While announcing the number of migrants apprehended along America’s southern border, the Trump administration also warned that the one-month change does not signal that the influx of people crossing is over.
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A surge of migrants arriving at the Texas-Mexico border has pushed the country’s immigration system to the breaking point as new policies aimed at both undocumented immigrants and legal asylum seekers have contributed to a humanitarian crisis. The Texas Tribune is maintaining its in-depth reporting on this national issue with support from the Pulitzer Center.
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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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Analysis: Why would politicians fix our immigration problems when they can campaign off the mess?
Look at the immigration problem, at the issues on the border, at what lawmakers are doing in response and at the polling of what voters think. It looks like the fight might be more beneficial to the politicians than a solution would be.
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Joaquin Castro said he ignored requests to relinquish his phone to record video of detained migrants at border facility
“People have to speak up and they have to take action,” Castro said of his decision to release footage of women detained in an El Paso border facility. “This was about shining a light on what’s going on.”
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San Antonio and other Texas cities confront the spillover from the border migration crisis
With Border Patrol facilities overwhelmed, San Antonio’s hastily opened migrant center, housed in an old Quiznos, is seeing hundreds of migrants arriving daily, many without money or a place to go.
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Expansion of “remain in Mexico” policy brings tension, fear to border cities
In less than two months, the number of migrants sent to Ciudad Juárez under the program has swelled from 2,800 to 7,600. Human rights groups and a former Mexican government official say migrants aren’t safe in the border city.
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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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Watch: Inside a Mexican shelter where migrants wait months for a chance to enter America
The Texas Tribune visited a migrant shelter in Reynosa, Mexico, to investigate another aspect of the ongoing border crisis: migrants from around the world crowding into Mexican border towns as they wait for a chance to claim asylum in the U.S.
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At a crowded Mexican shelter, migrants wait months to claim asylum. Some opt to cross the river instead.
The Senda de Vida shelter in Reynosa is over capacity, filled with migrants and refugees from around the world. U.S. officials will only let a handful at a time cross the border.