Veteran who was deported for felony just wants to come homeJUÁREZ, Mexico — The rising crest of the Franklins is a few miles from Ivan Ocon’s front porch. From there he can see those El Paso mountains, gray and timberless, framed by the telephone poles and power lines stretched across his narrow street in… Nov 22 21November 22, 2021Article at Albuquerque Journal
Afghan resettlement in New Mexico: Coordinators in search of housingBorder Report When the Taliban toppled the Afghan republic in August and reinstated the fundamentalist Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the international community watched in shock as the country underwent a dramatic Anti-American political implosion.… Nov 19 21November 19, 2021Article at Ruidoso News
WWI Hero Marcelino Serna: Will he ever get a Congressional Medal of Honor?Amid the 1911 chaos of the Mexican Revolution, Marcelino Serna left his boyhood home in Chihuahua to find work, venturing through the borderland of northern Mexico. Unable to find a job in the war-struck region, he climbed into a makeshift raft that… Nov 05 21November 05, 2021Article at El Paso Inc.
‘The Insurmountable Task’ : Honoring Company EIn the dark hours of winter in 1944, U.S. forces landed at the Gulf of Salerno, onto the German-fortified shores of Southwest Italy. President Franklin Roosevelt believed Germany could be defeated by puncturing through Italy. The 36th Infantry… Nov 05 21November 05, 2021Article at El Paso Inc.
Fort Bliss adapts to Operation Allies WelcomeTwenty years after the U.S. military swarmed over Afghanistan in its campaign to avenge the 9-11 terrorist attacks, a massive military cargo plane evacuated that Middle Eastern country with 640 Afghans aboard and hundreds running alongside in a… Nov 05 21November 05, 2021Article at El Paso Inc.