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The “not guilty” verdict in U.S. Magistrate Court in El Paso came in the case of a Peruvian woman charged with the petty ...

El Paso grand jury indicts individuals for illegal entry into the Texas National Defense Area, with over 340 border-related ...

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- 16 migrants accused of illegally entering the U.S. through the Texas National Defense Area (NDA) were just indicted by a federal grand jury in El Paso. The federal government ...

They’re accused of illegally entering the U.S. as well as a 60-foot strip of land recently designated as a national defense area. The military trespassing charges have been dismissed in at least 120 ...

Several hundred immigrants have been charged with unauthorized access to a newly designated militarized zone along the southern U.S. border in New Mexico and Western Texas since the Department of ...

The new military buffer zone mostly stretches 60 feet deep into U.S. territory. A federal magistrate judge has dismissed trespassing charges against 98 people who were arrested along the Southwest ...

The Department of Defense has taken over an area along the border seven times the size of Manhattan, after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency due to an "invasion" of migrants.

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- With the National Defense Areas now in place across the borderland region. Troops assigned to the Joint Task Force - "southern border", are actively patrolling the border ...

A grand jury indicted several for illegal entry into the Texas NDA, including repeat offenders with felony records.