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The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown has met with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican.

The U.S. government is building an immense 5,000-person detention camp in west Texas, government contract announcements said, sharply increasing the Trump administration’s ability to hold detained immigrants amid its ever-growing mass deportation efforts.

A Peruvian woman who crossed the U.S. border illegally has been acquitted of unauthorized access to a newly designated militarized zone along the southern border.

Attorneys for a Guatemalan man deported to Mexico say he has landed in California.

The Trump administration says it's working to return a Guatemalan man who was deported to Mexico over his fears of being harmed there.

The Defense Department says it has designated a second stretch on the U.S. border with Mexico as a military zone to enforce immigration laws.

North America’s three biggest measles outbreaks have grown to a total of more than 2,500 known cases.

A federal judge in west Texas has joined other courts in temporarily blocking the deportations of Venezuelan immigrants under an 18th-century wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act.

In an El Paso courthouse not far from where a gunman killed 23 people at a Walmart in a 2019 attack targeting Hispanic shoppers, victims’ family members and survivors got their last chance to address him face-to-face in court this week.

Social media apps like TikTok have become an essential tool for smugglers and migrants alike.

A line of Mexican National Guard and Army trucks are rumbling along the border separating Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, Texas, among the first of 10,000 troops Mexico has sent to its northern frontier following tariff threats by President Donald Trump.

U.S. officials say active duty military troops are arriving in El Paso, Texas, and in San Diego on Thursday evening.

U.S. authorities say arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico rose slightly in August.

Texas is widening investigations into aid organizations along the U.S.-Mexico border over claims that nonprofits are helping migrants illegally enter the country.

Patrick Bertoletti of Chicago has won his first men’s title at the annual Nathan’s hot dog eating contest.

A judge has blasted efforts by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to shutter one of the oldest and largest migrant shelters on the U.S.-Mexico border in a scathing ruling.

Christian voters and faith leaders have long been in the frontlines of providing assistance to migrants.

Venezuelans became the largest nationality arrested for illegally crossing the U.S. border last month, replacing Mexicans for the first time on record.

The Pentagon is pulling 1,100 troops from the U.S.-Mexico border that it had deployed in response to a surge in migrant crossings.

Family members of the 23 people killed in a racist attack at a Texas Walmart are confronting the gunman face-to-face in court for the first time since the 2019 massacre.

The Texas gunman who killed 23 people in a racist 2019 attack at a Walmart has returned to federal court for sentencing.

A Kentucky woman is accused of fatally shooting her West Texas Uber driver after mistakenly believing she was being kidnapped and taken to Mexico.

Mark Seitz, the Roman Catholic bishop of El Paso, Texas, tells The Associated Press that Florida Gov_ Ron DeSantis' flights of migrants from the Texas border to California are “reprehensible” and “not morally acceptable.”.

When Luis López was lost in Panama's Darien Gap last year with his pregnant wife, their two children and her grandmother, he often knelt in the mud to beg God not to abandon them.

As confusion pervades El Paso, one of the busiest illegal crossings points for migrants fleeing poverty and strife, faith leaders strive to provide shelter, legal advice and prayer.

The border between the U.S. and Mexico is relatively calm, offering few signs of the chaos that had been feared following a rush by worried migrants to enter the U.S. before the end of pandemic-related immigration restrictions.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman says a large number of migrants in Mexico who tried to push their way into the United States were prevented from crossing a bridge leading to El Paso, Texas, from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Police in El Paso, Texas, say a 16-year-old boy who fatally shot a 17-year-old boy and wounded two other people during a fight at a mall faces a murder charge and three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Officials say a shooting at a Texas mall that killed one person and wounded three others began as a confrontation between two groups.

Police in El Paso, Texas, say one person was killed and three other people were wounded in a shooting Wednesday in a shopping mall.

Police in El Paso, Texas, say a one person has been killed and three others have been wounded in a shooting at a shopping mall.

The man accused of killing nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at a Texas Walmart plans to plead guilty to federal charges in the case.

Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at a West Texas Walmart in 2019.

President Joe Biden has wrapped up a four-hour visit to the U.S.-Mexico border.

President Joe Biden will arrive Sunday in El Paso for his first, politically thorny visit to the southern border.

Mark Seitz of El Paso is the first bishop from a state along the Mexico border to head the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ migration committee in at least 20 years.

Ten guards and four inmates were killed early Sunday when gunmen in armored vehicles attacked a state prison in Ciudad Juarez across the border from El Paso, Texas.

Growing numbers of migrants suffer violence that amounts to torture on their journeys.

Tens of thousands of migrants who fled violence and poverty are spending Christmas in crowded shelters or on the dangerous streets of Mexican border towns.

The Biden administration has been conspicuously silent about how migrants who plan to claim asylum should enter the United States when Trump-era limits end, fueling rumors, confusion and doubts about its readiness.

Tensions remain high at the U.

Cities along the U.S.-Mexico border are setting in motion humanitarian efforts including emergency shelter, food and transportation services ahead of an expected dramatic increase in the number of asylum-seekers as pandemic-era immigration restrictions are set to expire this week.

The mayor of a Texas border city has declared a state of emergency over concerns about the community’s ability to handle an anticipated influx of migrants across the Southern border.

The Department of Homeland Security says more migrants may be released into the United States to pursue immigration cases when Trump-era asylum restrictions end next week.

A Texas prosecutor facing mounting criticism over the handling of the 2019 Walmart mass shooting in El Paso that killed 23 people has resigned.

One of two Texas brothers who authorities say opened fire on a group of migrants getting water near the U.S.-Mexico border was a warden at a detention facility with a history of abuse allegations.

Every Sunday afternoon since last Easter, teens kneel by a makeshift altar at Fort Bliss and pray so hard that tears stream down their faces.

Lew Nichols III ran for 130 yards and a touchdown, leading late replacement Central Michigan to a 24-21 victory over Washington State in the Sun Bowl.

Mexican officials have reversed their previous position against giving coronavirus booster shots and are studying a plan to administer third doses to people over 60.

A new river of lava has belched out from the La Palma volcano, spreading more destruction on the Atlantic Ocean island where molten rock streams have already engulfed over 1,000 buildings.

Giant rivers of lava are tumbling slowly but relentlessly toward the sea after a volcano erupted on a Spanish island off northwest Africa.

The U.S. Border Patrol hopes to free up agents to go back into the field by hiring civilians to perform tasks like checking holding cells and collecting information for immigration court papers.

A new Texas law allows most people age 21 or older who haven’t been convicted of a felony can carry a holstered handgun in public without undergoing any training or getting a permit.

Senior members of President Joe Biden’s administration are in Mexico for talks on addressing illegal migration to the U.S. That's according to the White House.

Officials in the border city of El Paso dedicated a garden meant to bring healing two years after a gunman targeting Latinos opened fire at a Walmart, killing 23 people in an attack that stunned the U.S. and Mexico.

Vice President Kamala Harris has used her first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border since taking office to call for an end to political “rhetoric” and “infighting” over immigration, an issue that Republicans have been eager to weaponize against her.

Over the weekend, a Texas woman hopped into a spider monkey enclosure at the El Paso Zoo to feed anmials Hot Cheetos, according to multiple reports.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a retired federal law enforcement officer who was put in a chokehold and wrestled to the ground at a VA hospital security checkpoint.

Something went wrong at the security checkpoint at the VA hospital in El Paso, Texas, on a winter’s day in 2016.

A year after the pandemic canceled most proms, school districts around the country are considering whether they can once again hold the formal dance for seniors.

FILE - This Sept. 9, 2014 file photo shows cars wait to enter Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. The U.S. Army says eleven soldiers have been injured after ingesting an unknown substance during a field training exercise at Fort Bliss. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca, File)FORT BLISS, Texas – An investigation into what sickened 11 soldiers who ingested an unauthorized substance shows they drank an industrial compound found in antifreeze believing it was alcohol following a 10-day field training exercise at Fort Bliss in Texas, U.S. Army officials said Friday. Those sickened include one warrant officer, two noncommissioned officers and eight enlisted members, Fort Bliss officials said in an earlier statement. The Fort Bliss senior commander has also directed an administrative investigation.

EL PASO, Texas – El Paso residents have elected a new mayor, handing a defeat to incumbent Mayor Dee Margo in favor of his predecessor, Oscar Leeser, in a runoff race defined by the city’s coronavirus crisis. Leeser, who was mayor of the West Texas city on the Mexican border from 2013 through 2017, won with an overwhelming 82% of the vote, according to El Paso County's unofficial tally. He finished first among six mayoral candidates in November, but with less than 50%, forcing Saturday's runoff. “I look forward to really starting tomorrow morning.”Mayoral races in El Paso are nonpartisan, but Margo, a businessman and former state legislator, identifies as a Republican. Leeser will be sworn in in early January, a city officials told the Times, although a date has not been set for the ceremony.

And the number of people in the hospital with COVID-19 hit another all-time high at more than 80,000. California ordered a 10 p.m.-to 5-a.m. curfew starting Saturday, covering 94% of the state’s 40 million residents. COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are at their highest level since late May, when the Northeast was emerging from the first wave of the crisis. “It’s really, really throwing gasoline on a fire,” said Temasamani, who was skeptical that police will enforce the curfew. The move came as health officials reported more than 4,000 additional COVID-19 cases for the second consecutive day.

A judge on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020 has blocked a Trump administration rule that would have put up new roadblocks for asylum-seekers convicted of a variety of crimes. The federal judge in San Francisco says current federal law already includes plenty of disqualifying crimes such as drug trafficking, money laundering and counterfeiting. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File)LOS ANGELES – A federal judge on Thursday blocked a Trump administration rule about to take effect that would have put up new roadblocks for asylum-seekers convicted of a variety of crimes. The rule would have also denied asylum to people convicted of crimes that an adjudicator “knows or has reason to believe” was committed to supporting a criminal street gang. Asylum is for people fleeing persecution for their race, religion, nationality, political beliefs or membership in a social group.

AUSTIN, Texas – Texas became America's first state Wednesday with more than 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, as sporting events were canceled and the border city of El Paso added mobile morgues in anticipation of virus deaths overwhelming hospitals for weeks. Only Illinois has averaged more new cases than Texas over the past two weeks. Texas recently surpassed California, the most populous state, in recording the highest number of positive coronavirus tests. El Paso County officials this week announced plans to add four additional morgue trailers, bringing the total number there to 10. In Lubbock County, home of Texas Tech University, health officials reported a surge of nearly 3,400 new cases last week.

AUSTIN, Texas – Texas has surpassed California in recording the highest number of positive coronavirus tests in the U.S. so far, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. By comparison, California — home to more than 39 million people — has a rate of 2,371.56 cases per 100,000. The seven-day rolling average of daily new cases in Texas rose from about 4,470 new cases per day to about 6,070. Almost 5,800 COVID-19 hospitalizations were reported in Texas Monday, 87.3% more than at the Sept. 20 low point. Last Thursday, El Paso County officials ordered a two-week shutdown of nonessential activities after the area’s medical resources were overwhelmed by COVID-19 cases.

“You can’t cut El Paso without cutting Juarez, and you can’t cut Juarez without cutting El Paso.”In other developments Tuesday, Illinois Gov. Also, the University Medical Center of El Paso erected heated isolation tents to treat coronavirus patients. El Paso County recorded about 1,400 new cases Tuesday, just short of the previous day's record of 1,443. Other Mexican border cities have complained about people entering from U.S. cities that are suffering from virus outbreaks. Dr. Hector Ocaranza, the city and county health authority in El Paso, said the heavily Latino city's family-based culture has been a contributing factor in the spread.

In this May 23, 2020 photo provided by Tito Anchondo, Paul Anchondo is held by his grandmother, Brenda Anchondo in El Paso, Texas. The toddler is unlikely to learn until years from now what happened to his parents in events that many El Paso residents still struggle to comprehend, said uncle Tito Anchondo, whose brother Andre and sister-in-law Jordan died in the shooting at a Walmart store last year. (Herman Delgado via The AP)

In this May 23, 2020 photo provided by Tito Anchondo, Paul Anchondo is held by his grandmother, Brenda Anchondo in El Paso, Texas. It will be years before Paul Anchondo learns what happened to his parents in an event that many El Paso residents still struggle to comprehend, Tito Anchondo said. “We’ve been putting collections together of my brother’s photos, his accomplishments, basically trying to get as much information that we can and save it for” the boy, Tito Anchondo said. Authorities say Jordan Anchondo shielded the baby from gunfire, while her husband shielded them both. “Call it privilege (from) living in El Paso, one of the safest cities in the United States.”___Lee reported from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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(AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File)White supremacists and other far-right extremists killed at least 38 people in the U.S. in 2019, the sixth deadliest year for violence by all domestic extremists since 1970, according to a report issued Wednesday by a group that fights anti-semitism. The ADL’s annual Murder and Extremism report says domestic extremists of all kinds killed 42 people in a total of 17 separate incidents last year, down from 53 killings in 2018 but higher than the 41 in 2017. "This is part of a general trend of increasingly lethal attacks by domestic extremists in the United States," the report says. Right-wing extremists killed at least 330 people over the past decade, accounting for 76% of all domestic extremist-related killings. Fourteen of the 17 cases of killings by domestic extremists last year involved a single death, the ADL says.

(CNN) - Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke of Texas ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination on Friday, telling supporters he couldn't raise enough money to remain competitive with his party's leading 2020 contenders. Then O'Rourke told his full team in an all-staff call Friday afternoon. O'Rourke told supporters in an email that he will not run for office next year. In his short speech Friday evening, O'Rourke pledged to support the eventual Democratic presidential nominee. O'Rourke's former Democratic rivals praised him on Twitter on Friday, saying they appreciated his commitment to the issue of gun violence.

EL PASO, Texas - The family of a woman killed at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, is trying to stop the hatred against the Hispanic community by suing 8chan and the suspected shooter's family. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in El Paso district court by the children of Angelina Englisbee, one of the 22 people killed on August 3 after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart store in El Paso. The malice that was brought here from Dallas to El Paso. Christopher S. Ayres, an attorney representing the Crusius family, said they were saddened to be brought into the case, but continue committed to respect the court's processes. But he has been working to keep 8chan and its successor offline in the wake of the shooting in El Paso, Brennan said.

Volunteers stand with handmade crosses memorializing the victims of a mass shooting at a makeshift memorial outside Walmart, where a shooting took place in El Paso, Texas. (CNN) - Three months after an assailant gunned down 22 people at an El Paso Walmart, shattering a tight-knit community, the store will reopen with plans for a memorial honoring the victims. The memorial will feature 22 perforated aluminum arcs grouped into a single 30-foot monument "symbolizing unity and emanating light into the sky," Walmart said Tuesday. It's expected to be completed in late November or early December, Walmart Senior Director of Communications Delia Garcia said. "Our goal is to establish a memorial that honors the victims, recognizes the binational relationship between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, and celebrates the strength of the El Paso community," Hargrove said.

The pilot program in El Paso accelerates that process. The Washington Post first reported the El Paso program, saying it will result in decisions in 10 days or fewer. The expedited process is in line with the administration's efforts to curtail the flow of asylum seekers to the United States. Officials are using the El Paso pilot, which began a couple of weeks ago, to determine how quickly the process can move, added the official. Advocates were quick to object to the El Paso pilot Thursday.

Volunteers stand with handmade crosses memorializing the victims of a mass shooting at a makeshift memorial outside Walmart, where a shooting took place in El Paso, Texas. EL PASO, Texas (CNN) - Walmart workers could soon go back to work at the El Paso store where 22 people were killed on August 3, a company spokeswoman said. Walmart announced last month its plans to dedicate an area of the store to honor the mass shooting victims. "Our goal is to establish a memorial that honors the victims, recognizes the binational relationship between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, and celebrates the strength of the El Paso community," Hargrove said at the time. A Walmart spokesman said Thursday the judge has consistently denied the Garcias' request to halt the construction at the El Paso store, and the order will only allow them or their representatives to enter the store for two hours.

The mother of El Paso shooting suspect Patrick Crusius called police, concerned about her son owning an "AK" type firearm. EL PASO, Texas - A Texas judge assigned to the mass shooting case at a Walmart in El Paso has asked to be reassigned. Judge Angie Juarez Barill was assigned the case of suspected gunman Patrick Crusius. "A case of this magnitude should begin with a judge who can be reasonably sure to see it through to its conclusion," she said. Before the massacre, Crusius is believed to have authored a racist, anti-immigrant document that laid out a dark vision of America overrun by Hispanic immigrants.

Copyright 2019 CNN(CNN) - Three Catholic churches in El Paso have been targeted in arson attacks and investigators are offering a reward for information on the culprits. The first arson incident at the churches in Texas occurred on May 7 at St. Matthew Catholic Church followed by another one a week later at St. Patrick Cathedral, the FBI said in a statement. About a month later, on June 15, an arsonist targeted the Jude Catholic Church, the FBI said. In each of the cases, unknown perpetrators tossed incendiary devices at the churches in an attempt to set them ablaze, according to the FBI. The announcement comes six weeks after a mass shooting left 22 people dead at a Walmart in El Paso on Aug. 3.

The new policies only address guns that are openly carried, not guns that are concealed. To regulate concealed carried guns, retailers would have to pay to install metal detectors, which can be an unwelcoming hassle for customers. In a practical sense, there is little difference between companies saying they will "ask" or "tell" customers not to carry guns what matters is how they decide to enforce it. By saying they will "ask" customers not to openly carry guns, retailers may be trying to balance appeasing customers who feel uncomfortable shopping for groceries in a place where people openly carry guns, and not alienating their law-abiding, gun-carrying customers. The other companies who said they'd ask customers not to openly carry guns are in a similar boat.

HOUSTON (CNN) - Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke reiterated his support for a mandatory gun-buyback program of assault-style rifles on Thursday and said, "Hell, yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47." Twitter threatRepublican Texas state Rep. Briscoe Cain threatened O'Rourke on Twitter Thursday night in response to the buyback comments, tweeting, "My AR is ready for you Robert Francis." O'Rourke was quick to respond over the same social media platform, and characterized Cain's words as "a death threat." O'Rourke's press secretary Aleigha Cavalier told CNN's Leyla Santiago that the campaign was reporting the tweet to the FBI. O'Rourke told CNN's DJ Judd early Friday that Cain's tweet constituted a threat.

New details are out on the incarceration of the El Paso shooting suspect. (CNN) - The man accused of opening fire in an El Paso, Texas, Walmart, killing 22 people and wounding several others, has been indicted on a capital murder charge, the El Paso County District Attorney's Office said following the grand jury's Thursday decision. District Attorney Jaime Esparza intends to seek the death penalty in the Aug. 3 massacre, according to a statement. Capital murder is the highest charge in Texas, Esparza's office said, and is punishable by death or life in prison without parole. The 21-year-old is being held at the El Paso County Detention Facility without bond.

A man who was hailed a hero during the Walmart shooting in El Paso, Texas, this summer isnt "accurate," according to police. The account he gave to CNN was "inaccurate," El Paso police said in a statement. Nobody bothered to check with us, El Paso police spokesman Enrique Carrillo told the Washington Examiner. Twenty two people were killed in the Walmart shooting, another 24 were wounded. RELATED STORIESMan Who Lost Wife in El Paso Shooting Sees Thousands of Strangers at Her MemorialLady Gaga Is Funding Classroom Projects in El Paso, Dayton and Gilroy in Wake of ShootingsEl Paso Walmart Manager 'Just Wanted to Save as Many People' During Shooting

Democratic presidential candidate, former Rep. Beto ORourke (D-TX) speaks to media and supporters during a campaign relaunch on Aug. 15, 2019, in El Paso. (CNN) - Ahead of the third Democratic presidential primary debate in Houston this week, candidates are being instructed to clean up their language. The previous Democratic debates of this cycle were hosted by cable networks MSNBC and CNN, which aren't subject to FCC rules. The warning comes as several Democratic presidential candidates have taken to using expletives on the campaign trail -- most notably former Rep. Beto O'Rourke, for whom the F-bomb was also a hallmark of his Senate campaign in Texas. Earlier in his presidential campaign, an Iowa voter asked O'Rourke whether he would tone down his salty language, and O'Rourke said he would.

(CNN) - President Donald Trump on Monday awarded commendations to first responders and civilians involved in last month's back-to-back deadly mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. Trump awarded six Dayton law enforcement officials with the Medal of Valor -- the highest national honor given to US public safety officers -- and gave certificates of commendation to five civilians involved in the El Paso shooting. "In the midst of such profound anguish, one memory fills us with hope," Trump said in his remarks in the White House East Room. The Medal of Valor is typically awarded once a year. But Attorney General William Barr said in remarks at the White House ceremony on Monday that he made the exception to award the Dayton officers.

ODESSA, Texas (CNN) - For years, El Paso and Odessa have met on the football field to battle it out for the win and bragging rights. In El Paso, 22 people were killed and two dozen injured when a gunman opened fire at a Walmart on August 3. The teams, Franklin High School from El Paso and Permian High School in Odessa, both made special banners to exchange ahead of kick off at Ratliff Stadium in Odessa. "West Texas Strong," reads the banner made by the Odessa school. "Odessa Strong El Paso," reads the one from the El Paso team.

Volunteers stand with handmade crosses memorializing the victims of a mass shooting at a makeshift memorial outside Walmart, where a shooting took place in El Paso, Texas. (CNN) - A family of four who survived a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas is accusing Walmart of failing to provide adequate security to protect its customers. Police say Patrick Crusius, 21, opened fire on August 3 at a Walmart store in El Paso, killing 22 people and injuring dozens more. "We are also requesting information about Wal-Mart's security practices, including how the El Paso store was rated on Wal-Mart's highly secretive risk-scoring and crime-database systems," he said in the statement. "We also want to know whether El Paso Wal-Mart managers altered store security policies in response to a hostage situation and shooting that took place in 2016 at a Wal-Mart in Amarillo, Texas."

Khalid performs onstage during the "A Night For Suncity" benefit concert with Khalid & Friends at the Don Haskins Center on Sept. 1, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. (CNN) - Few people love El Paso as much as Khalid loves El Paso. He moved to El Paso during his senior year in high school. Every penny of the proceeds, raised through ticket and t-shirt sales, will be donated to the El Paso Community Foundation's Shooting Victims' Fund, he said. "I want to give back to my community of El Paso, the city of the 915, who has given so much to me.

"If you look at the numbers, we're looking at an active shooter every other week in this country," said Christopher Combs, special agent in charge of the FBI's San Antonio division. The FBI defines an active shooter as "an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area" like a school, workplace or other public gathering places. Number of active shooting incidents increasingThe FBI has done a study on all the active shooters between 2000 and 2018, Combs said, and found that the numbers keep increasing. "After every active shooter, we are concerned that there's going to be copycats," he said, citing something called the contagion effect -- a second active shooting popping up within 13 days of another. The biggest takeaway from the active shooter study, Combs said, was that these acts aren't committed at random.

Democratic presidential candidate, former Rep. Beto ORourke (D-TX) speaks to media and supporters during a campaign relaunch on Aug. 15, 2019, in El Paso. (CNN) - "This is f***ed up," 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke said live on CNN. He used the same expletive to describe the mass shooting Saturday at an event in Virginia. The West Texas shooting follows another mass shooting in early August that killed at least 22 people were killed at a shopping center in O'Rourke's hometown of El Paso, Texas. Hours after the shooting in El Paso, nine people were killed in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio.

(CNN) - Democratic presidential candidate and Texas native Beto O'Rourke on Saturday reacted to news of a mass shooting between the cities of Midland and Odessa, Texas, with a terse call to action, stating, "We need to end this epidemic." More information is forthcoming, but here's what we know: We need to end this epidemic," he tweeted. The shooting comes amid a renewed debate over gun control prompted by mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, earlier this month that left 31 dead. Congress has long struggled with addressing gun violence in America, even in the wake of mass shootings going back to Columbine in 1999. He tweeted earlier this month that he had "a very good meeting on preventing mass shootings," without specifying any potential policy direction.

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Democratic presidential candidate, former Rep. Beto ORourke (D-TX) speaks to media and supporters during a campaign relaunch on Aug. 15, 2019, in El Paso. (CNN) - Former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke said Thursday that both Democrats and Republicans are to blame for "inaction and indifference" on passing gun control legislation. "The level of inaction and indifference, and we can't just blame one political party for this," the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate said at a roundtable on gun control held in Des Moines, Iowa. O'Rourke is linking gun violence and hate speech, and is also proposing steps aimed at combating "white supremacy, racism and domestic terrorism." At the roundtable in Des Moines, O'Rourke highlighted law enforcement-based solutions for gun violence and also lessons he learned from the El Paso shooting.

A woman touches a cross at a makeshift memorial for victims outside Walmart, near the scene of a mass shooting on Aug. 3 which left at least 22 people dead, on Aug. 6, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. EL PASO, Texas - Walmart plans to reopen the El Paso store where 22 people were killed in a mass shooting this month, the retail giant said Thursday, but the entire interior of the building will first be rebuilt. Nearly all of the 400 employees at the El Paso store have been reassigned to other nearby locations, Hargrove said, and the Arkansas-based company believes reopening the store is "an important step in healing from this tragedy." Many shoppers from Ciudad Juarez went there because it is the closest Walmart to the four border bridges that connect to El Paso. In the days after the shooting, Hargrove said the company is reviewing security protocols.

A woman touches a cross at a makeshift memorial for victims outside Walmart, near the scene of a mass shooting on Aug. 3 which left at least 22 people dead, on Aug. 6, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. (CNN) - When the El Paso Walmart where 22 people were killed reopens in three to four months, the renovated property will have a memorial to the shooting victims, a company spokesman said Wednesday. "Our goal is to establish a memorial that honors the victims, recognizes the binational relationship between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, and celebrates the strength of the El Paso community," Hargrove said. "They have wanted to get back working in a store," Hargrove said. That includes the store manager, Robert Evans, who told CNN earlier this month he will continue working at the store.

New details are out on the incarceration of the El Paso shooting suspect. EL PASO, Texas - The suspect in the deadly shooting in El Paso, Texas, has been placed on suicide watch based on the recommendation of medical staff at the jail, the El Paso Times reported, citing an official with the El Paso County Sheriff's Office. Patrick Crusius, 21, of Allen, Texas, is being held without bond on capital murder charges in the shooting that left 22 people dead and more than a dozen wounded. While in custody, Crusius has been "cold" in his interactions with police, police officials told CNN. The four-page document, titled "The Inconvenient Truth," was published on the online message board 8chan about 20 minutes before the shooting, authorities said.

A man's SUV was stolen the day he held a funeral for his wife, who was killed in the El Paso massacre. Antonio Basco invited the public to his wife Margie Reckard's funeral in Texas because they had no other family. He just buried his wife yesterday and now this...." was one comment on Facebook. Now, a local car dealership has come to the rescue and plans to give Basco a vehicle. RELATED STORIESMan Who Lost Wife in El Paso Shooting Sees Thousands of Strangers at Her MemorialLady Gaga Is Funding Classroom Projects in El Paso, Dayton and Gilroy in Wake of ShootingsEl Paso Walmart Manager 'Just Wanted to Save as Many People' During Shooting

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iStock/JOE CICAKPLANO, Texas - A Dallas area high school has canceled its game next month against an El Paso area high school over safety concerns in the wake of the shooting at an El Paso Walmart. The Plano Independent School District announced the cancellation of the second annual out-of -district matchup between Plano Senior High School and Eastwood High School in a Thursday news release. On August 3, a 21-year-old man is suspected to have walked into an El Paso Walmart armed. The game was set to take place September 6 at Plano Senior High School, near Dallas. "Our entire school community felt strongly about showing love and support for the people of El Paso, and I am grateful for the opportunity to continue that outreach," Plano Senior High School Principal Sarah Watkins said.

One man said he felt compelled to drive to El Paso to help any way he could. EL PASO, Texas - Hundreds of people packed into Southwest University Park baseball stadium in El Paso Wednesday night to remember the 22 people killed in an August 3 shooting at a Walmart. "It is up to us not to let the world forget who they were," El Paso Mayor Dee Margo said. The 21-year-old suspect in the shooting told police he targeted Mexicans when he walked into the El Paso Walmart and began firing. In the wake of the attack El Paso attack, which killed eight Mexican nationals, Mexico's government said it considers the incident an act of terrorism against Mexican citizens.