With today’s vote the El Paso City Council called on the city attorney’s office to lay out a framework of preventing ICE from opening detention centers in city limits by the next meeting. An Afghan asylum seeker who had aided U-S Special Forces in Afghanistan was arrested by ICE in the Dallas area last Friday morning and died in custody the next day. El Paso County has nearly $800,000 dollars in unspent Opioid settlement funds from the state of Texas and soon county commissioners will be asked how to use that money.
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This program originally aired on March 17, 2026