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The city of El Paso declined to extend its state of emergency related to the ongoing migrant humanitarian crisis. An Emergency Ordinance was first approved May 8, 2023, and city leaders argued it ...
The United States Border Patrol operates 71 traffic checkpoints, including 33 permanent traffic checkpoints, near the Mexico–United States border. [1] [2] The stated primary purpose of these inspection stations is to deter illegal immigration and smuggling activities.
The mayor of a Texas border city declared a state of emergency Saturday over concerns about the community's ability to handle an anticipated influx of migrants across the Southern border. El Paso ...
El Paso County leaders say a recent surge in migrant arrests by the state has cost the border county millions of dollars and spurred them to issue a disaster declaration this week — a move they ...
In October 2019, in a separate case, a U.S. district court in Texas found that the El Paso County, Texas and the Border Network for Human Rights had legal standing to challenge Trump's attempt to divert $3.6 billion in military construction for wall construction along the Mexico border, and in December 2019, the court issued a permanent ...
In practice, this would include the homeless poor, and undocumented people. [11] The first location was acquired in autumn 1977, through the Diocese of El Paso loaning a vacant building. The first volunteers moved into the building on February 3, 1978. [11] Volunteers from around the country came to El Paso to help the shelter. [12]
The city of El Paso is once again covered by a pair of emergency declarations giving it the authority to open a standalone shelter for asylum-seekers crossing into the city from Mexico.
In April 2023, Leeser joined mayors of other border cities, such as Brownsville, Texas, and declared a state of emergency in El Paso in preparation for the expiration of Title 42 expulsion on May 11. The state of emergency could only stand on its own for seven days, at which point it had to be approved for extension by the El Paso City Council ...