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Failure to get federal dollars to fund design concepts for the proposed Downtown deck plaza has local officials scrambling for funding. Texas has signed an agreement with the federal government authorizing national guard soldiers on state orders to make immigration arrests.

City officials say they’ll enforce an existing ordinance preventing El Pasoans from operating their homes like entertainment venues. University of Texas at El Paso is offering guidance to staff and faculty about what to do if ICE agents show up on campus.

The Trump administration removed the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas Jaime Esparza.

The Socorro Independent School District proposes up to 300 staff cuts for the next school year, according to a district letter sent to employees on Friday.

An investigation into the explosion that injured eight Sun Metro employees at an operations center in East El Paso will take weeks. El Paso Fire Department chief Jonathan Killings said details on what caused the blast will not be released until the investigation is complete.

KTEP’s Angela Kocherga and Aaron Montes host this week’s news roundup.

The El Paso City Council will vote on Tuesday to increase the city administration’s cap on contracting outside procurement processes in response to the damage from an explosion at a Sun Metro Center on the East Side.

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.