Angela Kocherga
Emmy winning multimedia journalist Angela Kocherga is news director with KTEP and Borderzine. She is also multimedia editor with ElPasoMatters.org, an independent news organization.
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Most asylum seekers who try to enter the U.S. have been expelled during the pandemic. The Biden administration is expanding efforts to grant exceptions to vulnerable migrants, including trans people.
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More migrants are granted humanitarian exceptions to a pandemic public health order that effectively closed the Southern border. U.S. officials are working with NGOs to identify the most vulnerable.
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has announced a new multi-agency effort targeting international organizations that smuggle migrants into the U.S. and have been operating briskly lately.
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Their mother has been located in the United States and the goal is to reunite the girls, aged 3 and 5, with her.
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The Biden administration faces a challenge on the Southwest border, where about 5,000 unauthorized migrants cross daily. Around half are turned back, but now some places in Mexico won't accept them.
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The Trump administration put up hundreds of miles of 18- to 30-foot bollard walls on the U.S.-Mexico border. Many migrants are simply climbing over them, suffering serious injuries as a result.
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President Biden is telling migrants "don't come," as a humanitarian crisis grows at the U.S. border with Mexico. The administration is sending most people who cross the border back to Mexico.
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On Monday, House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy led a group of Republican lawmakers to the U.S. southern border in Texas amid a jump in the number of migrants showing up at the border.
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It's a tamale season. Nowhere is the holiday tradition more beloved than along the southern border. But this year the pandemic is affecting who makes tamales and how people get them in Texas.
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With the coronavirus surging, an El Paso, Texas, county judge ordered all nonessential businesses to close. But after several business owners and the state attorney sued, a court put the plan on hold.