434 Views ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Since Biden took, office he has not been to the U.S. -Mexico border. On Sunday, that finally happened in El Paso, Texas, but no New Mexico officials joined the president.
383 Views On Sunday, President Joe Biden toured the border city, including the Bridge of the Americas port of entry. During the president’s visit, hundreds of migrants sought food, water, and shelter at Sacred Heart Church in Downtown El Paso.
376 Views EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Mark Seitz of El Paso is the first bishop from a state along the Mexico border to head the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ migration committee in at least 20 years. With a migrant shelter literally in his backyard and his diocese smack
388 Views HEBRON, Ky. (AP) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday he intends to visit the U.S.-Mexico border — his first since taking office — in connection with his meeting next week in Mexico City with the leaders of Mexico and Canada.
440 Views Last week several rabbis from the Jewish organizations T’ruah and HIAS travelled to El Paso to witness firsthand the immigration crisis at the border. Scott Brocato spoke with four of the rabbis about their experiences there and what they witnessed.
476 Views Title 42 allows our government to prevent certain people from making a claim for asylum during public health emergencies. Changes are coming to the way our federal government handles asylum seekers. The federal government plans to end the use of Title 42 to expel migrants on Dec. 21.
408 Views TORRANCE COUNTY, N.M. – For months now we’ve heard report after report of mistreatment inside the Torrance County Detention Facility, a privately-run center. Now, attorneys say a second migrant detainee attempted to take his own life late last month to escape the conditions inside.
395 Views “As we started interviewing people, we immediately discovered that they did not speak English,” Decker said. There’s been an increase in migrants coming across our southern border over the last few months, and many of those migrants are ending up in Albuquerque.
384 Views ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – One anonymous tip to law enforcement about a stash house in southeast Albuquerque recently saved dozens of lives. Investigators found 69 immigrants in a trailer, and at least one man, Rolando Joaquin-Miguel, is facing federal charges in connection to it.
413 Views For the second time this year, migrants detained in New Mexico have reportedly staged a hunger strike to protest allegedly inhumane conditions inside privately-run detention facilities.
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