Asylum-seekers being flown from the Rio Grande Valley to El Paso due to limited capacity are being expelled to Mexico by CBP, according to the Dallas Morning News. Exact numbers are unclear, but at least 50 migrants have been expelled into Juarez.
Tag: El Paso
March 9, 2021
El Paso will begin receiving two flights per day, each carrying 135 migrants from the Rio Grande Valley sector. The migrants will be processed in El Paso and stay at shelters until arrangements are made for them to connect with family in the United States.
February 19, 2021
Some Remain in Mexico enrollees are being allowed into the United States as of Friday, February 19, first at the San Diego port of entry and later through Brownsville and El Paso as well. Processing will be slow at first, with only a few hundred entering per day.
February 15, 2021
Two migrants sustained serious injuries after falling from the border wall near New Mexico and were expelled to Mexico instead of receiving medical attention, despite not being able to stand on their own.
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.
July 8, 2020

Caption: “Criminals don’t see vehicles the way you do. They see door panels, seats, gas tanks, tires & everything in between as an opportunity to hide their illicit items. @CBP’s committed to detecting their contraband & putting the brakes on criminal organizations.”
June 28, 2020

Caption: “@CBP has completed construction of more than 220 miles of new border wall system.”
June 15, 2020


Caption: “USBP Horse Patrol & ground agents apprehended 2 narcotics smugglers with 62.6 lbs. of marijuana, valued at $50,808, strapped to their backs.”
June 1, 2020

Caption: “Extremely proud of our #ElPaso Sector #USBP Special Ops & Mobile Response agents for quickly responding yesterday to assist @EPPolice & @TxDPSWest with unruly protestors.”
The Moving Border: Part One, The North
Audio published by National Public Radio’s Latino USA on May 20, 2020.
This report from Ciudad Juárez looks at the Trump administration’s dismantling of asylum and the Mexican government’s surprisingly robust cooperation with it.
May 14, 2020

“Border Patrol Agents in Clint, TX use an sUAS [drone] as a force multiplier as 7 subjects attempt an illegal entry by using a ladder to climb the border wall. Agents arrested 2 while the others ran back into Mexico.”
Podcast: Practicing Asylum Law in El Paso: “MPP is just—it’s utterly insane”

Published by WOLA on May 7, 2020.
An interview with El Paso-based asylum lawyer Taylor Levy.
May 6, 2020

“Alamogordo #BPAs at the HWY70 checkpoint stopped a smuggling attempt by utilizing a license plate reader and X-ray technology to locate a subject hidden in a horse trailer.”
March 11, 2020
- In the El Paso sector, CBP announces the death of a pregnant 19-year-old woman from Guatemala, Miriam Estefany Girón Luna, after she fell from the border barrier near Clint, Texas. CBP blames human smugglers from Mexico for “encouraging her” to climb the barrier. Tekandi Paniagua, a Guatemalan consular official based in Texas, instead indicates the shifting migration dynamics at the border due to the asylum roadblocks implemented by the U.S. government, as migrants cross the border using far more dangerous methods out of desperation.
March 6, 2020
- Senior CBP officials announce they are sending 80 soldiers to El Paso, Texas, and 80 to San Diego, California, in response to the recent court ruling preventing the government from enforcing the Remain in Mexico program after March 11. While sent to provide support to officers at official ports of entry, these 160 soldiers are not expected to conduct immigration processing or enforcement.
February 24, 2020
- National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd announces that the FBI is investigating the disappearance of approximately $500,000 from the union’s El Paso branch. Forensic auditors found that $352,389 was misappropriated while another $150,035 was not properly paid to the IRS in tax money. Rumors of a long-running embezzlement scheme had been circulating through the ranks of CBP since 2018.