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Border and Immigration Reporter for The El Paso Times. Previously based in Central America I Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism Fellow '23
The facility will officially open on August 17, ICE finally said.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing for the first 1,000 detainees at the ICE detention center on Fort Bliss land.
SCOOP: Louisiana officials are in talks with the Trump administration about opening a state-run immigration jail inside the State Penitentiary at Angola, people familiar with the plan tell me #lalege #lagov www.nola.com/news/politic...
Kristi Noem recently said she was having conversations with other Republican governors about opening facilities in their states modeled after "Alligator Alcatraz." But the potential immigration locku...
Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday asked the Texas Supreme Court to remove Houston Rep. Gene Wu, chair of the House Democratic Caucus, from office, an unprecedented escalation in Republicans’ efforts to resume business in the Legislature and advance new congressional maps.
Legal experts say it’s “inconsistent with the Texas Constitution” to argue that leaving the state to halt legislative action qualifies as abandoning an office.
🚨WHOA. According to @haleaziz.bsky.social, the Trump admin was actually going to implement the ICE "bounties" it has repeatedly said were false, offering $200 per arrest leading to a rapid deportation — and only walked the plan back after the New York Times got a copy of the memo.
Reupping this to the main feed about the fork in the road in 2015.
The China Threat narrative led the US to choose MAGA, which was really a path of mimetic desire and conflict mirroring, instead of the Occupy/Piketty narrative, which could have been a globalization-compatible path of renewal.
What's fascinating is that at the same time we also start to see the collective loss of confidence in the US model compared to China, ending up with us mirroring China now.
But it's expressed in its polar opposite, as what would really make America great again is a recommitment to redistribution.
I was the first (I think) to report the site of the location, which is just off of El Paso's Montana Avenue. It is a site the Trump administration had considered since at least 2018 for a detention facility, during his first admin.
President Donald Trump's proposed migrant deportation detention site at Fort Bliss is set to begin construction in the coming weeks.
I previously reported on the lawsuit against the Trump administration filed by a dozen congressional reps, including Veronica Escobar who represents El Paso over the blocking of oversight of such facilities.
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, has joined a lawsuit filed by a dozen Democrats against the Trump administration for blocking oversight visits
Here are the first areal photos of Trump's immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss, El Paso. The first detainees started arriving on Friday.
Here is my quick rundown of what we know about the site.
The El Paso Times has obtained the first aerial images of the Trump administration's new immigrant detention facility at Fort Bliss.
Why? Honestly why? Are they just trying to openly steal money?
EXCLUSIVE: Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, his first major action as interim NASA administrator.
This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.
My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab.
Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us.
It’s time to fight back.
