El Paso
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The new restriction comes after federal aviation officials shut down the airspace over El Paso, Texas, earlier this month in response to CBP’s use of a high-energy laser weapon.
The agency this month has twice shut down airspace near the U.S.-Mexico border, most recently after the military mistakenly shot down a Customs and Border Protection drone near El Paso.
From Los Angeles Times
The native Texan was born in El Paso, but spent the first few years of her life just across the Mexican border in Ciudad Juárez.
From Los Angeles Times
Rep. Veronica Escobar, an El Paso Democrat who has visited the site at least a half dozen times, said the conditions at East Montana are rapidly “deteriorating.”
From Salon
Nanos began his career in the El Paso, Texas, police department before joining the Pima County Sheriff’s Department in 1984 as a corrections officer, according to a biography on the department website.
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