The standoff between the president and Congress that has led to a monthlong government shutdown has thrown DACA recipients in the middle of another round of political drama over immigration.
Julián Aguilar
Julián Aguilar reported for the Tribune from 2009 to 2021, most recently on politics and on the Texas-Mexico border. He focused on immigration reform and enforcement, voter ID, international trade, border security, and the drug trade. His political coverage has included local, legislative and congressional races in Texas, as well as local and national elections in Mexico. Before joining The Texas Tribune, he was a freelance writer for the Fort Worth Weekly, a government and crime reporter for the Laredo Morning Times, and a political writer for the Rio Grande Guardian. A native of El Paso, he has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Texas and a master's degree in journalism from the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas.
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Immigration
Shutdown over wall straining Border Patrol agents working overtime without pay
As the government shutdown approaches its fifth week, Border Patrol agents still roam the Rio Grande and the international bridges are still open. But some federal immigration proceedings have ground to a halt and thousands of hearings have been canceled.
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Politics
In the Rio Grande Valley, Trump’s visit to push for wall funding draws cheers and protests
Amid signs, shouts and waving flags, a veteran says Trump’s talk of the border as a war zone is overblown and an immigrant from Mexico says she supports the president’s push to protect the border.
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Immigration
Trump urges Democrats to fund border barrier, but stops short of ordering military to build it
In a televised address ahead of his trip to Texas, the president called border crossings a “humanitarian crisis.” But Trump didn’t declare an emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border as the weeks-long partial government shutdown continues amid his stalemate with Congress.
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Families Divided
Tornillo tent city for migrant teens is on the verge of shutting down
After six months of controversy and protests, the tent city erected near a desert port of entry will close after federal officials can find new accommodations for more than 800 unaccompanied minors who crossed the border illegally.
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Politics
President Trump to visit U.S.-Mexico border Thursday
President Donald Trump is making a trip to the United States’ border with Mexico on Thursday. It wasn’t immediately clear whether he would visit Texas.
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Immigration
As ICE releases hundreds of migrants en masse in El Paso, local shelter eyes more beds
Immigration shelters in the El Paso area are trying to expand capacity as the federal government released hundreds of migrants this week with no place to go and without warning.
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Immigration
Tornillo facility for migrant kids will remain open into 2019, federal government confirms
The facility, which critics have called a “tent city” and sits on a remote port of entry, was opened in June to house mainly unaccompanied minors who crossed the border without parents or guardians
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Politics
ICE dumps hundreds of migrants with nowhere to go at a bus station on eve of Christmas without warning shelters
Lawmakers and immigrant rights groups scramble after ICE releases hundreds of migrants without alerting local shelters.
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Immigration
Federal judge overturns White House policy on asylum seekers fleeing domestic or gang violence
A Washington D.C.-based judge ruled the policy, which was implemented by former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in June, went against standards set forth in the Immigration and Naturalization Act.
