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Posted on · Many border wall projects along the Texas-Mexico border have been met with controversy, including one next to a historic cemetery in the Rio Grande Valley.
Posted on · The Trump administration announced this week that it will not expel migrant children and parents who were being held at the Hampton Inn Hotel and Suites in McAllen.
Posted on · The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t stopped some people, including those seeking asylum, from crossing into the U.S. at its southern border.
Posted on · Hundreds of asylum-seekers are not getting a chance to make their case in U.S. immigration court. Instead, the migrants are put on planes to Guatemala and told to ask for asylum there.
Posted on · “It’s difficult to be in a situation where you’re looking for security for yourself and you’re still in the same difficult situation you were in back home."
Posted on · On Sunday evening, vigils took place in border towns to remember a father and daughter who died last week attempting to cross over to the United States rather than waiting in migrant camps in Mexico.
Posted on · The Department of Homeland Security has expanded its border detention facilities in Texas with the opening of two new tent-like structures, which were completed this week.
Posted on · Kirstjen Nielsen is scheduled to meet with more than two dozen sheriffs in McAllen.
Posted on · A decade ago, dozens of Texas landowners fought the federal government's efforts to build a wall on their land. Those battles are beginning again as new walls are planned for the Rio Grande Valley.
Posted on · "We'll try to bring joy, positivity, beauty, drag, culture to whatever this is," Beatrix Lestrange said, pointing to the section of the border fence directly behind her.
Posted on · Eleven of the detainees refusing food, some for more than a month, are in custody at the El Paso Processing Center.