Immigration
43 Percent Of Houston-Area Children Have An Immigrant Parent
Posted on · The share of children with an immigrant parent is slowly increasing in Texas and nationwide.
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Thousands of Children Still Live in Texas Shelters after End of ‘Zero Tolerance’
Posted on · New data shows the number of children held in privately run shelters in Texas remains higher than normal
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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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Worker Charged in 2017 with Sexually Molesting 8 Children at Southwest Key Immigrant Shelter
Posted on · The alleged incidents are part of a series of accusations of sexual abuse inside the government’s immigrant youth shelters
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How Can The Federal Government Reunify Kids with Deported Parents? First Step: Find Them
Posted on · As an official with the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency put it, “we don’t keep track of individuals once they’ve been deported to foreign countries”
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The Number Of Immigrant Children Held In Texas Is Up, Despite Reunifications
Posted on · Private shelter operators want to open as many as four new facilities to accommodate the continued influx of children.
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Trump Administration Reunites 57 Immigrant Children Under 5, Declares ‘Eligible’ Reunifications Complete
Posted on · Officials say that dozens more "tender age" separated children aren't immediately eligible to be reunified with their parents. Meanwhile, more than 2,000 children over the age of 5 remain separated ahead of a July 26 deadline to be reunited.
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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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Next To A Shelter Holding Immigrant Children, Church’s Congregants Defend Family Separations
Posted on · Congregants at Harlingen's Lighthouse Fellowship Church — located just yards away from one of the largest shelters for immigrant children in Texas — said the president was right to split up families who entered the country illegally.
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What’s Happening At The Border? Here’s What We Know About Immigrant Children And Family Separations
Posted on · More than 2,000 children have been separated from their families at the border. Here's the latest on what's happening at the border, in Washington and among Texas politicians.
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Immigrant Toddlers Ordered To Appear In Court Alone
Posted on · As the White House faces court orders to reunite families separated at the border, immigrant children as young as three years old are being ordered into court for their own deportation proceedings, according to attorneys in Texas, California and Washington, D.C.
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HHS Inspector General Examining Migrant Shelters
Posted on · A judge has ordered those children reunited with their parents.
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Sens. Ted Cruz And John Cornyn Tour Shelters Housing Immigrant Children Separated From Families
Posted on · The state's Republican senators reaffirmed their commitment to keeping kids with their parents after they cross the border — so long as future immigration policy better deters people from entering the country illegally.
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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.
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Immigrant Children Allege Abuse At Virginia Detention Center
Posted on · Multiple detainees say the guards stripped them of their clothes and strapped them to chairs with bags placed over their heads