They hailed from El Paso on the Texas side and Ciudad Juárez on the Mexican side of the border that bisects the sister cities, and people arrived at Memorial Park in El Paso well before the 10am kick-off. The shooter, from Allen, near Dallas, had driven more than nine hours across Texas to El Paso. Photograph: Paul Ratje/ReutersAs the shooting unfolded, Rivas said the bridges back to El Paso from Juárez closed down. Tornillo is the tiny town near El Paso where hundreds of migrant children had been detained in federal government tents. For Rivas the experiences of 2018 and 2019 felt like a series of attacks on El Paso.

Source: The Guardian August 03, 2020 11:37 UTC