first reported by Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cAnyone else to call?\u201d the airport\u2019s security manager texted to Mr. Rao.<\/p>\n
\u201cFBI?\u201d Mr. Rao answered.<\/p>\n
El Pasoans are accustomed to feeling overlooked. They occupy a liberal oasis in a deep red state. Nine hours west of Dallas, El Paso has a rich mix of cultures, making it more of a cultural sibling to Albuquerque than to Midland or Lubbock. And though the city of 680,000 has a respected university and safe neighborhoods, residents complain that it is often dismissed as a crime-ridden desert wasteland.<\/p>\n
At 12:13 a.m. local time, the El Paso airport announced the closing in a cryptic post on Instagram. Jim Dobrowolski, a father of two in a cozy middle-class El Paso neighborhood, found it after seeing a reference to the situation while browsing Reddit. Mr. Dobrowolski, who manages a dental practice, wondered if the United States might be at war with Mexico \u2014 or even under alien invasion. After scanning the local and national news and finding no answers, he briefly considered loading his wife and two young sons into their SUV and driving north to Albuquerque.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The implications were profound. Artificial joints that doctors needed for surgery were often not kept on hand, he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[12083,98959,98960,29871,3266,98957,17343,138,98965,140,1110,139,98962,504,46232,98958,98955,98964,34571,98956,98961,2558,3256,3253,98963],"class_list":["post-264288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-air-traffic-control","tag-airlines-and-airplanes","tag-customs-and-border-protection-us","tag-defense-department","tag-donald-j","tag-drones-pilotless-planes","tag-duffy","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-tex","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-international-airport","tag-el-paso-news","tag-escobar","tag-federal-aviation-administration","tag-johnson","tag-laser-light-amplification-by-stimulated-emission-of-radiation","tag-regulation-and-deregulation-of-industry","tag-renard-1966","tag-sean-p","tag-shutdowns-institutional","tag-transportation-department-us","tag-trump","tag-united-states-defense-and-military-forces","tag-united-states-politics-and-government","tag-veronica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264288","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=264288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}