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Eagle Pass
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Weather | 36°C, Wind NE at 11 km/h, 34% Humidity |
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ZIP codes | 78852-78853 |
Population | 28,945 (2017) |
Local time | Saturday 15:31 |
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ID | 937367 |
About Eagle Pass
Eagle Pass is a city in and the county seat of Maverick County in the U. S. state of Texas. The population was 26,255 as of the 2010 census. Eagle Pass borders the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, which is to the southwest and across the Rio Grande.
Thirsty and exhausted, Texans feel the heatwave
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... Elias Diaz, a city councilman in the town of Eagle Pass who also works at the county s hospital district, told the BBC he feared that profits would ultimately trump safety concerns at some work sites across the state...
The Texas town caught in the middle of America's border battle
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...By Bernd Debusmann JrReporting from Eagle Pass, TexasUnder the brutal heat of the midday South Texas sun, pecan farmer Magali Urbina found herself dealing with a sadly familiar scene: a family of dehydrated, injured migrants on her property...
Is Texas 'floating wall' a migrant deterrent or pure theatre?
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... The buoys will be connected with webbing and anchored to the bottom of the river in the Eagle Pass area, which has seen about 270,000 migrant detentions this fiscal year...
US immigration: 'They'd rather die than return to Nicaragua'
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... The risks were starkly highlighted on 1 May by the death of Calixto Nelson Rojas, a Nicaraguan radio host, whose death by drowning in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass was caught on video by a Fox News cameraman...