Monica Ortiz Uribe
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El Paso, TX, United States
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Trump Administration's 'Remain In Mexico' Program Tangles Legal Process
A federal appeals court this week ruled that a Trump administration program that sends asylum seekers back to Mexico may continue pending a final decision → Read More
Border Residents Remain Skeptical About The Need For An Expanded Wall
Residents along the Southern border with Mexico are not convinced that a longer and strengthened barrier will have much of an impact on their own safety and on border security. → Read More
It's Easy For Migrants To Get Sick; Harder To Get Treatment
Two children recently died in Border Patrol custody. In response, volunteers created pop-up clinics and the Department of Homeland Security ordered medical checks on kids in custody. → Read More
Texas Nonprofit Says ICE Is Releasing Migrants Onto El Paso Streets
As more Central Americans arrive at the border, immigration agencies are already beyond their limits. Nonprofits — like Annunciation House, a shelter organization in El Paso, Texas — is helping out. → Read More
ICE Continues To Release Asylum-Seekers At Public Park In El Paso, Texas
For the third day in a row, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials released hundreds of migrant asylum-seekers at a park near a bus station in → Read More
Migrant Boy Dies In Government Custody In New Mexico Hospital
An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala has died in government custody, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says. He is the second child reported to have died while in U.S. custody within a month. → Read More
U.S. Plans To Expand Tent Camp In Texas For Unaccompanied Migrant Children
Last month, the federal government announced it was expanding the shelter's capacity to 3,800 beds — making it the largest shelter in the system for kids who cross the border solo. → Read More
Mexican Journalist Released, Awaits Asylum Appeal
Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto has been released from months of detention after a judge found credible cause that his First Amendment rights had been violated. → Read More
Moved By The Family Separation Crisis, Volunteers Step Up To Help In Reunification
The work of unifying families separated at the U.S./Mexico border continues although court-imposed deadlines to reunite them have past. In El Paso, the crisis has inspired citizens to get involved. → Read More
Moved By The Family Separation Crisis, Volunteers Step Up To Help In Reunification
The work of unifying families separated at the U.S./Mexico border continues although court-imposed deadlines to reunite them have past. In El Paso, the crisis has inspired citizens to get involved. → Read More
Trump Officials Struggle To Meet Deadlines Even As More Migrant Families Reunited
Two Central American fathers in El Paso were just released from ICE custody and reunited with their toddlers. Attorneys say the reunification process is ongoing, but haphazard and poorly coordinated. → Read More
Trump Officials Struggle To Meet Deadlines Even As More Migrant Families Reunited
Two Central American fathers in El Paso were just released from ICE custody and reunited with their toddlers. Attorneys say the reunification process is ongoing, but haphazard and poorly coordinated. → Read More
Protesters March To Texas Site Holding Detained Immigrant Kids
Hundreds of protesters angry over the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant children from their parents march on a tent city near El Paso, Texas. → Read More
Mexico And U.S. Team Up To Create Low-Cost Wheelchairs
Political tension between the United States and Mexico is making headlines with talk of disrupting longstanding trade deals and constructing a border wall. → Read More
Mexico And U.S. Team Up To Create Low-Cost Wheelchairs
A retired U.S. doc and a Mexican engineer co-founded a nonprofit group that is providing wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs at an affordable price. → Read More
Mexico And U.S. Team Up To Create Low-Cost Wheelchairs
A retired U.S. doc and a Mexican engineer co-founded a nonprofit group that is providing wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs at an affordable price. → Read More
Adios, vaquita marina? Mexico's 'little sea cow' is being pushed to the edge of extinction.
The world's smallest porpoise species has been brought to the edge of extinction by illegal fishing in Mexico. And it's not even the porpoise itself that fishermen are after. → Read More
The Cosmic Campground In New Mexico Is A Sanctuary For Star Gazers
A remote campground in southwest New Mexico has recently become a sanctuary for star gazers seeking a pristine night sky at a time when the rapid spread of light pollution prevents more than half of the world's population from seeing the Milky Way. → Read More
A place where the stars are so bright you can see your shadow by starlight
A remote campground in southwest New Mexico has recently become the world's second dark sky sanctuary for star gazers. The rapid spread of light pollution prevents more than half of the world's population from seeing the Milky Way. → Read More
This Mexican canyon is alive with the sound of music
In northern Mexico, there's a place called Copper Canyon. It cuts six slits into the Earth and hidden between the cliffs and valleys is where an American concert pianist has decided to settle with his one-ton grand piano. → Read More