Mónica Ortiz Uribe
Senior Field CorrespondentSenior Field Correspondent Mónica Ortiz Uribe (Las Cruces) is a native of El Paso, Texas, where she recently worked as a freelance reporter. Her work has aired on NPR, Public Radio International and Radio Bilingue. Most of her stories examined the effects of drug-related violence across the border in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Previously, she worked as a reporter for the Waco Tribune Herald in Waco, Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a degree in history.
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El Paso has scrambled to move migrants off the streets and into shelters as temperatures plummet below freezing, but federal law dictates which migrants can stay inside city facilities. -
A federal appeals court ruled this week that a Trump administration program that returns some asylum-seekers to Mexico to wait out cases can continue for now. Advocates are concerned for migrants.
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A man accused of plotting to kill a United States consulate worker and her husband is set to go to trial this week in El Paso. The murders happened during the height of drug-related violence in neighboring Ciudad Juárez.
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New Mexico has some of the most expensive liquor licenses in the country. Recently, a retail license typically used to sell alcohol at a store, sold for nearly $1 million. -
Miguel Angel Treviño Morales is the leader of Los Zetas, one of Mexico's most powerful and most feared drug cartels. -
Hot and dry conditions have also sparked significant blazes throughout New Mexico. The fastest growing scorcher is the Silver Fire, which is consuming the southeastern edge of the Gila Wilderness.
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