{"id":154513,"date":"2026-02-07T01:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/154513\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T01:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T01:19:07","slug":"abc-7-xtra-sunday-local-government-pushback-on-ice-detention-facilities-and-major-endowment-to-utep-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/154513\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC-7 Xtra Sunday &#8211; Local government pushback on ICE detention facilities and major endowment to UTEP engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; Federal immigration policy, enforcement and facilities have been in the national spotlight in recent months, with immigration officer\u00a0actions and how detentions ahead of deportations are handled in sharp focus.<\/p>\n<p>And more recently, there&#8217;s been\u00a0local government pushback on ICE and future facilities here in the Borderland.<\/p>\n<p>Both the City and County of El Paso taking action this past week\u00a0&#8211; considering courses of action to oppose new or expanded detention camps in the region and instructing staff to explore\u00a0the options available to them.<\/p>\n<p>So what will the next steps be &#8211; and what is needed or possible in the El Paso area?<\/p>\n<p>Join ABC-7 anchor Paul Cicala as he fills in for host Andrew J. Polk and discusses the local situation and efforts with District 8 City Rep. Chris Canales and El Paso GOP Chairman Michael Aboud.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, discussion on the major UTEP engineering endowment with donor Miguel Loya, local businessman and UTEP alumnus and Kenith Meissner, Dean of the newly re-named Miguel A. Loya College of Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in Sunday at 10:35 p.m., right after ABC-7 at 10 Weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; Federal immigration policy, enforcement and facilities have been in the national spotlight in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-154513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}