Border Patrol searches for missing 2-year-old girl in Rio Grande
The girl's mother said her daughter was swept away as they tried to cross the river near Del Rio. Full Story
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![Luis from Honduras holds his three year old son Eduardo as they walk through a field after illegally crossing the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico in Penitas on November 7, 2018.]()
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John Wray announces he will not seek reelection
Wray has served in the Texas House since 2015, representing a district that includes Ellis County and parts of Henderson County. Full Story
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![State Rep. John Wray, R-Waxahachie, visits with Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham, on May 22, 2017.]()
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Analysis: Three vying for the presidential nomination — and Texas bragging rights
At first, Beto O'Rourke looked like the Texas favorite in the Democratic presidential contest. And Julián Castro made a bid for that unofficial title after the first debates. But there's a third Texan seeking that nomination, named Marianne Williamson. Full Story
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With conflicting budget estimates, will Texas teachers get the pay raises they anticipated?
Many school districts are seeing smaller gains from the state's school finance law than they predicted. Teachers are fighting to get bigger raises anyway. Full Story
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Homeland Security report: Tensions rising in overcrowded migrant detention facilities
The Homeland Security Department's Office of Inspector General visited five Border Patrol facilities in South Texas last month and found "dangerous overcrowding and prolonged detention of children and adults." Full Story
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2020 census will not include citizenship question, DOJ confirms
The decision to back away from the controversial question was a victory for civil rights advocates. Full Story
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![A protester holds a sign outside the U.S. Supreme Court where the court ruled that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration did not give an adequate explanation for its plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, delivering a victory to New York state and others challenging the proposal in Washington, U.S., June 27, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria]()
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Why homelessness is going down in Houston but up in Dallas
Although the view on the streets might tell a different story, Houston decreased its homeless population by 54% since 2011, according to an annual census. In Dallas, the trend is the opposite — and housing affordability might make the problem even worse. Full Story
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![Women line up outside Austin Street Center, an emergency homeless shelter serving Dallas, a little after 1 p.m. on June 25, 2019. Intake time is 2 p.m. for women and 4.p.m. for men, and, according to staff, it reaches or nears its capacity of 400 beds every day. They coordinate with other Dallas area shelters to find additional beds if needed.]()
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Members of Congress visit migrant detention centers in Texas hours after report revealed offensive comments by Border Patrol agents
More than a dozen U.S. House members visited migrant detention centers in Texas on Monday on the heels of a report revealing current and former Border Patrol agents joking on Facebook about throwing burritos at the visiting officials. Full Story
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Watch: Inside a Mexican shelter where migrants wait months for a chance to enter America
The Texas Tribune visited a migrant shelter in Reynosa, Mexico, to investigate another aspect of the ongoing border crisis: migrants from around the world crowding into Mexican border towns as they wait for a chance to claim asylum in the U.S. Full Story
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At a crowded Mexican shelter, migrants wait months to claim asylum. Some opt to cross the river instead.
The Senda de Vida shelter in Reynosa is over capacity, filled with migrants and refugees from around the world. U.S. officials will only let a handful at a time cross the border. Full Story
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![Vanessa Ramos Chavez rests in a tent at Senda de Vida migrant shelter in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. She arrived to the shelter from El Salvador with her baby, Anderson Josue. The pair have been at the shelter for over a month. June 29, 2019.]()
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National media outlets told the story of David Briscoe surviving the Santa Fe shooting. He wasn’t there.
A man who claimed he was a substitute teacher at Santa Fe High during the 2018 shooting told a harrowing story of survival. But the school district says he never worked there. Full Story
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![People outside a middle school set up as a reunion point for parents and students in Santa Fe, Texas on Friday, March 18, 2018 after a gunman killed 10 people at Santa Fe High School.]()
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Analysis: The family separation crisis peaked more than a year ago. Conditions at the border are still terrible.
Last summer, public attention and outrage prompted the Trump administration to back off its zero-tolerance immigration policy. Attention waned, but the federal government's ineffective border policies have drawn the public eye once again. Full Story
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![Families outside a tent at a temporary migrant holding area set up by Customs and Border Protection under the Paso del Norte International Port of Entry between Juarez and El Paso, on March 27, 2019.]()
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After debate, O’Rourke scrambles to shore up immigration credentials
The Democratic presidential candidate, sharply challenged on his signature issue Wednesday night, spent the next few days working to show his bona fides. Full Story
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After debate skirmish, Castro, O’Rourke host dueling events in Austin
The two Democratic presidential candidates rallied supporters at events minutes apart Friday evening, with Castro seeking to lay claim to favorite-son status. Full Story
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![Presidential candidate and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro speaks to supporters at a rally in Austin on June 28, 2019. Fellow Texan and former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, also a candidate for president, held a rally an hour earlier and less than a mile away.]()
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Texas lawmaker files bill to allow donations of diapers, other goods to migrant kids in Border Patrol facilities
A bill filed Friday by U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin, would allow Border Patrol to accept donations from those wanting to give to children at stations in Texas. Full Story
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![From left: Meagan O'Toole-Pitts, Mark Cortez, holding his son Oliver, Ashley Cortez and Austin Savage attempt to deliver diaper and toys to an immigrant detention center in Clint on June 24, 2019. The facility is currently housing an estimated 250 children.]()
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No toothbrushes or showers, kids coughing all night: Migrants describe conditions inside border facilities
The Tribune interviewed more than a dozen migrants after their release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities. The conditions they described ranged from livable to horrible. Full Story
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Federal judge rules against Formosa Plastics in pollution case, calling company a "serial offender"
The judge determined this week that the Taiwanese-owned company has been in "enormous" violation of its state-issued permits and federal clean water laws for discharging plastic pellets and other pollutants into Lavaca Bay and other waterways from its plant in Point Comfort. Full Story
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![Ronnie Hamrick points out the plastic pellets he collected with a swift scoop of his small net at Point Comfort on March 20, 2019.]()
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Supreme Court to review DACA program protecting young undocumented immigrants
The Supreme Court would likely render its verdict during the 2020 presidential election year. Full Story
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June has been a deadly month for migrants crossing the border into Texas
As migrants continue arriving at the Texas-Mexico border, drownings have spiked in recent weeks, with nine people dying in El Paso-area canals this month alone. Border Patrol and soldiers have rescued others. Full Story
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![At the historic La Lomita Chapel in Mission, Rio Grande Valley residents held an early-morning vigil for migrants who drowned attempting to cross the Rio Grande, on June 28, 2019.]()
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Watch: A conversation with Cecile Richards
Watch Texas Tribune Editor-in-Chief Emily Ramshaw interview Cecile Richards, co-founder of Supermajority, about women's political advocacy, abortion rights and the Democratic presidential lineup. Full Story
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