Posted on · Title 42, an emergency health order invoked at the start of the pandemic, allows immigration agents to quickly remove migrants from the country. It was scheduled to be lifted on Wednesday.
Posted on · The Border Patrol recorded nearly 1.7 million apprehensions last year, eclipsing the record set in 2000. Still, the number of migrants crossing illegally is likely far below the all-time high.
Posted on · Texas officials say they are seeing a "historic surge" in migration along the southern border. Thousands of new arrivals from Haiti are straining an already overstretched effort to deal with them.
Posted on · Their mother has been located in the United States and the goal is to reunite the girls, aged 3 and 5, with her.
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 · About 104,000 migrants were taken into custody after crossing the Southwest border — a 28% drop from May. The hot-weather drop "outpaces last year's decline by 11 percent," DHS said.
Posted on · The government wants to avoid the kind of scandal that occurred in Clint, Texas, where scores of immigrant children were warehoused together.
Posted on · John Sanders said in a message to CBP employees that he would resign on July 5.
Posted on · The four bodies were found southeast of Anzalduas Park in the Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area, south of McAllen.
Posted on · The new emergency facility is located in Carrizo Springs. It will hold 1,600 teens in a complex that once housed oil field workers on government-leased land near the border.
Posted on · A medical examiner says the teen's rapid deterioration raises questions about whether he may have had symptoms before the Border Patrol says he reported being sick.
Posted on · BCFS, a nonprofit provider in several Texas cities, says it will continue providing services because not doing so would violate state licensing standards.
Posted on · Research shows three months of slower trade at the US-Mexico border could lose Texas tens of billions of dollars.
Posted on · "There's no justice for the immigrant," Elvin said, after border officials wrote in legal documents that he had recently crossed the border. Despite having lived here for more than a decade, Elvin was detained for months and almost deported. Back in Houston, his pregnant wife spent their savings on legal aid while taking care of their two kids.
Posted on · On Thursday's Houston Matters: An official says the immigration system is at a "breaking point." Mike Pence wants NASA to return to the moon in five years. We discuss the college admissions system. And we preview the new Astros Hall of Fame.