Analysis: If kids separated from their parents can’t hold our attention, what will?
Public attention has moved, but the news hasn't: The separated families on the border are still waiting to be reunited. Full Story
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![Marcos Samayoa learns that his wife was detained and separated from their children as he waits on the international bridge between Brownsville and Matamoros, Mexico, on June 20, 2018.]()
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In McAllen, immigration isn’t a problem — it’s a way of life
The Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy is seen as unwanted and unfair in the border city of 142,000 that's home to the massive U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility where families crossing the border illegally have been separated. Full Story
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![Protesters demonstrate against the Trump administration's immigration policy in McAllen on Saturday, June 23, 2018.]()
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UT-Austin has no plans to drop affirmative action policy, despite new Trump administration guidelines
Though the Trump administration rescinded Obama-era guidelines encouraging colleges to factor race into admissions, it doesn't force campuses to change their policies. Full Story
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#AbolishICE? Texas Democrats begin to navigate emerging issue
Texas Democrats are finding their place in a quickly growing national debate over the usefulness of Immigration Customs and Enforcement — and whether it should be abolished. Full Story
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![State Sen. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston (center, white shirt), and state Rep. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston (yellow shirt), join others in downtown Houston on Saturday, June 30, to protest the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy and call for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) to be abolished.]()
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador wins Mexican presidential race
López Obrador, an anti-corruption crusader, has dominated polls this election season, riding a wave of anger about government corruption and record-breaking drug war violence. Full Story
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Trump administration plans to detain migrant families for months
The Trump administration plans to detain migrant families together in custody rather than release them, according to a new court filing that suggests such detentions could last longer than the 20 days envisioned by a court settlement. Full Story
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Abbott to Trump: Steel and aluminum tariffs will harm Texas oil and gas
Though he praised the nation's economic growth under President Donald Trump's leadership, Abbott urged the president to reconsider his tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Full Story
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Immigrant toddlers ordered to appear in court alone
As the White House faces court orders to reunite families separated at the border, immigrant children as young as 3 years old are being ordered into court for their own deportation proceedings, according to attorneys in Texas, California and Washington, D.C. Full Story
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![Immigrants who turned themselves in to border patrol agents after illegally crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. wait to be transported for processing in the Rio Grande Valley sector, near McAllen, Texas, on April 2, 2018.]()
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A viral Facebook fundraiser has generated more than $20 million for immigration nonprofit RAICES
Over the last week and a half, a Facebook fundraising page has generated more than $20 million for RAICES — three times the nonprofit's annual budget and more than 40 times what it raised in all of 2017. Full Story
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Federal judge blocks separation of migrant children, orders family reunification
A federal judge in San Diego on Tuesday barred the separation of migrant children from their parents and ordered immigration officials to reunify within 30 days families that have been divided. Full Story
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Feds remain mum on whether there is a plan to reunify parents and children who are seeking asylum
While officials on Tuesday provided more details on reuniting families who will be deported, it's not clear how — or if — they plan to reunify thousands who came to the U.S. seeking a safe haven from violent situations back home. Full Story
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Border official says agency isn't referring immigrant families for prosecution
Another federal official did say, however, that two Texas military bases will be used to house migrants. Full Story
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Most Texas Republicans think point of Mueller investigation is to discredit Trump, UT/TT Poll finds
What Texans think about the investigations in Russian interference in the 2016 elections has a lot to do with voters' partisan preferences. Full Story
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South Texas — already ground zero for immigrant family separations — hit with disaster-level flooding
Some migrants, unable to cross the border, have chosen to wait out the storms exposed on the bridges connecting the United States and Mexico. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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Melania Trump visits separated migrant children in McAllen, Texas
The first lady "supports family reunification" and wanted to meet separated children for herself, a spokesperson said. Full Story
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![First lady Melania Trump and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar (left) listen during a roundtable meeting at the Lutheran Social Services of the South's Upbring New Hope Children's Center in McAllen on June 21, 2018.]()
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This Texas nonprofit houses nearly half of America's undocumented children in custody
Austin-based Southwest Key Programs has been paid hundreds of millions of dollars to care for thousands of immigrant children in federal custody. Founder Juan Sanchez says about 10 percent of the children the nonprofit cares for were separated from their parents. Full Story
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Donald Trump reverses course, signs an executive order to stop separating families
Meanwhile, members of Congress are working on legislation to address the issue. Full Story
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![The tent city at Tornillo Port of Entry near El Paso on June 16, 2018. The facility was created to house immigrant children who were separated from their parents when they crossed the border.]()
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Texas House Speaker Joe Straus asks Trump to end policy of separating immigrant children
House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, wants President Donald Trump to end his administration's "zero tolerance" policy that has led to thousands of immigrant children being separated from their parents at the border. Full Story
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What's happening at the border? Here's what we know about immigrant children and family separations
More than 2,000 children have been separated from their families at the border. Here's the latest on what's happening at the border, in Washington and among Texas politicians. Full Story
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![Immigrant families seeking asylum in the United States wait on the Mexican side of the international bridge connecting Brownsville to Matamoros, Mexico.]()
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