By Special to El Paso Matters, El Paso Matters By David Stout El Paso is a community comprised and shaped by immigrants, rooted in solidarity, and defined by our binational spirit. Every day, people come here to build better lives, and in doing so, they make our community, and our country, stronger. 

David Stout What happens in El Paso often becomes the blueprint for the nation. That is why we must speak strongly against Trump’s mass incarceration of immigrants and the weaponization of our city for profit and fear.  The federal government is building the largest migrant detention facility in U.S. history, a 5,000-bed facility, right here in El Paso County, on Fort Bliss property. It will be run by private contractors with no experience in immigration or humanitarian care, and it was plan

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