Detainees seeks court oversight of healthcare and living conditions at Camp East Montana
A federal judge is being asked to place an El Paso immigrant detention center under sweeping oversight after…
Podcast: ICE arrests surge in El Paso. Who’s being impacted?
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Cuban man’s year in ICE custody in El Paso tests prolonged detention limits
Antonio Frometa Ascón has yet to hold his first granddaughter, who was born last month as he marked…
ICE arrests surge in the El Paso region. Families are feeling the impact.
Sonia can still hear her daughter’s frightened voice crying out over the cellphone speaker, “What do I do?!…
Trump administration scraps planned ICE detention center far East El Paso County warehouses
The Trump administration is scrapping plans to convert a nearly 1 million square-foot Socorro warehouse complex into an…
ICE extends Camp East Montana contract through 2027
By Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to keep one of its…
Catholic churches revive grassroots organizing in Socorro to fight ICE detention center
SOCORRO, Texas – In the 1980s, Maria Estella Padilla went door to door after Mass, organizing house meetings…
As ICE arrests surge in El Paso, children are being separated from parents
Eleven-year-old J.R.C. distinctly remembers federal immigration agents putting on gloves before they arrested his father outside their South-Central…
Chickenpox exposures triggered ICE Camp East Montana quarantine
Camp East Montana, an immigrant detention center in East El Paso, had an unannounced quarantine this month after…
Report: ICE detainees at Camp East Montana report frequent beatings and other human rights abuses
By Michael Biesecker / The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Dozens of people held at a sprawling Immigration and…
‘Alias Ceviche’: Deported Peruvian journalist documents ICE detention journey
As a journalist, it’s been instinct for Ricardo Quintana Chávez to record his surroundings – writing in his…
El Paso ICE facility overdoses raise questions; cooling centers open countywide
This is your weekly news roundup, which takes a quick look at some developments in government, politics, education,…