Last updated November 19, 2023. Download a PDF packet of infographics at bit.ly/wola_border_infographics.
Border Patrol Migrant Encounters in El Paso Sector
Tag: El Paso
West Seneca man fatally shot by border agents in New Mexico desert
Published by News 4 Buffalo on September 25, 2023.
A deep look at the April 2023 Border Patrol shooting of a man wielding a club, following a vehicle pursuit in New Mexico. Reveals that the man suffered from mental illness.
Results of Unannounced Inspections of CBP Holding Facilities in the El Paso Area
Published by the DHS Office of Inspector-General on September 15, 2023.
Visits to El Paso CBP holding facilities at a time of high migration found “compliance with standards such as segregating males, females, and juveniles; managing property; providing regularly scheduled meals and showers; and maintaining cleanliness of holding rooms” to be “inconsistent.” (link at oig.dhs.gov)
Accompaniment at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Conditions Report and Policy Recommendations
Published by Jesuit Refugee Service on September 12, 2023.
A situation report, mainly on conditions for asylum seekers, from El Paso and Ciudad Juárez.
U.S. And Mexico Must End Policies That Expose Migrants to Death and Danger
Published by WOLA on March 29, 2023.
A response to the March 27, 2023 tragedy in a migrant detention facility in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
The State of Human Rights at the U.S. – Mexico Border
Published by the Border Network for Human Rights on February 22, 2022.
The latest of a series of “abuse documentation” reports with troubling findings about the behavior of some U.S. border law enforcement personnel in the El Paso sector, especially CBP officers working at ports of entry.
CBP’s Vehicle Pursuit Policy and Border Patrol’s Deadly Pursuit of a Vehicle on August 3, 2021 near Las Cruces, New Mexico
Calls for reform of CBP’s vehicle pursuit policy after another in a long string of crashes, this one in New Mexico, kills two people.
The El Paso Experiment: A Public Defender’s Lonely Fight Against Family Separation
Published by The Intercept on November 1, 2020.
A public defender in El Paso ran up against the Trump administration’s early rollout of its family separation policy.
‘We sent 500 tests. They don’t answer calls’: Inside ICE’s coronavirus testing disaster
Published by Reveal on September 10, 2020.
ICE repeatedly rebuffed New Mexico state health officials’ offers to help control a worsening outbreak of COVID-19 at its Otero County Processing Center.
I Was a U.S. Diplomat. Customs and Border Protection Only Cared That I Was Black.
Published by Politico on August 30, 2020.
Tianna Spears, a diplomat assigned to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, recounts the difficulty she consistently experienced re-entering the United States, as an African-American person, through CBP’s ports of entry.
Devastated by multiple tragedies, a border city seeks a bridge to the future
Published by The Boston Globe on August 1, 2020.
A look at El Paso and Ciudad Juárez a year after a gunman’s rampage at an El Paso Walmart.
Denied, Deported And Abandoned — Assault On U.S. Asylum
Published by Texas Public Radio on July 24, 2020.
An audio report and accompanying text, reported from the Rio Grande Valley, El Paso, and Mexico City, about the impact of the Trump administration’s virtual ending of the right to asylum at the border during the pandemic.
Podcast: Practicing Asylum Law in El Paso: “MPP is just—it’s utterly insane”
Podcast: A Week on the Border: Observing the Consequences of Remain in Mexico
Published by WOLA on January 27, 2020.
A conversation with WOLA’s Adam Isacson during a mid-January visit to El Paso and Ciudad Juárez.
“I Can’t Believe What’s Happening—What We’re Becoming”: A memo from El Paso and Ciudad Juárez
Published by WOLA on December 19, 2019.
A memo reporting back from a field visit to El Paso and Ciudad Juárez.