Morgan Smith

On Feb. 23, 2024 in Sunland Park, New Mexico, detainees from Ecuador sit in and outside a Border Patrol vehicle after being detained by Border Patrol Agent Hector Covarrubias. The three women will be taken to a detention center to be processed.

抖阴ap: Failure and success enforcing immigration laws on the southern border

May 20, 2024 at 11:14 a.m.

鈥淚 know you!鈥� Border Patrol agent Hector Covarrubias exclaimed in his rapid-fire Spanish to two women from Torre贸n, Mexico who he had just detained. We were in a desert area...

A girl looks on as others reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers, while they wait between two border walls to apply for asylum Friday, May 12, 2023, in San Diego. Hundreds of migrants remain waiting between the two walls, many for days. The U.S. entered a new immigration enforcement era Friday, ending a three-year-old asylum restriction and enacting a set of strict new rules that the Biden administration hopes will stabilize the U.S.-Mexico border and push migrants to apply for protections where they are, skipping the dangerous journey north. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

抖阴ap: The crisis on the Southern border is an issue of humanity

May 22, 2023 at 9:02 a.m.

I鈥檝e had extensive contact with hundreds of Venezuelan migrants often in very harsh circumstances as when they were living in terrible conditions on the riverbank in Ju谩rez across from El...

These are four young men who had come over the mountain into Sunland Park, New Mexico and were detained by the Border Patrol there. (Photo courtesy of Morgan Smith)

抖阴ap: On America’s southern border, the reality is a crisis of asylum

October 19, 2022 at 12:20 p.m.

Within five minutes, we encounter four migrants who had come down the steep, treacherous slopes of Monte Cristo Rey and dashed across the highway in front of our vehicle. The...

FILE – In this Friday, March 19, 2021, photo migrants are seen in custody at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing area under the Anzalduas International Bridge in Mission, Texas. The Biden administration is facing growing questions about why it wasn’t more prepared for an influx of migrants at the southern border. The administration is scrambling to build up capacity to care for 14,000 young undocumented migrants now in federal custody — and more likely on the way. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

抖阴ap: Ken Salazar, as ambassador, could do much to repair the U.S.-Mexico relationship

June 10, 2021 at 10:15 a.m.

The Biden administration will soon be naming an ambassador to Mexico and I certainly hope that it will be Colorado's former U.S. Senator Ken Salazar.

Mexican soldiers at gap in wall between Sunland Park, NM and Anapra, Mexico in October. They told the photographer they were from Veracruz.

Guest Commentary: Trump didn’t solve the migrant crisis — he just made it inhuman

November 29, 2019 at 11:29 a.m.

Recently, I saw some 200 migrants from the very dangerous Mexican state of Michaoc谩n living on the sidewalk of a narrow street that leads to the international bridge. It抖阴ap inhuman,...

Guest Commentary: I scouted the U.S.-Mexico border looking for dignity and leadership

June 4, 2019 at 1:25 p.m.

Yes, there has been a recent flood of asylum seekers, but asking for asylum is a right -- it is not illegal. Why, therefore, have we made it so confusing...

Littleton residents cool off at the swim beach at Chatfield Reservoir as temperatures reached in to the 90s.

Is spring break safe? Public officials warn students of increased danger as vacations begin

March 9, 2019 at 12:57 p.m.

Along with March Madness and St. Patrick's Day, March marks the start of spring break: a week when college students flock to warm destinations and drench themselves in liquor, tanning...

In this 2014 file photo a Mexican boy looks at a member of the U.S. Border Patrol standing guard on the border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Guest Commentary: Looking north from Mexico on immigration

February 1, 2017 at 10:35 a.m.

These immigration issues are not just a test of political will; they are also a question of humanity. Will Trump pass or fail?

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