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Unacceptable : Border Patrol holding hundreds of unaccompanied migrant children in El Paso Lauren Villagran, El Paso Times
White House immigration bill attempts to address cause of migration by Central Americans
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Hundreds of unaccompanied migrant children were being held this week in El Paso Border Patrol facilities, as border agents worked to quickly process them and government shelters struggled to reactivate dormant capacity.
Although the number of children in temporary Border Patrol custody can fluctuate by the hour, between 800 and 1,000 children were being held this week many for more than two days at a time according to two federal employees who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
Asylum seekers at US-Mexico border see hope in Biden administration immigration changes Lauren Villagran, El Paso Times
Migrants react to Biden halting border wall
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EL PASO, Texas Hope among asylum seekers bloomed in Mexican border cities Thursday after President Joe Biden s administration halted the controversial Remain in Mexico program and said it would review asylum policies. The truth is that they are now filled with hope, said Miguel Gonzalez, who runs the Pasos de Fe shelter in Juárez, Mexico, where migrant families enrolled in the program have been living for months. They hear that there will be opportunities, or at least they hope there will be.
A Mexican man who was shot in the back while protecting his wife and daughter during the Walmart mass shooting is finally home.
Mario De Alba who was the last hospitalized survivor of the Aug. 3, 2019, attack spent six months in El Paso hospitals before being released in February. He returned to Chihuahua City with his family only to relapse and be hospitalized again 10 days later.
This summer came a final surgery, his sister Cristina De Alba said.
“The doctors told us, ‘We guarantee that with this surgery you are going to leave here walking and eating,” she said. “They did it and, thank God, it worked.”