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Human Rights groups are calling the immigration detention camp at Fort Bliss a human and civil rights disaster. They demand the federal government shut down the tent facility and warn living conditions are putting hundreds of people held there at risk.

President Biden’s executive order limits the number of unauthorized migrants seeking asylum when border crossings top 2,500 a day. The ACLU and an El Paso immigrant rights organization sued to block the order.

A coalition of 35 organizations kicked off a campaign against SB 4, Texas' new border enforcement law. A series of protests are scheduled to take place in major Texas cities over the next few weeks.