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Assayer of Student Opinion.

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Portrait of children walking aside the Rio Grande River, near the El Paso dam, while waiting for their parents to finish fishing. Tuesday, April 11, 2017

I Photographed Juárez for National Geographic

Hugo Hinojosa, Contributor November 14, 2018

Editor’s Note: 

The National Geographic Photo Camp it’s a five-day workshop that teaches young people to tell their own stories through photography. Since 2003, National Geographic has completed 74 Photo Camps, with over 2,500 students from...

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Local filmmaker talks the release of his new movie Borderland

Local filmmaker talks the release of his new movie Borderland

Claudia Flores, Multimedia Editor September 4, 2018

Breaking into the film industry is a hard task to accomplish, but the challenges didn’t stop 32-year-old filmmaker Andrew Jara from releasing his new film Borderland in more than 100 different countries. Born and raised in El Paso, Jara discovered...

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How to help kids separated from parents at the border

How to help kids separated from parents at the border

Jake Deven, Contributor June 27, 2018

Since the Trump administration began enforcing its controversial “zero tolerance” policy at the U.S.-Mexico border, nearly 2,400 migrant children have been separated from their parents at the border. While President Trump recently signed an executive...

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Jessica Miles said that the Otero Processing Center in Chaparral, New Mexico was one of the worst detention centers she has ever seen.

Borderland dehumanizes and marginalizes asylum seekers, according to recent report

Christian Vasquez, Web Editor January 18, 2018
The Hope Border Institute and the Borderland Immigratino Council presented a report on asylum seekers living under the Trump administration on Thursday night at the El Paso Natural Gas Conference Center. The study, "Sealing the Border: The Criminalization of Asylum Seekers in the Trump Era," documented human rights violations by immigration enforcement agencies in El Paso and Southern New Mexico.
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Veliz Books brings contemporary literature to the borderland

Veliz Books brings contemporary literature to the borderland

Andria Granado, Contributor July 5, 2016

Veliz Books, the newest independent literary press to come out of El Paso, publishes contemporary literature, giving diversified cultural and linguistic backgrounds a chance to be shared with a wider readership. Veliz Books was founded by Minerva Laveaga...

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