other universities to hire him.
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University Medical Center says 2 shooting victims from Cielo Vista Mall in critical condition.
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Claudia Yoli has devoted her life to promoting political participation, even though as a Dreamer she’s barred from voting.
Yoli is now the new executive director of
@MOVE_texas
— the largest youth voter mobilization organization in the state.
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A Border Patrol official acknowledged the exercise likely wouldn’t affect any migrants coming to the U.S., “but it sure will rile up the local advocacy groups.” 5/
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1/ We’re celebrating our one year anniversary! 🎉
El Paso Matters launched in Feb. 2020 to bring in-depth reporting to El Paso and the borderland region. We need your support to keep on doing what we do:
Here are some of our most impactful stories:
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Hundreds of mail-in ballots for El Paso’s runoff elections were rejected because they didn’t comply with new state requirements implemented by Texas Republicans this year. Most are in the Democratic runoff. Voters still have time to fix their ballots.
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Congratulations to our journalists, and others from El Paso, who won awards in a statewide journalism contest this weekend. It’s a reminder of the important work by news organizations for our community.
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El Paso Matters'
@tristan_claudia
retraces the events of Aug. 3, 2019, through the eyes of the Walmart store manager, a surgeon, a congresswoman, the head of an El Paso nonprofit and a funeral director.
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A Border Patrol agent logged welfare checks that didn’t happen. Only one medical professional was caring for 200 sick migrants. The government hasn’t said whether anyone is being punished. A joint report from
@ProPublica
and
@ElPasoMatters
.
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Dr. Chandra Ojha is an interventional cardiologist in a medically underserved community. But the Indian-born doctor may not be able to stay in the U.S. because the Senate let his visa program lapse.
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In his first campaign event of 2022,
@BetoORourke
cast himself as a candidate able to win over Texans across the political spectrum, something he must do if he wants to secure victory in November’s gubernatorial election.
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El Paso police for years have used annual reports to show they don't have issues profiling motorists based on race or ethnicity. But writer
@DebbieNathan2
took a closer look at the data and found a more troubling picture. 1/
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The exercise plans came as President Trump was trying to create a frenzy around a migrant caravan ahead of the election.
@CBP
had conducted similar exercises at international bridges as the election drew near, but not Border Patrol. 4/
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“BP plans to make this interesting to excess,” one CBP official warned the week before. “Make sure the media are there. Especially (Mexican) media,” another official wrote. 2/
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El Paso community activist Leona Ford Washington spent years amassing an expansive and captivating collection of photos of El Paso Black history, covering more than 100 years.
Take a look at our slideshow with select images from her photo collection:
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Rick Carlos admired his training officer, Greg Allen, who later became El Paso's police chief. But he also worried about aggressive tactics. Carlos' essay is about his experience, but also about late 20th century policing that set the stage for today.
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“We are deeply appalled by the actions of the Texas National Guard, which under Gov. Abbott's leadership has continued to usurp federal authority and unleash unnecessary chaos at our southern border,”
@border_human
's Fernando Garcia says of the shooting.
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WATCH: We talked about a wide range of issues with
@BetoORourke
, including his own political plans.
O’Rourke said he hasn't decided whether to run for governor in 2022. But he sounded like a candidate. He also had choice words for
@KenPaxtonTX
.
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The El Paso Matters website is now live. Here's why we're launching this new independent, nonprofit news organization for El Paso and the Paso del Norte region.
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The first-ever El Paso Starbucks to try to unionize canceled a planned protest and may call off its vote – and a union organizer says that intimidation tactics from Starbucks management is to blame.
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El Paso Matters CEO
@BobMooreNews
will sit down virtually with
@betoorourke
to discuss El Paso vaccination efforts, gun issues, voting rights, Texas politics and his plans for the future.
Sign up here:
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Our analysis of county elections records found that the new Texas voting law disenfranchised 16% of El Paso County’s mail-in voters, who are some of the community's longest-tenured and most active voters. A majority are women and Hispanics.
#txlege
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Yurimar and Johnny gave up food so their children and dog had enough to eat during their 4-month journey from Venezuela. Now, they are reunited in the United States with their beloved pup, Simba.
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The Border Patrol planned horses, helicopters and simulated tear gas for the exercise, which was to take place between the Chihuahuita neighborhood and the Paso del Norte Bridge. On Election Day 2018. 3/
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1/ CBP and ICE don't track the number of Indigenous migrants they apprehend and detain.
But in the challenging immigration process, the barriers are even greater for Indigenous migrants.
That's why we created a new investigative series looking at indigeneity and migration.🧵
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Meet our newest reporter,
@prokopdani
, who will focus on the environment and the impacts of climate change on the Paso del Norte region.
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We're excited to welcome our newest reporter
@ProkopDani
, who will be covering environmental issues in the borderland region.
Be sure to give her a follow!
Personal news: I’ll be headed from Western Nebraska to West Texas soon.
In April, I start remotely for
@elpasomatters
as an environmental reporter.
I’m beyond excited to work with this awesome team! Please send me book and El Paso food recs.
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"We all know that El Paso is very resilient and an incredible community, but it’s going to take time still for the community to heal from four very painful and dark years,”
@RepEscobar
says.
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Bob Snead lived a life worth celebrating -, husband, father, soldier, artist, actor. His creative energy was focused on telling important but little-known stories about Blacks in the military.
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In the first week of early voting, El Paso County already has seen more ballots cast than in the entire 12-day early voting periods of all but one previous midterm election. Early voting continues through Friday.
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Here’s how
#TX23
incumbent
@TonyGonzales4TX
and challenger
@LiraForCongress
differ on major federal policy issues, including abortion, guns and immigration.
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The percentage of
@UTEP
tenured faculty who are Hispanic is twice as large as any other major research university in the country.
@jewljackson1
explains how UTEP got there, and why faculty diversity matters.
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Mexican June corn was once a popular crop in the Southwest. Now an El Paso tortilleria has teamed up with New Mexico farmers to bring back this nearly extinct heirloom corn.
@priscillatotiya
reports:
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Former El Paso DA Jaime Esparza has been nominated by President Biden as the new U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas. If approved, he’d oversee the federal prosecution of the 2019 mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart.
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Frustrations with a U.S. government app combined with false social media reports Sunday to create chaos at the bridge linking the downtown areas of El Paso and Juárez,
@CorrieBoudreaux
reports.
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The House on Monday named 12 managers to prosecute Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial in the Senate, including
@moodyforelpaso
.
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UPDATE: Starting March 29, all Texas adults will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.
We've rounded up all the places to sign up for the vaccine here:
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Some
@SocorroISD
teachers and staff are unhappy with the district’s new health insurance plan and its higher co-pays. Here’s why the district switched providers and why the school board is now reversing some benefit options.
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El Paso is a city that shows others what the future of Texas will likely look like. Join us and
@TexasTribune
April 11 at
@ttuhscep
for a daylong symposium focused on how Texas communities can learn from the Sun City’s successes. RSVP:
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Renowned El Paso author
@BenjaminASaenz
says he hopes the movie “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe,” based on his young adult novel, will show at the Plaza Theatre sometime after it premieres at the
@TIFF_NET
this fall.
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The Socorro Independent School District is using a $9.85 million grant from the EPA to replace 25 of its school buses with electric buses.
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After five months of waiting for President Heather Wilson’s approval,
@UTEP
has approved a land acknowledgement that recognizes that the campus resides on Indigenous lands,
@JewlJackson1
reports.
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"One of the beautiful things about this is that, through this crisis, we’re seeing unity – it’s bringing people together to help each other out.” El Pasoans are producing masks for their neighbors and medical professionals,
@ziembavision
reports.
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“We will vigorously defend the freedom of people of faith and goodwill to put deeply held religious convictions into practice,”
@BishopSeitz
says in response to
@KenPaxtonTX
targeting
@AHouseElPaso
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Interim Police Chief Peter Pacillas says off-duty officers were working in the mall and were on scene 3 minutes after first shooting reports and one took a suspect in custody. Two people are in custody. All detained and wounded are males.
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Most of West Texas’ population is in El Paso, but much of the water isn’t. To accommodate El Paso’s growing population, El Paso Water plans to eventually pipe water from Dell City, 90 miles away.
@ProkopDani
&
@psskow
explore the status of that plan. ⬇️
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An
@EPPOLICE
officer made a sex tape of a detective without her consent. One reportedly tried filming his female co-workers in a women’s locker room. Another sexually harassed his female trainee after a traffic stop.
@victoriaerossi
investigates.
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A watchdog report found that Border Patrol agents falsely recorded welfare checks on Carlos Hernandez Vasquez, 16, as he lay dead in his cell, but the Justice Department declined to bring any criminal charges. Our joint report with
@ProPublica
.
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Texas senator and U.S. senate candidate Roland Gutierrez has been endorsed by El Paso’s Eastside Democrats.
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.
@RepEscobar
is asking the
@TheJusticeDept
to investigate a migrant death as a hate crime. Two men were booked in El Paso County jail after shooting at immigrants in West Texas, killing one & injuring another.
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For the second time in recent weeks, El Paso's
@mayor_margo
has made inflammatory remarks about COVID-19, this time comparing hospitalization rates of Hispanics to those for "normal Caucasians,"
@Elida_S_Perez
reports.
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"Our community is being targeted like we are the enemy, as people who don’t belong here, as people who have never belonged here, as people who only take and don’t give."
@georgelopez
's message to El Paso voters.
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BREAKING: Patrick Crusius indicted on federal charges of hate crime resulting in death to kill; use of firearm in a crime of violence. Charges stem from the Aug. 3 mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart that killed 22; Crusius allegedly told police he wanted to "kill Mexicans" 1/
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.
@RepEscobar
called her arrest “a small act in the centuries-long battle to ensure every woman has the freedom to make personal decisions with those they love and trust without politicians trying to control them.”
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Meet our new editor, Ramon Bracamontes. An El Paso native, he has been a reporter and editor in his hometown since 1984.
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