Immigration
Guatemalan Migrant Dies After Being Apprehended At The Texas-Mexico Border
Posted on · The Guatemalan teenager, who hasn’t been identified, was found unresponsive Monday morning at the Border Patrol station in Weslaco.
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Temporary Immigration Detention Facilities To Open In El Paso, Rio Grande Valley
Posted on · Construction of the facilities, commonly referred to as a “tent cities” is a response to the ongoing crush of migrants, mainly from Central America, who continue to cross into Texas after traveling through Mexico.
Politics
Beto O’Rourke No Longer Ruling Out 2020 Presidential Run
Posted on · U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, said at a town hall in El Paso Monday that he and his wife had "made a decision not to rule anything out."
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Detention Center for Immigrant Children in West Texas Will Remain Open through Mid-September
Posted on · The immigration detention facility for undocumented immigrant minors in Tornillo will remain open another month, officials confirmed Friday.
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A Tale of Revenge And Immigration Leaves A Mother of American Kids Locked Up in Texas
Posted on · A mother of three U.S. citizens says she believed all her life she was an American, But after she helped put away a relative who sexually abused her child, her life unraveled
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DACA Back in Court Next Month as Texas Moves to End Program
Posted on · After President Trump vowed to phase out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which protects immigrants brought into the U.S. as children from deportation, federal courts stepped in — and Texas is suing to end the program
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Mexican Reporter And Son Released from Immigration Detention in Texas
Posted on · Emilio Gutiérrez Soto and his son Oscar spent seven months in federal detention
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Dozens Of Groups Ask Trump Administration For More Time To Comment On Border Wall
Posted on · The allegations come as the Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to build at least 33 miles of wall or other barriers in the Rio Grande Valley
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Tornillo Detention Center For Immigrant Children Will Remain Open At Least Another Month
Posted on · The immigration detention center, which held more than 300 minors two weeks ago, will remain open at least through Aug. 13, according to a federal agency.
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Cruz Suggests Mexico’s Election Of ‘Far-Left Socialist’ López Obrador Means U.S. Needs A Border Wall
Posted on · U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 64, had been running on an “anti-American campaign for a long, long time.”
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Mexico’s New President Is Promising Big Changes; Will That Affect Trade With Texas?
Posted on · Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, or AMLO, won big on Sunday. Now Texan business and agriculture have five months to try to predict whether his expected stand-up-to-Trump strategy will hurt their bottom lines.
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Judge Rules Trump Administration Can’t Arbitrarily Detain Asylum Seekers
Posted on · President Donald Trump’s administration’s practice of indefinitely detaining some asylum seekers can’t proceed, a federal district judge has ruled.
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Operator Of Migrant Facility In Tornillo Says It Might Not Stay Open Past July 13 When Contract Expires
Posted on · An official with the company operating the facility slammed the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy as a "dumb, stupid decision."
Immigration
Confusion, Tension Roil Texas-Mexico Border As Federal Government Attempts To Reunify Immigrant Families
Posted on · As an El Paso shelter prepared to take in undocumented immigrants separated from their children, President Trump's tweets calling for deportations without due process drew rebukes.
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Mayors From Across The Country Tried To Visit A Tent City Holding Immigrant Children In Texas; They Got No Answers
Posted on · A Thursday trip by a group of mayors yielded no new information about what, if anything, will change inside the detention center for immigrant children after President Donald Trump's executive order to end family separations.