Latinos Continue To Occupy El Paso

By Melissa del Bosque El Paso has been doing its part in representing the Occupy Wall Street movement. At least 60 people were camped out at San Jacinto Plaza in […]

By Rebecca Soto El Paso, Texas — Congressman Silvestre Reyes, of the 16th District in Texas, launched his campaign in El Paso over the weekend, on November 11 with a […]

About 18 years ago then-El Paso Border Patrol Sector Chief Silvestre Reyes (the El Paso Congressman since 1996), started an operation to deter immigration that came to be called Operation Hold […]

By Melissa del Bosque On Monday, July 25, there was a riot in the Cereso state prison in Juarez and 17 people were killed. The prison is divided between the […]

By Melissa del Bosque It was an early morning in mid-May. Norberto Velez, 55, and his son Norangel, 32, were driving through ranchland in far West Texas. They were looking […]

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By Beatriz Terrazas IN 2008, WHEN I VISITED MY MOTHER IN EL PASO, she pouted like a toddler who has been told a lie and said: “Usted me dijo que íbamos […]

Norberto Velez, 56, and his son Norangel Velez were driving around looking for land to buy outside of El Paso, Texas Wednesday when a wrong turn put them face-to-face with a […]

I’m struggling to find a point to President Obama’s visit to El Paso. It sounded more like a stump than a policy speech, but I think most of that has […]

The buzz is that President Obama will kick-start a push for comprehensive immigration reform during his trip to El Paso, Texas. In the past weeks he’s invited three separate groups […]