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Migrants amass along US-Mexico border as COVID-era restrictions near end

U.S. border agents in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday urged hundreds of migrants amassing on city streets to surrender to authorities as illegal crossings rose in the run-up to the end of COVID-19 border restrictions known as Title 42 later this week.

Reuters

Gov. Greg Abbott focuses on border security in first address since Allen and Brownsville tragedies

Abbott announced the deployment of new “Texas Tactical Border Force” units to El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley on Monday and Tuesday.

The Texas Tribune

'Risk it all': Migrant surge as US prepares for Title 42 end

A recent surge of migrants in the Brownsville, Texas, area of the U.S.-Mexico border is highlighting immigration challenges as the U.S. prepares for the end of a policy linked to the coronavirus pandemic that allowed it to quickly expel many migrants

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Progressive causes lose big in San Antonio and El Paso charter elections

San Antonio voters rejected by wide margins an effort to decriminalize abortion and require police to issue citations rather than make arrests for some nonviolent offenses. In El Paso, an effort to wean the city from fossil fuels fared similarly poorly.

The Texas Tribune

As U.S. prepares to end rapid expulsions of migrants, a Venezuelan family decides to risk crossing the border

A Venezuelan couple with two children waited in Mexico for weeks for a chance to claim asylum. They decided to cross the border after a relative died in a detention center fire and other family members successfully made it across.

The Texas Tribune

Texas likely will spend billions fixing its water systems. Will it reach these forgotten colonias?

An estimated 500,000 people live in thousands of colonias along the Texas-Mexico border. Largely built between the 1950s and 1980s, these communities have been promised water — but it has never come.

The Texas Tribune

As Title 42 comes to an end, El Paso declares state of emergency

El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser said asylum-seekers are camping out on the sidewalks and staying at shelters in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, under the false notion that they will be allowed to enter the U.S. once Title 42 expires.

The Texas Tribune

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Abortion, marijuana decriminalization, the climate, and law enforcement featured on local ballots in Texas on May 6

Ballotpedia is covering 47 ballot measures in seven counties in Texas on May 6. Five of the 47 are citizen initiatives, and the remaining 42 were referred to the ballot by a vote of a local governing board, such as a county board or city council.

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Watch An Enduro Champ Gymkhana His Africa Twin Down A Volcano

Enduro ace Kirian Mirabet takes on the La Palma volcano, as well as the streets of the nearby city of El Paso in the Canary Islands, all on his Africa Twin.

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Foo Fighters add six more headline shows to ever-growing list of 2023 dates

Late Tahoe! Salt Lake City! El Paso! And more! The Foo Fighters are coming to you later this year

Metal Hammer

This game about 'confronting relationship trauma' perfectly illustrates why it's a bad idea to date Draculae, lord of the vampires

Hands-on with El Paso, Elsewhere, a Max Payne-inspired game from the maker of Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator.

PC Gamer

Virtual wall: how the US plans to boost surveillance at the southern border

AI-enhanced cameras can detect ‘objects of interest’ miles away, which critics say will drive migrants deeper into dangerous desert

The Guardian - US

Survivor of Mexico detention fire and his family cross into U.S.

After her husband survived a fire which killed dozens of migrants at a detention center in northern Mexico, Venezuelan Viangly Infante crossed into the United States on Saturday, in search of new opportunities for her three children.

Reuters

Over 1,000 migrants, angered by asylum policies, rush to U.S.-Mexico border

More than a thousand migrants in northern Mexico surrendered to U.S. border authorities, frustrated by recent asylum policies, and shaken by a fire at a nearby migrant detention center that killed dozens this week.

Reuters

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Inside horror immigration centre fire that killed 39 as ‘guards REFUSED to open door’

The fire at the detention centre of Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM) in Ciudad Juarez, near the US-Mexico border and El Paso, Texas, reportedly started during a riot against deportations

The Texas Tribune

Fire at migrant center in Mexico near El Paso kills at least 39

Mexico’s president said the fire started in the Ciudad Juárez center when migrants learned they would be deported and set fire to mattresses in protest. Twenty-nine injured migrants were sent to local hospitals.

The Texas Tribune

El Paso charter fight tests whether a Texas city will move away from fossil fuels

As global efforts to combat climate change falter, climate activists have turned to local initiatives to rein in carbon emissions. A May vote on a city charter amendment has thrust El Paso into the fray.

Reuters

U.S. flies migrants caught at Canada border to Texas in deterrence effort

U.S. authorities have been flying migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Canada border to Texas as part of a deterrence effort to tackle a rise in crossings, according to authorities, flight records and a Reuters witness.

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Biden issues first veto of his presidency

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Voters in El Paso, Texas, to decide on a charter amendment to require the city to consider climate change

El Paso voters will vote on a charter amendment, titled Proposition K, to declare “[reducing] the city’s contribution to climate change” and “[advancing] the cause of climate justice” of paramount importance on May 6, 2023.

The Texas Tribune

Biden designates Castner Range in El Paso a national monument

At a Tuesday summit, the president also declared Avi Kwa Ame, 500,000 acres of land in Nevada considered sacred to Native tribes, a national monument.

The Guardian - US

US Customs and Border Protection closes bridge to Juárez after rumor causes migrant rush

Hundreds of migrants tried to race across the Paso del Norte bridge to El Paso after false internet post said the border was open

The Independent UK

US repels migrants as asylum app frustration grows in Mexico

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman says a large number of migrants in Mexico who tried to push their way into the United States were prevented from crossing a bridge leading to El Paso, Texas, from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

The Guardian - US

Texas youth organizers take aim at the biggest oil field in the US

Proposed El Paso climate charter seeks to prohibit use of city water for extraction projects including those in Permian Basin

The Independent UK

Teen faces murder charge in shooting during Texas mall melee

Police in El Paso, Texas, say a 16-year-old boy who fatally shot a 17-year-old boy and wounded two other people during a fight at a mall faces a murder charge and three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon

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