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Deal will let parents of graduating students from Mexico attend UTEP commencement Lauren Villagran, El Paso Times © Mark Lambie / El Paso Times UTEP students are sillhouetted as they enter the Don Haskins Center for Spring Commencement Saturday. The University of Texas at El Paso has reached an agreement with border authorities that will allow Mexican parents of graduating students to cross the border to attend commencement. The U.S.-Mexico border has been closed to most Me...

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 Replay Video UP NEXT 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 childr...

The arrival of hundreds of unaccompanied youth at the El Paso border is straining capacity at Border Patrol center and government shelters

Mexican soldiers rescue toddler abandoned in Rio Grande near Del Rio, Texas Associated Press, El Paso Times Watch a Border Patrol agent describe the process apprehending those who illegally cross UP NEXT MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican soldiers and immigration agents rescued a 2-year-old girl from Chile after she apparently fell into the Rio Grande and the adults who were with her left her and crossed the river into the United States, officials said Sunday.  © Mark Lambie / El ...

Boutique Air to offer daily flights from El Paso to Carlsbad and Albuquerque Vic Kolenc, El Paso Times A small San Francisco airline will begin daily flight service Tuesday for El Paso, Carlsbad and Albuquerque. Boutique Air, which operates 33, eight-seat turboprop airplanes, decided to start service to El Paso because of requests from people in Carlsbad, where it’s provided service since 2015 under the federally subsidized Essential Air Service Program, said Brian Kondrad, B...

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 Replay Video UP NEXT EL PASO, Texas — Hope among asylum seekers bloomed in Mexican border cities Thursday after President Joe Bidens 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,...

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 guaran...

“Historically with a vaccine, the terrible (serious adverse events) that we’re always worried about actually present themselves in a matter of weeks,” Djavaherian, an ER doctor who leads the pandemic response at Carbon Health, a national primary and urgent care provider. “We’re not seeing that type of spike ... in the weeks we see people taking the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.” Experts say Americans should feel confident in the vaccines now based on the data. The U.S Food and Drug Ad...

Long-term care industry leaders hopeful as COVID-19 vaccinations get underway Long-term care residents and staff will be among the first to receive the vaccination. The long-term care community has been especially hard hit by the pandemic. Author: Alex Rozier (WFAA) Updated: 1:50 PM CST December 14, 2020 As the COVID-19 vaccine arrives in America, leaders in long-term care are hopeful it will help their communities hit hard by the pandemic. Long-term care residen...

USA TODAY As the USA approaches the once-unthinkable threshold of 300,000 COVID-19 deaths Sunday, experts fear the country is hurtling nonstop toward the next milestone of surpassing the total of American fatalities in World War II – even as vaccines are on the way. A weeks-long surge in coronavirus transmission, leading to an average of more than 210,000 new infections and nearly 2,500 deaths a day this month, has public health experts considering the next major round number practically ine...