About two months after dropping out of the 2020 presidential race, Beto O’Rourke formed a new PAC “to boost Texas Democrats in the 2020 elections.” The PAC’s purpose is “registering Texans to vote.” [1] The PAC was formed on December 13, 2019, when Beto O’Rourke filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) forming Powered […]
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El Paso Immigration Legacy: 600 Separated Children And Shoeless Haitians
The Biden administration announced a series of executive orders this week addressing immigration reform. One of them is a task force to help reunite immigrant children with their parents after they were separated under Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy. There remain about 545 children whose parents have not been found. Some of the almost 600 immigrant […]
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Will Biden’s Immigration Reform Be Adopted?
The last time undocumented immigrants living in America were offered a pathway to citizenship was under a Republican president, Ronald Reagan. Now, not only do the Republicans support Donald J. Trump, who publicly hates immigrants, but the Republicans are now poised to derail Biden’s ambitious immigration reform package. Since Reagan’s 1986 legalization legislation, there have […]
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Almost 500 UMC Staff Decline Vaccine
Information requested by El Paso Politics under the Texas Public Information Act shows that a significant number of University Medical Center of El Paso (UMC) employees have declined the Coronavirus vaccine. There have been several reports of healthcare workers declining to be vaccinated across the country. According to the Los Angeles Times, hospitals have reported […]
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The County Argues Unfair Competition By Releasing Public Documents
On January 12, 2021, El Paso Politics submitted an open records request to the county judge and the county commissioners asking for any documents related to the U.S. Marshals Service contract under which the county jails federal prisoners, most of which are immigrants and many of them asylum seekers. As we reported on January 25, […]
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El Paso Central To Juarez Fraud
In July 2020, former Chihuahua governor, César Duarte was arrested in Miami on a fugitive warrant issued by México. Duarte, who was governor from October 2010 to 2016, is alleged to have stolen millions of dollars of Chihuahua state funds. Much of the money is allegedly in the United States, with El Paso families and […]
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Covid Detector To Be Manufactured in Mexico
Last week a West Palm Beach company announced a revolutionary Covid-19 detector it has developed. The handheld device can detect the corona virus and several of its mutated variations. In a January 26, 2021 press conference, Advanced Medical Solutions International’s CEO, Donald Redman, announced that the company’s Covid Hunter they developed. It will allow society […]
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Where Is Veronica Escobar On Immigration Reform?
In an article in today’s USA Today, Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-CA) was quoted by the as saying that there two types of lawmakers, “a workhorse or a showhorse.” Sánchez has organized seven legislators to push forth Biden’s ambitious immigration reform package through Congress. Absent from Sánchez’ group of legislators is El Paso’s own Veronica Escobar […]
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California Congresswomen Leading The Fight For Immigration Reform
Now that Joe Biden has offered an ambitious immigration reform package that should soon reach the Congress, the question becomes, who in Congress will help push the proposed legislation forward? It is expected that there will be significant resistance to the proposal, as such members of Congress who support the reforms will have to lobby […]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CHAMIZAL PARENTS HIGHLY CONCERNED EPISD DOES NOT HAVE THE CAPACITY TO OPEN SAFE SCHOOLS Douglass parents will hold a Press Conference Friday January 29, 2021 at 1pm via Zoom, to Demand Safe Schools! Children have returned to school in Douglas without a good health plan and this puts our entire community at risk. They are not […]