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Jan 19, 2025 | 
elpasomatters.org | Corrie Boudreaux |Cindy Ramirez
Inside the dining room of the Buen Samaritano migrant shelter in Ciudad Juárez, families eat lentil soup as posters around them warn of the risks of misinformation and false news. Sitting at a plastic folding table, a 45-year-old woman from the Mexican state of Michoacán slurps the soup, her husband and son at her side. The family said it has been in Juárez for five months attempting, unsuccessfully, to schedule a CBP One appointment for a chance at asylum in the United States.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
texasstandard.org | Diego Mendoza-Moyers |Corrie Boudreaux
From El Paso Matters:The city of El Paso is preparing to implement a wide-ranging climate action plan in about a year. But after the city lost out on major federal grants that could have provided hundreds of millions of dollars for the effort, there’s a question looming: Who will pay for it? The city, through its 2-year-old climate office, is heading the charge with 11 other local governments, utility companies and business groups under the Chihuahuan Desert Climate Collaborative.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
elpasomatters.org | Corrie Boudreaux
CIUDAD JUAREZ — In a small, hot room, in Ciudad Juárez’s Colonia El Granjero, some of the most accomplished slam poets in the Western Hemisphere performed before an audience of migrants and aid workers at Comunidad AVES.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
texasstandard.org | Robert Moore |Cindy Ramirez |Corrie Boudreaux
From El Paso Matters:An El Paso district court judge has denied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to shut down the Annunciation House network of migrant shelters in El Paso, saying the state was harassing its employees and guests.
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May 1, 2024 | 
globalamericans.org | Corrie Boudreaux
One month ago, an incident between a group of migrants and Texas National Guard personnel made national news when several hundred migrants rushed through fences that the National Guard had erected near Gate 36 at the Juárez-El Paso border. The confrontation, and others like it, was provoked by the practices of personnel under Operation Lone Star.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Corrie Boudreaux
With Mexico’s federal elections just seven weeks away, two leading presidential candidates made visits to border cities over the weekend greeted by crowds of supporters. Frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum appeared in Tijuana to speak to voters about policies on health, education, and Mexico’s place in its North American relationships, while Xóchitl Gálvez, polling in second place, attempted to persuade voters in Juárez with promises of funding for infrastructure and support for Chihuahua Gov.
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
elpasotimes.com | Corrie Boudreaux
Banners depicting Catholic saints and lost loved ones fluttered from the concertina wire strung along the Rio Grande. White crosses bearing the names of deceased migrants leaned on the sharp barbs of the wire. On a wooden platform in the middle of the muddy river bed, three bishops from two countries and three states united to celebrate a bilingual Mass in honor of migrants who died along the long road from their countries of origin to the U.S. border.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
shorturl.at | Corrie Boudreaux |Omar Ornelas
Hundreds of migrants were stranded 300 miles south of the El Paso border after Mexico's largest rail company halted its northbound cargo trains to keep families from riding the rail cars. The U.S. and Mexico vowed harsh actions to deter migrants’ journey north after a significant spike in border crossings in El Paso and other parts of Texas.
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Aug 16, 2023 | 
elpasotimes.com | Corrie Boudreaux
Corrie BoudreauxSpecial to the El Paso TimesWhen 40 men detained in Ciudad Juárez’s National Institute of Migration center died in the smoke and flames of the March 27 fire, most were thousands of miles away from their families. The bodies, blackened by heat and soot, were laid out in rows in a dark parking lot largely devoid of mourners while loved ones in Guatemala, Honduras and Venezuela slept, unaware of the tragedy that would change their lives.
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Jun 26, 2023 | 
elpasomatters.org | Corrie Boudreaux
As the evening light slowly faded over Memorial Park on Friday, the family and friends of Daniel Piedra Garcia gathered on the lawn. Most of them wore green, Piedra’s favorite color. With embraces and soft greetings in English and in Spanish, the mourners paid homage to the memory of their husband, cousin, brother and tío. Piedra, 52, died on Wednesday, five days after he was shot while working as an Uber driver.
