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El Paso

June 2024

  • A young Latina woman with black hair pulled into a bun on top of her head, smiling and wearing a pink sweatshirt, holds an infant girl, also in pink, and a long paper box covered in cellophane filled with glazed puffy doughnuts. Behind them is a one-story building with a peaked roof, covered in a colorful mural with religious themes.

    ‘The other Ellis Island’: the US border area that sees the whole of global migration

    While political leaders hundreds of miles away clash over the border ‘crisis’, the El Paso sector has served more than 200,000 people since October

February 2024

  • Vehicles queue to cross into the city of El Paso on the Mexico side of the Bridge of Americas on 3 November 2020.

    America's dirty divide
    ‘You can taste it’: El Paso residents fear air pollution will worsen after border crossing upgrade

    Neighbors want to ‘get the trucks out’ as the idling vehicles choke the air, causing a public health concern in the historically disadvantaged area

May 2023

  • The Paso del Norte international bridge connects Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, with El Paso, Texas.

    El Paso braces for end of pandemic-era rules restricting migration from Mexico

    Tens of thousands of migrants are expected to cross the border once Title 42 rules expire, overwhelming support services

March 2023

  • Mexico: fatal fire spreads through Ciudad Juárez immigration detention centre – video

  • Drilling rig by the side of a road

    America's dirty divide
    Texas youth organizers take aim at the biggest oil field in the US

February 2023

  • Law enforcement members gather outside the Cielo Vista Mall after a shooting in El Paso.

    El Paso shooting near Walmart where 23 were killed brings ‘traumatic memories’

  • An ambulance arrives at the Cielo Vista mall in El Paso on Wednesday.

    One killed and three hurt in shooting at Texas mall near site of 2019 mass killing

January 2023

  • A woman kneels in front of a memorial near the Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in August 2019.

    Accused Texas Walmart shooter to plead guilty to federal charges

    Man who allegedly killed 23 people in El Paso in 2019 still faces state-level murder charges and could be sentenced to death

December 2022

  • Immigrants seeking asylum turn themselves in to US border patrol agents after wading across the Rio Grande to El Paso, Texas, in December.

    Confusion and tension high at US-Mexico border despite upholding of Covid-era rules

    Emergency housing, food and other essentials had been set up in preparation for an influx of migrants at Texas border cities

November 2022

  • Young climate activists stage a "die-in" across from the White House on Earth Day in April 2022.

    Voters pass historic climate initiatives in ‘silent surprise’ of US midterms

    The electoral support at the state and local levels for more climate action comes as world leaders meet at Cop27

October 2022

  • Migrants continue to cross the border to El Paso<br>Asylum-seeking migrants wait in line before boarding buses to New York and Chicago at the Migrant Welcome Center managed by the city of El Paso and the Office of Emergency Management, in El Paso, Texas, U.S., October 3, 2022. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

    El Paso struggles to house migrants after shelter closes as border crossings surge

    City’s new facility has to find shelters for those without alternative after a 40-year beacon of refuge shuttered earlier this year

August 2021

  • Mexican residents rode busses across the border during a binational Covid-19 vaccination program, in Tornillo, Texas.

    El Paso: how one Texas city is beating the coronavirus

    Huge outreach effort involving vaccines for Mexicans across the border has seen El Paso become one of America’s most vaccinated cities

April 2021

  • Early Voting in the US Presidential Election is underway in Texas<br>epa08747840 A voter shows off their ‘I voted’ sticker after casting a ballot at an early voting polling location for the US Presidential election in Houston, Texas, USA, 15 October 2020. US presidential elections are scheduled for 03 November 2020. EPA/AARON M. SPRECHER

    The Daca immigrant fighting to empower young Texas voters

    Claudia Yoli Ferla, incoming executive director at Move Texas, is trying to turn first-time voters into lifetime organizers

October 2020

  • US-TEXAS-HEALTH-VIRUS-ECONOMY<br>Cars line up for Covid-19 tests at the University of Texas El Paso on October 23, 2020 in El Paso, Texas. - The city has seen a surge in cases, reporting over 1,150 new cases on October 22. (Photo by Paul Ratje / AFP) (Photo by PAUL RATJE/AFP via Getty Images)

    'We're in a crisis stage': Texas border city reels from coronavirus surge

    El Paso is dealing with triple the number of Covid cases of its previous peak and the health system is under strain

August 2020

  • Catalina Saenz wipes tears from her face as she visits a makeshift memorial near the scene of the El Paso mass shooting

    'It was fueled by hate and bigotry': one year on from the El Paso shooting

    Since a gunman killed 23 in the Texas border town, it’s faced anti-immigrant rhetoric from Donald Trump – and now Covid-19

November 2019

  • Walmart employees gather outside the El Paso store for the reopening, three months after a deadly shooting.

    ‘This touched everyone’: Walmart store reopens months after mass shooting

    The border city in eastern Texas continues to recover from the racially-driven attack that targeted Mexicans and killed 22 people

August 2019

  • Dan Patrick,Greg Abbott<br>FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2019, file photo, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gives his State of the State Address in the House Chamber in Austin, Texas. Abbott said Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, he will work to keep guns out of the hands of dangers people, though he never mentioned gun control. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

    Governor criticized for 'disgusting' anti-immigrant email sent day before El Paso attack

  • Democratic Presidential Candidate Beto O’Rourke Gives Campaign Address In His Hometown Town Of El Paso, Texas<br>EL PASO, TX - AUGUST 15: Democratic presidential candidate, former Rep. Beto ORourke (D-TX) speaks to media and supporters during a campaign re-launch on August 15, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. ORourke paused his campaign in order to return to El Paso following the act of terror targeting the city’s Latinx community at a Walmart and has remained in his hometown to honor the legacy of the twenty-two people who lost their lives and provide support to the community. (Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)

    O’Rourke: El Paso shooting makes clear the ‘real consequence’ of Trump racism

  • Antonio Bosco, husband of Margie Reckard who lost her life during a shooting, is offered condolences with flowers Friday, Aug. 16, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. Reckard was killed during the mass shooting on Aug. 3. (AP Photo/Jorge Salgado)

    Thousands mourn El Paso victim Margie Reckard after partner's appeal

  • Sebastián Velasquez

    How El Paso's soccer community is turning loss into action

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