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 project is designed to enhance safety for pedestrians, cyclists and transit riders in a neighborhood where many people don't drive.
Posted on · This is the second COVID-19 related death of immigrants detained at the Joe Corley Detention Facility, which has reported 50 COVID-19 cases among ICE detainees since the pandemic started.
Posted on · Two detainees who spoke to The Associated Press also said they were held in the same cramped dormitory as people with COVID-19 symptoms who later tested positive, raising new concerns about the spread of the coronavirus in immigration detention.
Posted on · The report surveyed more than 300 foreign-born and U.S.-born Latino students in Harris County and Rhode Island.
Posted on · Latinos make up 40% of the Texas population, yet they account for 52% of the COVID-19 fatalities in the state, according to the Department of State Health Services. Health experts attribute disparities to work demands, pre-existing conditions, misinformation, housing and uninsured rates.
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 · President Trump is trying limit the DACA program once again, in what is the latest milestone for "Dreamers" in their fight for protection against deportation.
Posted on · The Trump administration says it will deny new applications for so-called “Dreamer” immigrants and limit renewals to one year instead of two.
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 · In Southwest Houston, a Vietnamese American businessman received death threats and a boycott when he put up a bilingual Black Lives Matter billboard.
Posted on · The president is calling for unauthorized immigrants to be excluded from census numbers used to divide seats in Congress. The Constitution says the count must include every person living in the U.S.
Posted on · Detainees inside Texas immigrant detention centers are 15 times more likely to have COVID-19 than people in the state's general population, considering active cases. More than 1,200 have tested positive since the pandemic started.
Posted on · A federal judge announced on Tuesday that ICE has reached an agreement with schools that sued it over the rule change. The directive will now be rescinded nationwide.
Posted on · New federal rules will prohibit international students from completing fully online courses of study while in the U.S. Monday's announcement comes as more colleges release their plans for the fall.