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Energy and environment reporter in Texas with @insideclimate | former El Paso Times & freelance in Mexico | running/cycling nerd
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I don't know about you, but I can't stop thinking about how in Texas — the energy capital of the world — so many people struggle to pay summer electric bills.
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State troopers are surrounding a Palestine solidarity protest at UT Austin right now.
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Dem candidate
@BetoORourke
greeted supporters before casting his primary ballot today in El Paso.
"Our volunteers and the voters of the state of Texas are going to be the answer to this voter suppression," he said.
📸:
@fotornelas
@elpasotimes
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Good morning! It's my first day as a Texas reporter at
@insideclimate
. I'm staying in El Paso and will be reporting on environmental and climate issues across the state.
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The El Paso shooter said he was responding to a "Hispanic invasion." Three years later, the Texas GOP is calling on Abbott to declare an invasion on the border.
I reported on how these ideas impact El Paso and communities like it. (1)
@elpasotimes
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In 1970, Josue "George" Garza was one of the only Mexican-American teachers at Robb ES. When admin denied him a new contract, 100s of students walked out, starting a decades-long struggle to desegregate Uvalde schools.
W/
@nicoleMfoy
&
@fotornelas
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Asylum is not a loophole
@nytimes
NYT describes a legal right under US immigration law and the Geneva Refugee Convention as a “loophole”
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I have nothing to add the *the discourse* other than to say the coffee shop I go to in downtown El Paso is usually quiet but today it’s bustling with Border Patrol agents and reporters. The border industrial complex is booming.
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From the air, it’s easy to see that El Paso and Juárez are one community, cleaved in half by the border. (And that the channelized, militarized Rio Grande is in bad shape).
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Left: Garza in a 1970 photo published in the Uvalde Leader-News, days before the walkout.
Right: in today’s
@elpasotimes
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There is no electricity, people are probably running out of food and supplies... yet we're still calling them looters? I thought the media learned this lesson after Katrina. (This is from WashPo).
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A Mexican gray wolf named Mr. Goodbar paced along the border wall in New Mexico last month before turning back. I wrote in
@elpasotimes
how border wall construction impacts the wolf’s ongoing recovery.
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Juárez vigil to honor murdered journalists and demand justice. Three Mexican journalists—Margarito, Lourdes and José Luis—have been killed this month.
@elpasotimes
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I got to witness the Rio Grande in all its glory in Albuquerque this weekend. Snow melt like woah.
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I've only been at
@elpasotimes
for three months but I've already been able to report some of the most meaningful stories of my career. Local journalism is absolutely essential, so take a look at our recent reporting and consider subscribing (great deal available this week!)
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The Walmart shooter said he was defending against an invasion before killing 23 people in El Paso.
Three years later Texas Republicans say the state is being invaded.
My latest for
@elpasotimes
:
As El Paso struggles to heal, Walmart shooter's rhetoric builds in GOP
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Unsafe and illegal conditions at Mexican immigration detention centers have been documented for years. This is tragic and could have been avoided.
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I know I'm a broken record, but El Paso is getting a lot hotter, a lot faster than other places. Nice data visualization from the Trib.
Record-breaking heat is becoming the new normal in Texas. But extreme heat isn’t impacting every part of Texas the same.
The biggest jumps in record-breaking temperatures are in West Texas, the Panhandle, and the Gulf.
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Everything is blooming. Saludos from the desierto chihuahuense ☀️
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“Abbott's new border policies are ill-conceived, reckless and unnecessary. Worse, they aren't solving anything, only creating new problems at an astronomical cost of billions in taxpayers' money.”
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I love this map! If your map of the Rio Grande doesn't include Mexico, you're doing it wrong.
(pulled this one from a CONAGUA presentation)
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I reported for
@insideclimate
on Claudia Sheinbaum's climate & energy platform. Sheinbaum promotes the renewal energy transition but also calls for increased oil production. Many of MORENA's development projects will require increased natural gas imports.
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They're Pulitzer finalists. Time for
@Gannett
to give
@statesman
reporters a fair contract.
The Pulitzer Prizes honored the Austin American-Statesman on Monday as a finalist for the award's Gold Medal for meritorious public service, the nation's most prestigious journalism honor, for its groundbreaking coverage of the Uvalde mass shooting.
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Interior Secretary
@SecDebHaaland
was in El Paso this morning with
@RepEscobar
to learn about local efforts to protect the Castner Range.
@elpasotimes
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A new report from
@NoMoreDeaths
finds that deaths of migrants in the El Paso sector (which includes New Mexico) have soared since 2019. Deaths are concentrated around El Paso/Sunland Park.
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Views of the Franklin Mountains flying into El Paso. These mountains have Precambrian rocks that are over a billion years old. 🗻
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Hard to beat the views over El Paso/Juárez on my morning rides 🌄🚲
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“It’s going to be tough when I have to type up 21 death certificates,”
—Uvalde Justice of the Peace Lalo Diaz.
In this small town, everyone is connected to the shooting victims.
With
@fotornelas
Justice of the Peace Eulalio Diaz worked into the night identifying 19 children and two adults who were gunned down in an elementary school classroom in Uvalde, Texas.
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If you're looking for ways to help the migrants and asylum seekers arriving in El Paso,
@priscillatotiya
put together a list of local organizations seeking donations and volunteers:
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The US & Mexico negotiated all last year to improve water deliveries on the Rio Grande. But the talks fell through.
I reported for
@insideclimate
on why the two countries can’t agree and what that means for people who depend on Rio Grande water.
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Three years ago, Chihuahua farmers occupied La Boquilla dam to protest water deliveries to the U.S.
@fotornelas
and I reported in Chihuahua on the conflict that threatens to boil over once again.
@insideclimate
/
@elpasotimes
w/ support from
@TheWaterDesk
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I reported w/
@alereports
on the proposed Saguaro Connector Pipeline in W. Texas. It's one piece of a project to connect the Permian Basin to LNG markets in Asia. Van Horn residents are speaking out b/c the pipeline would pass within a mile of town.
@TexasTribune
/
@insideclimate
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People attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in and around El Paso are drowning in canals and dying by dehydration.
"This is a major human rights crisis at the border," said Fernando Garcia of
@HopeBorder
With
@laurenvillagran
@elpasotimes
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My first time running across the border this morning in the International 10k. Very cool race!
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Last week I camped in Colorado's San Juan Mountains near the headwaters of the Rio Grande. The river forms 9,000+ ft above sea level and flows nearly 1,900 miles to the Gulf of Mexico.
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The US role in shaping Mexican immigration enforcement was an open secret for years. Now they’re just… tweeting it out?
28 agentes del
@INAMI_mx
recibieron entrenamiento para el manejo efectivo del flujo migratorio en coordinación con la
@GN_MEXICO_
. El entrenamiento auspiciado por
#INLM
éxico y encabezado por
@CBP
se llevó a cabo en El Paso, Texas, del 15 al 20 de noviembre de 2021.
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Feminist and LGBTQ collectives in Juárez marched today calling for investigations into the murders of Nohemí and Yulizsa. The couple are among 11 women killed so far this month.
@elpasotimes
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Mr. Garza, now in his 80s, worries how the shooting will impact the progress his town has made.
“I don’t want this community to go back to what it was before the walkout,” he said. “We need to come together and work together to keep Uvalde moving forward.”
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Hundreds of trucks are lined up for miles at the Zaragoza international bridge, waiting to cross into El Paso. Truckers are now blocking access, calling on authorities to intervene and reduce the wait times.
@elpasotimes
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The crowd is gathering for
@BetoORourke
’s first campaign event in El Paso since announcing his run for governor. The meet & greet is at the downtown DeadBeach brewery.
@elpasotimes
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Experts in Mexican politics are coming out of the woodwork. They’re like cicadas… they will re-emerge in six years but we won’t hear from them in the meantime.
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One year ago: the view from Scenic on my first morning as an El Paso resident. It’s been a good first year. ☀️
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Texas is lining the Rio Grande in El Paso with shipping containers. In Juárez, environmentalists called it a "political trick" will impact the already beleaguered ecosystem.
@elpasotimes
with
@i_p_a_1
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Driving from El Paso, Texas to Las Cruces, New Mexico is a tour of the US policy divide: billboards for NM’s new clean fuel standard, billboards for dispensaries, billboards in support of abortion access.
Never boring to live on a regulatory frontier 🤠
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For my water/border nerds out there, the exhibit on the Chamizal dispute & treaty at Juárez’s Museo de Arquelogía e Historia is fascinating. The maps alone were worth the visit.
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There's a small town in West Texas that's been without safe drinking water almost five years. I teamed up with
@BordenMitch
of
@MarfaRadio
to understand why.
@insideclimate
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Early morning trail runs in El Paso's Franklin Mountains feat. sotol and ocotillo. 🌄⛰️
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One month ago, within sight of El Paso, 40 people died at a Mexican immigration detention facility. Make no mistake: these deaths are because of US policy.
Manuel Alexander Chox Tambriz left his small village in western Guatemala to seek a better life. He returned home in a casket as a victim of the fire that overtook a detention center in Ciudad
#Ju
árez.
Share his story:
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👻 a spooky story from the oilfields 👻
Close to 150 million gallons of salty produced water spilled in TX in the last decade. But don't ask
@txrrc
- they have no official rule for these spills and don't track these totals.
W/
@paldhous
in
@insideclimate
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Measuring and mitigating methane emissions would require boots on the ground across Texas. I reported on the growing methane mitigation sector & a new report from
@TXClimateJobs
.
@insideclimate
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@elpasotimes
Trump and Abbott's anti-immigrant rhetoric was scrutinized after the shooting that killed 23 people in El Paso. A U.S. House Committee held a hearing in El Paso on the link anti-immigrant rhetoric and domestic terrorism. (2)
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the desert is hot but it sure is beautiful.
📍franklin mountains
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Millions of gallons of sewage are stinking up the Rio Grande. The broken pipelines show the urgency of investing in wastewater infrastructure in El Paso and across Texas.
My latest in
@elpasotimes
.
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Beto focused on Abbott’s record on the border and public health. He was defiant of the long odds for his run, saying “El Paso is a city of underdogs.”
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El Paso is voting on an ambitious climate resolution this week. I took a deep dive on the stakes for our border city and the misinformation surrounding Prop K.
@insideclimate
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I spent the last few weeks digging into air pollution in El Paso/Juárez with photographer
@fotornelas
. Officials in TX, NM & Chihuahua said collaboration is the solution to this shared problem, but that's easier said than done. (1)
@elpasotimes
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Glad to see more national outlets shedding light on the sorry state of the Rio Grande, feat.
@insideclimate
and Border Chronicle shoutouts!
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Happy 100th to the Gila Wilderness. The first designated wilderness area and my personal fave.
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Juárez cyclists cross the border regularly to take advantage of El Paso’s roads & mountains. Then pandemic border restrictions stopped them for nearly two years. Now one binational club is welcoming them back.
@elpasotimes
👇🚴♀️
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Happy holiday reading time to those who observe…
@kathycorcoran
wrote the book I’ve been waiting for on violence against Mexican journalists.
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"Before O'Rourke got into the governor's race, Hinojosa said the party talked to several potential candidates who had no interest in taking on a Republican incumbent with $40 million in his campaign account "
“Don’t write the guy off.”
Lot of folks ready to write a political obituary for this guy, but ease up y’all. Sure he lost 2 statewides & a presidential he was never really ready for, but name me a TX Dem that can energize the base and raise money like him
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Binational Rio Grande stories coming atcha, with
@fotornelas
. Thank you
@TheWaterDesk
for the support!
We’re excited to award a total of $48,430 to these journalists and media outlets to support their coverage of water issues in New Mexico and the Rio Grande Basin.
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At Día de Muertos in Juárez, an altar for journalists murdered in Chihuahua and the rest of Mexico.
(Hecho por
@yociudadanojrz
)
#NoSeMataLaVerdad
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And Texans aren't any safer. I spoke to
@MonicaMnzMtz
a historian from Uvalde. “The rhetoric of needing to defend the border has meant that people and law enforcement were looking in the wrong direction," she said, referring to the school shooting in her hometown. (6)
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reminder: this story is available to republish, like all my stories! and we have a Spanish translation coming soon.
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Texas is permitting releases of treated oilfield wastewater into rivers from the Pecos to the Atascosa. Some see a solution to reduce underground disposal. Others warn we don't know enough about pollutants in the water.
w/
@DylanBaddour
& 📸 Justin Hamel
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For decades the residents of Hueco Tanks have been told it’s “too expensive” to get municipal water to their homes. A new technology is meeting the urgent need for clean water in Hueco Tanks.
@insideclimate
& photos by
@fotornelas
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Beto has taken the stage. He says he wants to thank everyone. “This may be one of the last times,” he says.
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11 women, including a same sex couple, have been killed so far this year in Juárez. Protesters today called on authorities to end the impunity.
Story with
@fotornelas
@elpasotimes
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Too late for my story, but the El Paso Fire Department tells me in the last seven days they have responded to 26 heat-related emergencies and transported 19 of those individuals to a medical facility.
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He calls out Abbott for blocking local officials from taking public health measures during the pandemic, contributing to El Paso’s high death toll from COVID-19.
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In honor of signing up for the EP half marathon, here are some desert running pics!
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Pols like
@georgepbush
, who in 2019 denounced the "white terrorist" killer, in 2022 called for an invasion to be declared. The
@TexasGOP
included the language in its party platform. Rightwing thinktank
@amrenewctr
promotes it. And Texas counties started declaring invasions (4)
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Air pollution in El Paso exceeds federal standards. But the burden isn't shared equally: neighborhoods like Chamizal, smack dab on the border, face more hazardous air pollution. Residents are calling on regulators to do better.
My latest in
@elpasotimes
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Local outlets like
@elpasotimes
@MarfaRadio
@bigbendsentinel
are providing ongoing coverage of this case. Give
@travisbubenik
@AllegraEHobbs
@damicoaustin
@ujohnnyg
a follow if you want to stay up to date.
A group of migrants were hunted and shot by brothers Michael and Mark Sheppard last month. At the time, Michael was warden of the West Texas Detention Center run by the private prison company LaSalle Corrections. Under the Trump admin, this would have been much bigger news.
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I’ve followed wildfires on the news for a long time but it’s an undeniably different feeling to see a place you know burn down. This is basically El Paso’s backyard. Heart goes out to everyone impacted.
This is what’s left of the Swiss Chalet Inn in Ruidoso.
The building was destroyed by the South Fork Fire sometime between Monday night and Tuesday. Several cars were left in the parking lot - signaling evacuees only had moments to flee.
#southforkfire
#ruidoso
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El Paso leaders continue to call out this racist rhetoric, saying it could inspire more violence.
"These politicians considered those innocent lives collateral damage in their quest for power,"
@vgescobar
told me. (5)
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But for over a decade, right-wing politicians have pushed for border states to invoke the "invasion clause" of the Constitution which would allow them to "engage in war." This idea has gained even more currency this year, an election year in Arizona and Texas. (3).
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This is what a decades-old produced water spill looks like. In my story out today, I report how these spills are killing vegetation and wildlife and contaminating ground and surface water from the Permian Basin to the Pineywoods.
@insideclimate
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The latest Permian Basin well-blowout is leaving landowners w/ more questions than answers.
The mystery well spewed thousands of barrels of saltwater and cost $2.5 million to clean up.
@criacuervosvibe
& I dug into what it all means.
📸
@sarahmvasquez
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Marathon PR (3:48) and now watching the Super Bowl w/ my people. A great day in El Paso. 🙌
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Texas doesn't restrict how much companies can donate to the campaigns of oil and gas regulators. That's how you have a company donating upwards of $50,000 to the regulators deciding on its permit application. 👇
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This was my first story “big” story as a reporter. It meant so much to me as a wanna-be foreign correspondent. A lot of us have stories like that about Vice. If it felt hard in 2015, I’m not sure how anyone can get a foot in the door in journalism today.
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In the second most important sporting event of today, I set a personal record in the El Paso half marathon (1:43)💃
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Happy
#NationalBurritoDay
. Here’s a recent fave: deshebrada a la mexicana on the far east side.
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My work computer folder names read like the four horsemen of the apocalypse: air pollution, extreme heat, wastewater, climate change.
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Today’s assignment: hiking on public lands alongside the Castner Range with
@CastnerRangeNM
and
@HispanicAccess
.
@elpasotimes
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This language and rhetoric has real impacts. "They haven't learned the power of their words. It creates situations where people could die," Sylvia Acosta told me. (end)
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They turned the river back on!
Good morning from the Rio Grande.
Caballo is opened and water is running below Elephant Butte. Folks in the upper Rincón have seen water in the river since May 1. But soon water will run through Las Cruces, El Paso and Ciudad Juárez
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The US has essentially closed avenues to enter the country legally at the border so cities like Juarez have seen a big increase in stranded migrants and asylum seekers. Now this.
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Touring El Paso’s desalination plant! Brackish groundwater is turned into fresh drinking water using reverse osmosis. It’s the largest inland desal in the world. 🔬👩🔬
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The border wall blocked Mr. Goodbar from traveling south into Mexico last year.
Then someone shot him in New Mexico.
This indefatigable wolf is now convalescing in ABQ.
@elpasotimes
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After nearly two years, as of today vaccinated individuals can enter the U.S. for non-essential travel. Traffic is light at the Paso Del Norte bridge. Some people were reuniting with family or stocking up at El Paso shops.
@elpasotimes
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