More than a year after President Donald Trump ended the policy that led to widespread family separations, migrant advocates say the government continues separating children from parents for questionable reasons.
Riane Roldan
Riane Roldan was a reporting fellow at The Texas Tribune in 2019. She is a graduate of Emerson College, where she studied journalism and Latin American/Latinx studies. Before that, she received her associate's degree in mass communication from Miami Dade College. Riane has worked as an investigative reporter for Northwestern's Medill Justice Project, where she wrote about a Miami man who spent 12 years in prison for a murder he claimed he didn't commit. She speaks Spanish and was an intern for NPR affiliate WLRN in South Florida, where she covered the safety commissions created in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting.
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Asylum seekers will appear before judges via teleconferencing in tents as “Remain in Mexico” program expands to Laredo
Laredo’s mayor says U.S. Customs and Border Protection plans to build tents to hold asylum proceedings through “virtual courtrooms.”
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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Migrants’ deaths on the Rio Grande bring attention back to government asylum policy
Known as “metering,” the policy blocks migrants from crossing into the U.S. to claim asylum and forces them to wait in Mexico for extended periods.
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Migrant children moved from Border Patrol facility after reports of unsafe conditions
Hundreds of children have been moved from the facility in Clint to another Border Patrol facility in El Paso.
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Lawyer: Inside an immigrant detention center in South Texas, “basic hygiene just doesn’t exist”
The attorney said running water is so bad that mothers save any bottled water they can to mix baby formula. The stories she heard from people in the shelter echo tales at other facilities, where people say conditions are substandard.
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Report: Hundreds of migrant children held in Texas without proper food, water or medical attention
Lawyers told the Associated Press that a group of 250 children were living in dangerous and unsanitary conditions at a migrant detention facility outside of El Paso.
