El Paso County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census,the population was 865,657,making it the ninth-most populous county in the state of Texas. Its seat is the city of El Paso,the sixth-most populous city in Texas and the 22nd-most populous city in the United States. The county was created in 1850 and later organized in 1871.
El Paso is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County,Texas,United States. The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815,making it the 22nd-most populous city in the U.S.,the most populous city in West Texas,and the sixth-most populous city in Texas. Its metropolitan statistical area covers all of El Paso and Hudspeth counties in Texas,and had a population of 868,859 in 2020.
The Sun Bowl is a college football bowl game that has been played since 1935 in the southwestern United States at El Paso,Texas. Along with the Sugar Bowl and Orange Bowl,it is the second-oldest bowl game in the country,behind the Rose Bowl. Usually held near the end of December,games are played at the Sun Bowl stadium on the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso. Since 2011,it has featured teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and the Pac-12 Conference.
Gregory Wayne Abbott is an American politician,attorney,and jurist serving as the 48th governor of Texas since 2015. A member of the Republican Party,he served as the 50th attorney general of Texas from 2002 to 2015 and as a justice of the Texas Supreme Court from 1996 to 2001.
John F. Cook is an American businessman,veteran,civic leader,and member of the Paso Del Norte Group. Cook was Mayor of El Paso,Texas for two terms from 2005 to 2013. Due to the City Charter's term limits clause Cook was not eligible for a third term in 2013.
Norma Chávez served seven terms as a member of the Democratic Party in the Texas House of Representatives representing District 76. She was defeated for re-election by Naomi Gonzalez in the Democratic primary runoff held on April 13,2010,and left office in January 2011.
Kirk Preston Watson is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 59th mayor of Austin,Texas since 2023,previously holding the office as the 54th mayor from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party,he ran unsuccessfully for Texas Attorney General in the 2002 election,when he was defeated by Republican Greg Abbott,later governor of Texas. In 2006,Watson was elected to the Texas Senate from District 14.
San Jacinto Plaza is a historic park located on the corner of Oregon and Mills in the heart of Downtown El Paso,Texas.
Eric Leroy Adams is an American politician and former police officer,currently serving as the 110th mayor of New York City since 2022. An ideologically moderate member of the Democratic Party,Adams was an officer in the New York City Transit Police and then the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for more than 20 years,retiring at the rank of captain. He served in the New York State Senate from 2006 to 2013,representing the 20th Senate district in Brooklyn. In November 2013,Adams was elected Brooklyn Borough President,the first African-American to hold the position,and reelected in November 2017.
Anthony Cobos is an American politician from the State of Texas in the United States. He served as the El Paso County Judge from 2007 to 2011 and is a former member of the El Paso City Council. El Paso County,Texas,is located on the border of the United States and Mexico.
The 2013 El Paso mayoral election was held on May 11 and June 8,2013,to elect the Mayor of El Paso,Texas. Incumbent Mayor John Cook could not seek another term due to term limits. In the nonpartisan preliminary round was held on May 11,2013,businessman Oscar Leeser and City Councilman Steve Ortega placed first and second with 47% and 21% of the vote,respectively,and because no candidate received a majority,a runoff election was held on June 15. Leeser won the runoff election.
El Paso,Texas,held a first round of general elections on May 6,2017,to elect the mayor and city council. The run-off election was June 10,2017. Incumbent Mayor Oscar Leeser was eligible for another term,but announced in July 2016 he would not seek another term. Leeser had a cancer-related surgery in 2016,but stated that his decision was not because of his health. Instead,it was because he "ran to do things I thought were really important for our community and I did that."
On November 6,2018,El Paso County elected a new member of the House of Representatives of the United States,a new county judge,two county commissioners,five state representatives,four city council members.
Donald "Dee" Margo is an American businessman and politician who served as the 51st mayor of El Paso,Texas from 2017 to 2021.
Veronica Escobar is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 16th congressional district,based in El Paso,since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,she served as an El Paso County commissioner from 2007 to 2011 and the El Paso county judge from 2011 until 2017.
The Tornillo tent city was a temporary immigrant detention facility for children located in Tornillo,Texas and operated by BCFS on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement. The Department termed it an "emergency influx care facility" and named it the Tornillo Influx Facility. When it was built in June 2018,the capacity was 400 minor immigrants with a one month contract. It was later expanded to a capacity of 4,000 minors. As many as 2,800 teenagers were held at the site before its closure was announced in January 2019. This made it one of the largest facilities in ORR's Unaccompanied Alien Children Program. All immigrant children had left the facility by January 11,2019. Nearly 6,200 minors cycled through the facility within the seven months it operated. The area was previously used for a few months in 2016 to process migrant families and unaccompanied minors.
On November 3,2020 El Paso County elected the mayor of El Paso,Texas,four members of city council,two county commissioners,county sheriff,state senator,and five state representatives. El Pasoans voted for members of the House of Representatives of the United States from the 16th and 23rd districts of Texas,district attorney,United States senator,and president of the United States.
Annunciation House is a network of shelters located in El Paso,Texas. It primarily provides assistance to newly arrived migrants from Central America. Their facilities provide food,sleeping accommodation,and referrals for legal and medical support. The organization has close links to local faith communities,particularly the Catholic Church. Annunciation House has received international attention and news-coverage as a result of incidents related to the 2014 American immigration crisis,the Trump administration family separation policy,the U.S.-Mexico border crisis,and the National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States. As of January 2020,Rubén Garcia has been Director of the shelter for more than 40 years.
A Title 42 expulsion is the removal by the U.S. government of a person who had recently been in a country where a communicable disease was present. The extent of authority for contagion-related expulsions is set out by law in 42 U.S.C. § 265. During the COVID-19 pandemic,the Trump administration used this provision to generally block land entry for many migrants. This practice was initially continued by the Biden administration before the program was ended with the end of the COVID-19 national emergency in the United States. Title 42 of the United States Code includes numerous sections dealing with public health,social welfare,and civil rights,but,in the context of immigration,the phrase "Title 42" came to be used to refer specifically to expulsions under section 265.
The mayoralty of Eric Adams began when Eric Adams was inaugurated shortly after midnight on January 1,2022.
