Month: June 2018

Cole Beasley doesn’t need a lot of prodding to bring up how much he thinks outsiders will overlook Dallas receivers now that the Cowboys have moved on from Dez Bryant. The new dean of the group sees opportunity rather than uncertainty at a position that lacks a big name, and the history of big production

The little girl wearing pink party shoes topped with bows smiled from her seat in a Los Angeles immigration courtroom. The 7-year-old is happy now that she is worlds away from the violence in her native El Salvador. Gang gunfire once forced her to hit the floor inside her home. She fled Central America last

Police records show Santa Fe High School received nine threats in the months leading up to the mass shooting last month that left 10 people dead and 13 injured. Santa Fe Independent School District Police Chief Walter Braun says none of the threats was related to the May 18 massacre. Records obtained by the Houston

More than 100 workers were arrested at an Ohio meatpacking plant by federal agents following a yearlong immigration investigation, the second large-scale raid within the state in the past two weeks. The investigation focused on whether the company knowingly hired people who are in the country illegally and used fake identities belonging to U.S. citizens

Speaker Paul Ryan is pushing ahead with votes on rival House GOP immigration bills, but neither appears to have enough support for passage, forcing the Trump administration to consider executive action to stem the crisis of family separations at the border. President Donald Trump has said he’s “1,000 percent” behind both GOP bills, but restive

Isaiah R. O’Kelley, 21, has been charged with attempted first-degree murder after his suspected involvement in an alleged shooting off Hoagland Road in Las Cruces last Friday. He is also charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Las Cruces Police responded to a report of shots fired on Friday, June 15th, just after 11

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has drafted an executive action for President Donald Trump that would direct her department to keep families together after they are detained crossing the border illegally. She was at the White House where Trump told reporters he would be “signing something” shortly. The effort to end what has become a

More than 600 members of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ church have denounced him over the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy that has led to children being separated from their parents at the border. Members of the United Methodist Church from across the country signed a letter Monday accusing Sessions of child abuse, immorality and

Police investigators with the Gang Unit have arrested three men in connection to an assault caught on video in Far East El Paso. The video went viral after it was posted on social meda. Police said the assault happened at the El Agave Azul Bar at 1441 N. Zaragosa the evening of June 4, 2018.

Today is the first anniversary of the deadly 25-vehicle pileup near Lordsburg, New Mexico. Six people, including a man and his adult daughter from El Paso, were killed during the crashes. The youngest victim was a baby from Phoenix. Authorities said low visibility during a severe dust storm caused the pileup on I-10. It prompted

Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned. Lawyers and medical providers who have visited the Rio Grande Valley shelters described play rooms of crying preschool-age children in

On Wednesday morning the superintendents of area school districts will gather at the Tornillo Port of Entry in support of family unification on the border. The news conference is set to begin at 10 a.m. In a statement, district officials said the superintendents want to show a front to support the well-being of immigrant children

A lack of fire hydrants near the scene of a fire inhibited fire crews from battling a late-night blaze in Canutillo. Crews from West Valley and Anthony Fire Departments responded to the fire off of Campos Street Tuesday night. WVFD’s Facebook post shows what appear to be a storage center on fire. Authorities described the

Twenty-one attorneys general across the United States – led by New Mexico’s Hector Balderas – signed a letter asking the federal government to stop enforcing the ‘zero-tolerance’ policy, which has the effect of separating families. “There is a separation happening without any of the procedural effects that are placed in law by not only state

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in East El Paso, marching against family separation at the border. Protesters marched from Edgemere Park to a Homeland Security facility housing an immigration detention center near Hawkins and Montana. The protest started at 9 a.m. when hundreds of protesters, immigration advocates and nurses gathered to rally against

Federal authorities say the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued a diner in Farmington, New Mexico for subjecting a Muslim woman to religious discrimination by refusing to let her wear a head scarf. Elizabeth Cadle, director of the agency’s five-state district office in Phoenix, said Tuesday the commission sued the Blue Moon Diner for

Authorities say a traffic stop prompted by an unworn seat belt led them to about 60 pounds of methamphetamine in a vehicle headed for North Carolina. Federal court records filed Monday in Amarillo show three people have been charged after the weekend traffic stop in the Texas Panhandle. The documents say authorities found the methamphetamine

The Global Entry Program, one of four U.S. Customs and Border Protection “Trusted Travelers Programs” is now accepting applications. The program offers faster entry into the US for pre-approved, low risk travelers. Approval in as little as four weeks allows travelers to skip the long customs lines at the airport as well as slow travel

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Mexico says a Texas man has pleaded guilty to assaulting Drug Enforcement Administration officers in Albuquerque. The 24-year-old Kingsley Ufembou Akendeu, of Lubbock, Texas, entered his plea Tuesday in federal court in Albuquerque. Akendeu entered the guilty plea under a plea agreement recommending a prison sentence of up to

A Las Cruces man has filed a lawsuit against Our Lady of Health Parish and the Diocese of El Paso, alleging sexual abuse from a priest 40 years ago. “No child should ever be subjected to any kind of abuse, much less, from a trusted individual who received such power within the church,” said the

A Customs and Border Protection runs out of space to detain Central American migrants seeking asylum in the US, more and more migrants are turning to churches and other organizations for help. One of those groups is the St. Ignatius Catholic Church, located in the Segundo Barrio area. The church will be taking in a

The City of El Paso Department of Public Health has been notified that one of several mosquito pools collected here have tested positive for West Nile Virus. The Vector Control Program with the Environmental Services Department has been setting traps this season since May. The mosquito pool that tested positive was located in the central

The call came at mealtime – an anonymous threat demanding $5,000 or her son’s life. So Blanca Orantes-Lopez, her 8-year-old boy and his father packed up and left the Pacific surfing town of Puerto La Libertad in El Salvador and headed for the United States. Two months later, she sits in a federal prison south

Authorities say five people have been charged in a “smuggling scheme” following a deadly crash involving an SUV fleeing Border Patrol agents and sheriff’s deputies in South Texas. In Del Rio Tuesday, Federal prosecutors announced the charges in connection to the crash that killed at least five people on Sunday, June 17, 2018. U.S. Border

The federal government has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle a lawsuit by a former U.S. Border Patrol agent who said his assignment in Texas triggered post-traumatic stress disorder from his war service. Anthony Gazvoda wanted a transfer to the U.S.-Canada border in northern Michigan, his native state, but his request was rejected. He sued

Ted Cruz has staged a dramatic about-face on the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policies, laying bare how politically damaging the issue of separating children from parents accused of crossing the border illegally is becoming for Republicans facing voters this fall. The Texas senator, who has become a frequent ally of President Donald Trump, initially

A scam claiming to be from the El Paso Electric Company is targeting businesses in El Paso. Business owners are told their electricity will be shut off unless they pay a certain amount immediately. The scammers tell business owners to call the company’s business department for further instruction. Upon calling, the actual recording from the

Senate Republican leaders say they are supporting a plan to detain immigrant families in custody together to avoid separating children from parents at the border. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters Tuesday that all Senate Republicans are supporting the plan. He said he’s reaching out to Democrats for bipartisan backing, since the proposal would

Police arrested and charged the woman suspected in the May 22, 2018 theft of a UPS package from a doorstep. The woman has been charged along with her boyfriend, who allegedly acted as her getaway driver, police said. Allise Brittany Garcia, 29, and Devon W. Sellers, 30, both of the 3200 block of Missouri Avenue,

President Donald Trump is asserting he has only two options on immigration: Separating migrant children from their parents at the border or simply implementing an “open borders” policy. Trump is discussing immigration during remarks in front of the National Federation of Independent Business’s 75th anniversary celebration. He says he’s requesting a “third option” from Congress