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Lawyers across the country hired to represent unaccompanied migrant children were ordered to stop working through an email from the U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Families of victims of the Sun Metro Center explosion and subsequent fire two weeks ago are calling on the city to allow access to the facility for an independent investigation.

Under an agreement between the state of Texas and the Trump administration, National Guard troops on the border can carry out immigration enforcement. The El Paso County Commissioners Court directed its staff to prepare a plan to issue debt that will pay for water and road infrastructure.

KTEP’s Aaron Montes and Angela Kocherga discuss the week’s news.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has laid off hundreds of employees as part of President Trump’s plan to reduce the federal workforce. National Weather Service advisories for wind and dust will end tonight.

The Trump administration cut off funding to legal services for minors who enter the U-S unaccompanied, including El Paso nonprofit Estrella del Paso.

The on again off again Canada and Mexico tariffs are off again. The Trump administration announced a one month pause on tariffs for most goods from those neighboring countries.

An ongoing process to renovate the Bridge of the Americas in South Central El Paso is on a temporary pause, according to the General Services Administration. Without discussion, the City Council okayed the El Paso Police Department’s application for more border security grants from the State of Texas.

The city of El Paso says a second Sun Metro employee injured in a blast and subsequent fire in February has died. The U.S. General Services Administration removed a list designating four federal properties in El Paso as disposal.

KTEP’s Angela Kocherga and Aaron Montes talk about a pause to additional tariffs on some Mexican and Canadian goods. Also, the State of the City and Mayor Renard’s Johnson’s comments about a proposed Deck Plaza over Interstate 10 at Downtown.