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A dog in El Paso, Texas, who went missing recently embarked on a long journey that ended in a familiar place.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott met President Joe Biden at the El Paso Airport and handed him a scathing letter regarding the growing border crisis. Biden landed in El Paso for a brief visit before heading to Mexico City.

Funcionarios de migración mexicanos enviaron a más de 200 agentes a Ciudad Juárez, dos días antes de que el presidente de los Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, visitara El Paso para “aprender” sobre la crisis migratoria actual. Los funcionarios de inmigración mexicanos llegaron en un momento en que miles de migrantes esperan en Ciudad Juárez para cruzar a Texas. Sin embargo, el grupo “especial” solo habría participado en eventos de prensa frente a las cámaras y no habría estado en la zona ayudando a los migrantes.

Mexican immigration officials sent more than 200 agents to Ciudad Juarez, two days before U.S. President Joe Biden is set to visit El Paso, to “learn” about the current immigration crisis. The Mexican immigration officials arrived at a time when thousands of migrants await in Ciudad Juarez to cross into Texas. However, the “special” group had only made appearances in front of cameras and had not been out in the field actually helping migrants.

President Joe Biden makes his first-ever visit to the Texas-Mexico border on Sunday. However, circumstances in El Paso are vastly different this week compared to the humanitarian disaster just weeks earlier.

North Carolina State University radio commentator Gary Hahn was suspended Friday for his on-air comments about “illegal aliens” in El Paso, Texas.

A radio announcer for the North Carolina State football team is suspended indefinitely after using the phrase “illegal aliens” during a score update about the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl game in El Paso. The City of El Paso is currently immersed in a mass migration crisis that left migrants sleeping on city streets during freezing weather conditions over the Christmas weekend.

The State of Texas expanded its use of shipping containers to aid in securing the border in El Paso by placing nearly a dozen containers along the Rio Grande in addition to more than a mile of razor-wire fencing.

Three illegal aliens, all with prior criminal arrests in the sanctuary state of Colorado, are accused of murdering a 30-year-old man in El Paso County.

While most families across the country celebrated the extended Christmas holiday weekend, members of the Texas National Guard built more than two miles of razor-wire border fencing near El Paso. Texas Governor Greg Abbott deployed the Guardsmen under Operation Lone Star to build the barriers after the City of El Paso declared a disaster as migrants surged across the border.

Large groups of migrants woke up Christmas morning on the streets of El Paso as temperatures fell into the 20s. City officials placed buses near migrant encampments to serve as warming stations for those who either refused to go to shelters or were ineligible for federally funded shelters.

The Biden Administration blocked Venezuelan migrants without acceptable documentation from entering federally funded shelters in El Paso as temperatures fell to 18 degrees overnight Thursday. The government requires all migrants entering these shelters to have certain paperwork from Border Patrol.

Representative Veronica Escobar (D-TX) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “José Díaz-Balart Reports” that President Joe Biden should “absolutely” be at the U.S.-Mexico border as a surge of migrants is causing a crisis.

In advance of the life-threatening freeze expected through the Christmas weekend, El Paso officials are preparing to shelter up to 10,000 migrants being released by federal officials. Officials also expressed concern that a sudden end to Title 42 could cause an increase in demand for shelter space.

Migrants trying to find shelter along the Texas-Mexico border and officials are bracing for what is expected to be a life-endangering Arctic blast starting Thursday and continuing through the Christmas weekend.

Texas National Guard soldiers deployed this week to El Paso and began the placement of razor wire along a common crossing area. The wire is designed to deter migrants from crossing the Rio Grande from Juarez to El Paso.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the state’s Division of Emergency Management to bus hundreds of migrants from El Paso to New York City and Chicago Tuesday. The action came in response to a disaster declaration and a request for state assistance from the mayor of El Paso.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the deployment of 400 National Guardsmen to El Paso. They are ordered to provide additional security measures in the increasing humanitarian crisis where migrants are sleeping on the streets of El Paso in freezing conditions.

During an interview with NPR on Sunday aired on Monday’s “Morning Edition,” El Paso, TX City Manager Tommy Gonzalez stated that “Unless a lot of policy changes happen” on the border, then the numbers of people crossing the border “are

During an interview with NPR on Sunday aired on Monday’s “Morning Edition,” El Paso, TX City Manager Tommy Gonzalez stated if Title 42 is lifted, things will be the same “in terms of numbers” as the surge of Afghan refugees

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” El Paso, TX City Council Representative Claudia Rodriguez stated that even if Title 42 is extended, it’s too late because people are already coming to the border expecting that Title 42 will

El Paso Sector Border Patrol officials released more than 10,000 migrants in El Paso during the past week. Now, as temperatures fall below freezing, thousands are forced to camp on streets after shelters closed their doors due to overcrowding.

The mayor of El Paso declared a disaster “due to a humanitarian, security, and economic crisis resulting from a mass migration” through the city. The declaration comes as thousands of migrants continue to cross from Mexico into the city in advance of the end of the Title 42 protocol expected on Wednesday.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott called on the attorney general to open an investigation into non-government organizations or NGOs who may have assisted in migrant border crossings into the state. The move comes after record-setting large group crossings around El Paso over the weekend.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may open Fort Bliss, the United States Army post in New Mexico and Texas, in anticipation of tens of thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens arriving at the border as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Title 42 order ends in weeks.

Despite a recent Biden Administration policy to reduce the number of Venezuelan migrant crossings along the southwest border, shelters and federal detention facility overcrowding is forcing the new arrivals onto El Paso’s streets. Those with the financial means to travel freely are sent to a downtown commercial bus depot. Meanwhile, local officials have paused dedicated buses to Chicago and New York City until federal reimbursements are met.

President Joe Biden’s administration reportedly pressured El Paso, Texas, Mayor Oscar Leeser (D) not to declare a state of emergency over illegal immigration, even as thousands arrive in the small city every few days. 

Three illegal aliens, all linked to human smuggling, are charged with murdering a 28-year-old man in El Paso, Texas while a fourth is on the run in Mexico. 

During a discussion with CBS News National Correspondent Manuel Bojorquez aired on Monday’s broadcast of “CBS Evening News,” El Paso, TX Assistant Emergency Management Coordinator Tony Muro said that the number of migrants the city deals with is “going to

On Friday’s broadcast of ABC’s “World News Tonight,” and in a report released in Friday’s “World News This Week” podcast, ABC National Correspondent Mireya Villarreal said that the process to handle migrants touted by President Joe Biden clearly “isn’t working”

A recent surge in migrant crossings has resulted in the Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector occupying the number two spot in nationwide migrant apprehensions, according to a source within CBP. The source says Border Patrol agents encountered nearly 25,000 migrants so far this month. U.S. Representative Tony Gonzales (R-TX) says the situation is only getting worse.

On Friday’s “CNN Newsroom,” El Paso, TX Deputy City Manager Mario D’Agostino stated that either the flow of migrants needs to be stopped or redirected “more to the interior of the United States. We continue to release that flow right here

The surge of migrants moving west to the El Paso Border Patrol Sector led to the apprehension of approximately 30,000 in August, a source within U.S. Customs and Border Protection says. The trend overwhelmed the sector’s detention capacity, forcing agents to carry out street releases.

EAGLE PASS, Texas — An infant migrant died Thursday after Border Patrol agents pulled his lifeless body from the Rio Grande on Monday. His drowning death adds to the deaths of his three-year-old brother and a five-year-old girl in separate incidents on Monday.

Firefighters and Good Samaritans heroically saved a woman whose vehicle was submerged in a sinkhole in El Paso, Texas.

Federal officials seized parrots being smuggled across the border from Mexico into far West Texas. The five birds were packed in a shoe box.