Corrie Boudreaux

3 weeks ago | ktsm.com | Corrie Boudreaux |Cindy Ramirez

(El Paso Matters) — Two young men emerged from the Richard C. White Federal Building in Downtown El Paso on Thursday, laughing together as they turned left onto San Antonio Avenue. It was 1:50 p.m. and 99 degrees. As they reached the corner of South Florence Street just a few steps away, a group of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents converged on them and grabbed Yasmir Marquez by the elbow.

3 weeks ago | elpasomatters.org | Corrie Boudreaux |Cindy Ramirez

Two young men emerged from the Richard C. White Federal Building in Downtown El Paso on Thursday, laughing together as they turned left onto San Antonio Avenue. It was 1:50 p.m. and 99 degrees. As they reached the corner of South Florence Street just a few steps away, a group of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents converged on them and grabbed Yasmir Marquez by the elbow. The two men were quickly surrounded by more federal law enforcement agents, one of whom showed Marquez a document.

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.

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.

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.