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El Paso Oilfield & Auto Accident Attorney, Legal Representation Service Enhanced
Reyna Law Firm (915-975-7077) has introduced timely enhancements to its personal injury legal services for victims of oilfield disasters and vehicle accidents in El Paso, Texas.
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Following a devastating injury, individuals often find themselves replaying the incident in their minds, contemplating what actions could have altered the outcome. While the past remains unchangeable, there lies the potential for a substantial compensation settlement in the future. With the support of the Reyna Law Firm, one can assertively confront those accountable for the ensuing pain and suffering.
Reyna Law Firm’s ability to help victims of injuries extends to El Paso and its surroundings. As a pivotal player in the oil extraction industry in the area, the multitude of oilfields in West Texas attracts laborers from across the state. Regrettably, the frequency of accidents at these sites is notably high, with safety concerns often resulting in severe injuries. Legal services become a crucial resource in such instances.
For those who have suffered injuries at these locations during the course of their work or otherwise, reaching out to Reyna Law Firm is appropriate. With the prevalence of explosions, blowouts, and gas leaks at refineries and pipelines, everyone in proximity is at risk. Therefore, the firm extends its services to both field workers and bystanders.
The firm’s expertise in personal injury cases also encompasses harm resulting from traffic accidents. Thus, Reyna Law Firm can help individuals injured on their way to oil sites or the neighboring areas. Significantly, the firm emphasizes a patient approach in the pursuit of justice, extending this advice to interactions with insurance providers.
In addressing individuals in this situation, Reyna Law Firm advises, “Insurance companies aim to abbreviate your settlement. Their primary goal is to maximize profits for their shareholders, often achieved
Consulate, nonprofits to provide legal aid to immigrants
Wage theft and run-ins with law enforcement are top concerns for families ‘living in the shadows’
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – It’s seven simple yet powerful words: “You have the right to remain silent.”
But that’s a phrase that many migrants who come to Melissa Lopez’s office have never heard of before. If they had, they would not be seeking help to avoid deportation or crushing another major legal problem.
“State law requires that a person show identification. But the migrants we see don’t know they have the right not to talk to the police; they think they are required to disclose all of their information,” said Lopez, the executive director of El Paso’s Diocesan Migrant and Refugee Services. “Most of the time, Immigration doesn’t have the information they need to deport you, but if you talk and give them that information, then they will.”
Lopez and DMRS are partners with the Mexican Consulate in El Paso in a weeklong crusade to educate the immigrant community here about their legal rights in the United States. Such rights apply regardless of immigration status.
The second annual External Legal Advice Week begins Monday, June 5, online and in person at the consulate on 910 E. San Antonio St. The talks will address information about fighting deportation, retaining custody of a child, filing domestic violence complaints, and your rights as a victim or a defendant in a criminal case.
“The goal is to inform the Mexican community and workers in El Paso of their legal rights and provide referrals to legal services outside the consulate,” said Consul General Mauricio Ibarra Ponce de Leon. “This is the second (year) of the program and will take place in 50 American cities where we have
US ready second attempt at speedy border asylum screenings
SAN DIEGO — President Joe Biden scrapped expedited asylum screenings during his first month in office as part of a gutting of Trump administration border polices that included building a wall with Mexico. Now he is preparing his own version.
Donald Trump’s fast-track reviews drew sharp criticism from internal government watchdog agencies as the percentage of people who passed those “credible fear interviews” plummeted. But the Biden administration has insisted its speedy screening for asylum-seekers is different: Interviews will be done exclusively by US Citizenship and Immigration Services, not by Border Patrol agents, and everyone will have access to legal counsel.
The decision to use fast-track screenings comes as COVID-19 asylum restrictions are set to expire on May 11 and the US government prepares for an expected increase in illegal crossings from Mexico. The Texas border cities of El Paso, Laredo and Brownsville have declared local states of emergency in recent days to prepare for the anticipated influx.
Normally, about three in four migrants pass credible fear interviews, though far fewer eventually win asylum. But during the five months of the Trump-era program, only 23% passed the initial screening, while 69% failed and 9% withdrew, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Those who get past initial screenings are generally freed in the United States to pursue their cases in immigration court, which typically takes four years. Critics say the court backlog encourages more people to seek asylum.
To pass screenings, migrants must convince an asylum officer they have a “significant possibility” of prevailing before a judge on arguments that they face persecution in their home countries on grounds of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a social group.
Under the Biden administration’s fast-track program, those who don’t qualify will be deported “in a matter of days or just
Jaime Esparza formally sworn in as US attorney for the Western District of Texas in El Paso
Jaime Esparza was formally sworn in Friday as the US attorney for the Western District of Texas.
The investiture ceremony was conducted at the Albert Armendariz Sr. US Courthouse, 525 Magoffin Ave., in Downtown El Paso.
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Esparza was sworn in by Chief US Judge for the Western District of Texas Alia Moses.
Esparza served as the district attorney for the 34th Judicial District of Texas, which includes El Paso, Hudspeth and Culberson counties, from 1993 to 2020.
US Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and US Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, spoke at the ceremony. Other dignitaries in attendance included Monsignor Arturo J. Bañuelas and poet and writer Benjamin Alire Sáenz, who read a poem at the ceremony.
This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: Esparza formally sworn in as Western District of Texas US attorney
Biden nominees 7 for US attorney, judge and marshal slots
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is putting forth seven new Justice Department and judicial nominations covering three US attorney’s offices in Texas and other senior posts. One is a prosecutor who vowed to seek the death penalty for a man who killed nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at a Walmart.
The nominations, announced by the White House on Friday, include three for US marshals in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Utah, along with a nomination of a longtime prosecutor to become a federal judge in Mississippi.
Among the nominations is that of Jaime Esparza, who had served as district attorney for El Paso County, Texas, from 1993 to 2020, to be the US attorney for the Western District of Texas. As district attorney, he secured a capital murder indictment and vowed to pursue the death penalty for Patrick Crusius, the North Texas man accused of targeting Mexicans during a 2019 mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart that left dozens wounded and eventually killed 23 people.
Crusius also faces federal hate crime charges, and if confirmed, Esparza would be a key figure in deciding whether to pursue the federal death penalty in the case. Ultimately that decision falls to senior Justice Department officials, generally based on the recommendation from the US attorney.
Biden has said he is opposed to the death penalty and has vowed to end its use while in office. Attorney General Merrick Garland has halted federal executions following an unprecedented run of capital punishment in the waning months of the Trump administration and ordered a review of the procedures and policies surrounding the practice. The moratorium applies only to executions and doesn’t prohibit prosecutors from seeking the death penalty.
Federal prosecutors in West Texas also face a consequential decision about whether to bring criminal