The U.S. Justice Department said late Friday it agrees the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program should be terminated. That court filing came after Texas and six other states filed a lawsuit last month to end the 2012 program.
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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Apprehensions at Texas-Mexico border spiked in May
The number of family units who were apprehended or turned themselves in to border agents on the southwest border during the current fiscal year dipped slightly. But the number of families caught entering the country illegally at the southwest border last month increased sixfold compared with the same month in 2017.
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These veterans from Texas were deported. They say they deserve a second chance.
They can see the country they once served from a park in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. But a number of men who once wore a military uniform are barred from coming back after being deported to their native country.
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Criminal Justice
Texas-based attorneys push to end separation of families who enter U.S. illegally
A coalition of Texas-based attorneys filed an emergency request to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to order the United States to end the practice of family separation at the border.
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Demographics
Texas immigration case could play large role in family separations
In El Paso, attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union and representatives from the Border Network for Human Rights said a lawsuit that seeks to end family separations at the border could hinge, in part, on the case of a woman detained in 2017.
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Politics
Three Texas Democrats in Congress withhold support for debate of immigration legislation
U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar of Laredo, Filemon Vela of Brownsville and Vicente Gonzalez of McAllen are withholding their support for a bipartisan “discharge petition” that would bypass the committee process and force Congress to address the legal status of “Dreamers.”
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Environment
After anti-wall website launches on the border, Texas Farm Bureau fires off cease-and-desist letter
A new website created to stir up opposition to President Trump’s border wall has already caused one organization to threaten legal action. The website’s creators said that means their message is getting heard.
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Politics
Mexican journalist detained in Texas granted new asylum hearing
After a decade of seeking asylum, a Mexican reporter and his son have been granted a new asylum hearing. The pair has been detained in Texas since last December.
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Texas Elections 2018
Rep. René Oliveira’s DWI arrest front and center in House District 37 Democratic runoff
Democratic state Rep. René Oliveira almost avoided a runoff in the primary for House District 37, but his recent arrest on a charge of driving while intoxicated has given renewed momentum to challenger Alex Dominguez.
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Demographics
Judge allows group of “Dreamers” to formally fight Texas’ lawsuit to end DACA
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund can represent a group of young undocumented immigrants in opposing a lawsuit aimed at ending an Obama-era immigration program shielding people like them from deportation.
