Angela Kocherga
Emmy winning multimedia journalist Angela Kocherga is news director with KTEP and Borderzine. She is also multimedia editor with ElPasoMatters.org, an independent news organization.
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In Texas, a controversial border crackdown known as "Operation Lone Star" has wrongfully targeted some U.S. citizens. One family in El Paso is seeking accountability and justice.
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Animal rights activists on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border are advocating for a giraffe named Benito who's living in a park in Juarez, Mexico to be moved to a proper zoo or wildlife sanctuary.
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Over six months after the shooting of migrants at a watering hole in West Texas, the men suspected in the case have not been charged. Residents want answers.
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U.S. egg prices are soaring. Even though it's illegal to bring raw eggs into the U.S., many people are going to Mexico to buy them. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on Jan. 27, 2023.)
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As the Supreme Court weighs extending pandemic border restrictions, Texas has sent National Guard troops to El Paso to turn migrants back to Mexico. But city officials say the guard isn't helping. -
Mexican authorities cleared the encampment where as many as a thousand Venezuelans have lived for weeks. The migrants wanted to stay there until they could apply for asylum in the U.S.
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More migrants are granted humanitarian exceptions to a pandemic public health order that effectively closed the Southern border. U.S. officials are working with NGOs to identify the most vulnerable. -
President Biden is telling migrants "don't come," as a humanitarian crisis grows at the U.S. border with Mexico. The administration is sending most people who cross the border back to Mexico.
