Quotes About El Paso

Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.

I went to school with a lot of kids whose fathers and mothers were part of the El Paso black history.

He had not been in El Paso for years, and they had developed it considerably since then, he'd heard, along the lines of sin and salvation. They had churches and a Republican or two and a smart of banks and a symphony orchestra and five railroads and a lumberyard and the makings of a library. So much for sin. On the side of salvation they had ninety-some saloons, just shy of one for every hundred citizens, although municipal goodyism had moved the gambling rooms out back or upstairs.

They rode out on the north road as would parties bound for El Paso but before they were even quite out of sight of the city they had turned their tragic mounts to the west and they rode infatuate and half fond toward the red demise of that day, toward the evening lands and the distant pandemonium of the sun.

peaceful and salubrious El Paso

Operation Hold the Line in 1993 in the El Paso sector.

Operation Hold the Line in 1993 in the El Paso sector. "The idea was to put a huge number of Border Patrol agents in urban areas

Thousands of Mexicans, all with visas or US passports, crossed the border daily to work or shop in El Paso.

In an uncommon move, a young US Border Patrol officer in El Paso, Francisco Cantú, disenchanted with his job, quit to become an activist on border abuses.

El Paso is where I started. I don't feel like I'd be making the music I'm making now if I hadn't gone there.

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.