As an El Paso shelter prepared to take in undocumented immigrants separated from their children, President Donald Trump’s tweets calling for deportations without due process drew rebukes.
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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Congressmen Beto O’Rourke, Joaquin Castro visit tent camp for immigrant children near El Paso
Joined by a senator from New Mexico, the two Texas congressmen got a short tour of the detention camp and said nearly 300 minors are there, including some whose parents have been deported to their home countries.
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Legal aid group trying to help immigrant children detained in Tornillo find their families
At the week-old immigration detention center for minors at the Tornillo port of entry near El Paso, a legal aid group is trying to reconnect parents and children because the government’s system for doing so “is a bit of a nightmarish process.”
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Mayors from across the country tried to visit a tent city holding immigrant children in Texas. They got no answers.
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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Meet the man going head-to-head with federal agents to help asylum-seeking immigrants cross the border
After initially being turned away at the border in El Paso, two families were allowed to enter the United States Wednesday to seek asylum with help from Ruben Garcia, the director of a local shelter who has made a practice of escorting immigrants across the bridge.
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Beto O’Rourke, Veronica Escobar lead Father’s Day march on tent city housing separated immigrant children
Days after a tent city went up near El Paso, demonstrators near the facility took aim at the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from parents seeking asylum.
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Trump administration opens tent city near El Paso to house separated immigrant children
A center for unaccompanied immigrant minors is up and running in West Texas, just one day after federal officials announced the location, state Rep. César Blanco confirmed to The Texas Tribune on Friday.
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A grandmother seeking asylum was separated from her disabled grandson at the border. It’s been 10 months.
Maria Vandelice de Bastos hasn’t seen her grandson for 10 months, since they crossed into New Mexico at a port of entry seeking asylum, according to her attorney. Her grandson has severe epilepsy and autism.
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Report: Trump administration considers Texas sites for tent cities for immigrant children
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is considering several Texas military bases as sites for tent cities to house thousands of immigrant children separated from their parents, per McClatchy.
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U.S. Attorney General: Victims of domestic or gang violence alone generally not eligible for asylum
“The mere fact that a country may have problems effectively policing certain crimes — such as domestic violence or gang violence … cannot itself establish an asylum claim,” U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions ruled Monday.
