EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Migrant shelters in Juarez, Mexico, were still at near capacity just last week. New groups from South and Central America arrived to the city daily in buses, vans andriding atop cargo trains. But on Friday, some of the largest private and government-run ...
EL PASO, Texas(Border Report)– Dozens of men, women and children crammed into a single room with no air-conditioning or freedom of movement. Food is scarce and water bottles are passed around mouth to mouth. There is little to no personal privacy and a long line to share ...
“The groundwork is being laid here in Texas for a larger assault on nonprofits that are just trying to protect people’s civil rights,” said Rochelle Garza, president of the Texas Civil Rights Project, an advocacy group. For the last year, Texas has launched ...
When she visits patients in their new Texas communities, they routinely introduce relatives or neighbors who also need help with severe trauma but lack the stability and safety necessary for healing. “The estimated level of need is at least five times higher than we support,” said Leonce Byim...
Currently, 40 to 50 people are sent back into Mexico every day and end up Frontera Digna, the largest shelter in Piedras Negras, across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas. Texas, Arizona arming Mexican drug cartels Vicky Cazares, who volunteers at the Catholic church-run faci...
WATCH: Migrant families scale barbed wire fence into South Texas “I know about the asylum appointments; I cannot wait for an appointment because they stole my documents, my money, everything,” said Johan Gutierrez, a Venezuelan migrant who would get to enjoy the safety and shade of the sh...
TIJUANA (Border Report) -- Space at migrant shelters is now at a premium as facilities have begun turning people away, said José María García Lara, who runs one shelter in Tijuana.
Dr. Brian Elmore, right, with the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, Texas, checks the bleeding nose of Honduran migrant Elvin Cruz, 5, as his mother, Diana Rosales, looks on at a government-run shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. (AP Ph...
For the past year, Texas has launched investigations into six organizations that provide shelter, food and travel advice to migrants. Courts have so far largely rebuffed the state’s efforts, including rejecting a lawsuit to shut down El Paso’s Annunciation House, but several cases remain on ap...
In one testimonial, a 13-year-old from Honduras said she had been placed on a suicide watch list while at an emergency shelter at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. The girl, who had spent nearly two months at the facility as of June 4, said she was separated from her father when crossi...