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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 ...
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 ...
More than 136,000 low-income people in El Paso County are eligible for food benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Growing SNAP applications backlog leaves El Paso ...
El Paso (/ ɛ l ˈ p æ s oʊ /; Spanish: [el ˈpaso]; lit. ' the route ' or ' the pass ') is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, [5] making it the 22nd-most populous city in the U.S., the most populous city in West Texas, and the sixth-most populous city in Texas. [8]
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 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 ...
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 ...