The Obama administration has asked a Brownsville-based judge to rethink an order that requires the federal government to turn over the private information of thousands of undocumented immigrants.
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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Criminal Justice
As El Paso Sees Surge of Cuban Migrants, Calls for Policy Shift Grow Louder
As El Paso draws record numbers of Cubans seeking refuge, the city’s Democratic congressman said he favors repealing a decades-old provision that gives those migrants a special status here.
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Criminal Justice
Mexico OKs “El Chapo’s” Extradition to the U.S.
Mexican cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is one step closer to facing charges in the United States after Mexico’s secretariat of foreign relations said the Sinaloa cartel boss can be extradited.
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Criminal Justice
Judge Orders Ethics Classes for Justice Department Attorneys in Immigration Case
The Brownsville-based judge who halted President Obama’s 2014 executive action on immigration has decided that ethics classes are in order for the attorneys who defended the policy.
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Criminal Justice
Lawmakers Rebuke Library of Congress Over Dropping “Illegal Alien” Language
A trio of Texas Republican lawmakers says the U.S. Library of Congress is bowing to political pressure by eliminating the terms “illegal alien” and “alien” from its search and subject heading classifications.
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Criminal Justice
Push To Provide Lawyers for Immigrant Children Loses Steam
An ambitious effort by the state’s legal community to provide legal representation to immigrant children hasn’t had quite the impact some had hoped.
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Criminal Justice
Texas Judge on Trump’s List of Potential Supreme Court Candidates
Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett has made Donald Trump’s 11-person list of judges the real estate mogul would consider appointing to the U.S. Supreme Court if elected president.
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Criminal Justice
Federal Border Officials in El Paso Accused of Coercion, Abuse
Federal officials stationed on the Texas-Mexico border called legal border crossers “whores” and “criminals” and subjected others to unwarranted searches and coercion, according to a complaint a civil liberties group submitted to the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general Tuesday.
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Criminal Justice
Time Running Out for Newly Confirmed Ambassador to Mexico
After a months-long delay, veteran State Department official Roberta Jacobson was finally confirmed as the country’s next ambassador to Mexico, and her time could be limited as the Obama administration begins its final months.
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Bordering on Insecurity
Bexar Sheriff: ICE “Disingenuous” With Detainer Claims
Bexar County Sheriff Susan Pamerleau says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is being “disingenuous” by claiming in administrative records that her jail declined 11 “detainers” seeking custody of undocumented immigrants.
