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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A federal judge in El Paso has extended by two weeks a temporary restraining order blocking Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order restricting the transportation of migrants in the state. The Department of Justice asked for the restraining order to keep Abbott from using state troopers to stop vehicles suspected of transporting migrants.
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El Paso, Texas, is remembering the 23 people killed during a mass shooting at a Walmart on this day in 2019. The alleged gunman said online that he wanted to stop the "Hispanic invasion" of the state.
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Van Horn, Texas, looks ahead to its moment in the spotlight as the launch site for Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space flight, which is expected Tuesday.
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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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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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A year after the U.S. border was closed to all non-essential travel, the pandemic has underscored an informal economy that many fronterizos...
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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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KTEP's Angela Kocherga shares the story of a seamstress who stitches together memory bears for grieving families during the pandemic. Relatives find comfort in the teddy bears created from the clothing of loved ones who died.