The El Paso City Council’s vote today kicked off city efforts to prevent any new Immigration Customs and Enforcement facilities from being built within city limits.

Contract negotiations between the city, county, Deck Plaza Foundation and Texas Department of Transportation over the development and design of a deck atop Interstate 10 at Downtown are underway.

Two El Paso City Council representatives have sponsored a discussion item for next week’s meeting over how to keep ICE from opening more detention centers within city limits. An El Paso judge recused herself from cases involving migrant children after attorneys alleged she displayed prejudice against them in court.

City and County officials touted a decrease in traffic fatalities by 24 percent since local law enforcement agencies increased efforts to deter impaired driving. The Village of Vinton broke ground on the Water and Sewer Phase III Project.

The federal government has agreed to hold off on deporting two men who say they witnessed a death at the detention camp in El Paso. The Texas Rangers are investigating the death of a federal inmate who was held at the downtown jail.

An El Paso family sued the city and over 10 police officers in federal court over a high profile arrest that ended in the death of a man last year. The county medical examiner’s office determined the cause of Hernandez’s death was homicide due to asphyxia from chest compression during law enforcement subdual.

The El Paso County medical examiner has ruled the cause of death of a Cuban man at the immigration detention camp a homicide. 55 year-old Gerlado Lunas Campos is among three people who’ve died in custody in the last two months at the tent facility.

We’re learning more about the Department of Homeland Security’s plan to expand detention space across the country. El Paso's Congresswoman Veronica Escobar says a private company received nearly $30 million from the federal government to design the new centers and the project includes another facility in El Paso.

El Paso Congresswoman Veronica Escobar said Immigration and Customs Enforcement will have a new detention facility in East El Paso County. Escobar said a private corporation received nearly $30 million dollars through a no-bid federal contract to increase detention space including another facility.

ICE is reporting another death at the massive detention camp here in El Paso. A Nicaraguan man is the third person to die in custody at the tent facility run by a private contractor.