Rio Grande Borderlands

10/10/2026

10/03/2026

EL PASO — A judge on Friday blocked further border barrier construction in the Big Bend region, approving an environmental group’s motion for a preliminary injunction. At the end of Friday’s hearing, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone asked the courtroom to remain calm while she read her ord...

10/03/2026

A top immigrant-rights advocate made the claim during a hearing held by U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro in San Antonio on Friday.

09/29/2026

Rev. Canon Jaime Edwards-Acton felt the impact of ICE raids early and immediately when 14 of his congregants were arrested and held at Adelanto. "In my 30+ years of ministry, I have buried many people. It is one of the hardest and most sacred things a priest does. Ismael Ayala-Uribe was thirty-nine years old. Gabriel García-Avilés was fifty-six. They died in Adelanto, a facility that the private company GEO Corp. is paid by the head to operate, and most people in this state have never heard either name. We are walking ninety-six and a half miles, so those names are spoken somewhere other than a court filing – and because nearly two thousand people are still inside who have not died, and whose lives are still ours to fight for."

09/29/2026

In El Paso, tx

09/29/2026

09/29/2026

A nurse treated Bay Area residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Trump administration made her disappear.

09/27/2026

Tapachula, five miles from Mexico’s border with Guatemala, has become a principal destination for the world’s deportees. And in a cruel twist, even Mexicans expelled from the United States have found themselves there, regrouping after being deported—not home to Mexico—but first to Central Am...