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Biden’s border visit will showcase a city strained by migration

Joe Biden’s choice of El Paso, Texas, as the site of his first presidential visit to the U.S.-Mexico border puts a spotlight on a city that has struggled to deal with a four-fold surge in the number of migrants on its streets.

Tribune News Service

U.S., Mexican immigration officials to meet ahead of Biden visit

U.S. and Mexican immigration officials are set to meet in El Paso Saturday, the day before U.S. President Joe Biden's first visit to the border since taking office, Mexico's immigration institute said Friday.

Reuters

Border bishop takes lead role in Catholic migrant ministry

Mark Seitz of El Paso is the first bishop from a state along the Mexico border to head the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ migration committee in at least 20 years

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Ahead of El Paso visit, Biden says U.S. will allow 30,000 migrants from four countries to enter monthly

Migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela will be allowed entry and given work permits. The administration will also expand the use of Title 42 to expel more migrants to Mexico.

The Texas Tribune

Biden’s first border visit will be in El Paso, Texas, on Sunday

WASHINGTON — Two years after taking office, President Joe Biden will make his first U.S.-Mexico border visit on Sunday with a stop in El Paso, where a massive influx of migrants has overwhelmed local shelters.

Tribune News Service

Biden to visit the El Paso area over border issues

It's a public — and perilous — step toward addressing an immediate humanitarian emergency.

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Gang leader freed in Mexico prison attack that killed 17

Mexican authorities have raised the death toll from an attack on a state prison in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas to 17

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14 killed in attack on Mexican border prison

Ten guards and four inmates were killed early Sunday when gunmen in armored vehicles attacked a state prison in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas

The Independent UK

Migrant shelters try to help traumatized assault survivors

Growing numbers of migrants suffer violence that amounts to torture on their journeys

The Independent UK

The future of migrants in El Paso remains uncertain as border restrictions continue

Migrants have traveled hundreds, if not thousands, of miles to the Mexican border in a search of a better life. Many are turning themselves over to U.S. border authorities and seeking asylum.

WEKU

An old nemesis dooms Dorian Thompson-Robinson and UCLA in Sun Bowl loss

EL PASO, Texas — For a few forlorn minutes, it appeared the final image of Dorian Thompson-Robinson in a UCLA uniform would be him walking slowly off the field and into a tunnel, his left arm draped around the shoulder of a trainer.

Los Angeles Times

Pitt earns classic comeback Sun Bowl win over No. 18 UCLA thanks to late-game heroics

EL PASO, Texas — Down a pair of scores in the second half against a ranked opponent, Pat Narduzzi’s team had every reason to mail it in. Down by a single point with just 34 seconds remaining, the Panthers once again could’ve easily done the same.

Tribune News Service

Sun Bowl: Pittsburgh vs. UCLA, live stream, TV channel, time, how to watch

The Pittsburgh Panthers will meet the #18 UCLA Bruins in the Sun Bowl on Friday afternoon in El Paso, Texas.

USA Today Sports Media Group

How Chip Kelly and Dorian Thompson-Robinson's mutual trust elevated UCLA

EL PASO, Texas — It would have been easy to give up on the young quarterback.

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UCLA safety Stephan Blaylock will try to make his final game something special

EL PASO, Texas — Playing in every game of the Chip Kelly era means that Stephan Blaylock can tell you some things about perseverance.

Reuters

Slipping over Mexico border, migrants get the jump on U.S. court ruling

Even before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday opted to keep in place a measure aimed at deterring border crossings, hundreds of migrants in northern Mexico were taking matters into their own hands to slip into the United States.

Los Angeles Times

Asylum seekers are gathering at the US-Mexico border. This is why

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The first time Mari Marin Bastidas tried to claim asylum at the U.S. border, she was turned away by authorities who said a policy instituted to slow the spread of COVID-19 meant her case would not even get a hearing.

Al Jazeera

Migrants face freezing Christmas at US-Mexico border

Migrants almost certain to spend Christmas in crowded shelters or on streets of Mexican border towns amid winter storm.

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The Independent UK

Stuck at the border, migrants find a little Christmas cheer

Tens of thousands of migrants who fled violence and poverty will spend Christmas in crowded shelters or on the dangerous streets of Mexican border towns

WEKU

Migrants warmed by the community as freezing temperatures linger in El Paso

As twinkling Christmas lights cast a warm glow in downtown El Paso, thousands of migrants' search for shelter resonates deeply in the predominantly Catholic border city.

Reuters

'Where else can I go?': Migrants face freezing Christmas at U.S.-Mexico border

Hundreds of migrants prepared to camp in the cold at Mexico's northern border over Christmas, hoping for a swift reversal in U.S. migration restrictions as they endure the bite of a winter storm ravaging the United States.

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El Paso scrambles to help migrants in Christmas border crisis

The arctic front is catching some migrants off guard.

Tribune News Service

Migrants in El Paso, Texas, face arctic chill as residents try to provide warmth of Christmas

EL PASO, Texas — In this deeply Catholic city, people are keenly aware of the meaning of Christmas, especially the biblical story reenacted in the posadas, or inns, where Mary and Joseph went futilely searching for somewhere to spend the night in Bethlehem.

WEKU

El Paso tries to house many migrants in freezing weather – but some don't qualify

El Paso has scrambled to move migrants off the streets and into shelters as temperatures plummet below freezing, but federal law dictates which migrants can stay inside city facilities.

The Independent UK

Migrants near US border face cold wait for key asylum ruling

Hundreds of migrants are gathered in unusually frigid cold temperatures along the Mexican-U.S. border near El Paso, Texas, awaiting a U.S. Supreme Court decision on whether and when to lift pandemic-era restrictions that prevent many from seeking asylum

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