The programs deny asylum seekers access to adequate counsel before key interviews with immigration officers, the lawsuit alleges.
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Criminal Justice
As Walmart reopens, El Pasoans are still grappling with mass shooting’s aftermath
The store where a gunman killed nearly two dozen people and shot dozens more in August opened its doors Thursday, setting off a wave of mixed emotions in a community still grieving.
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University of Texas/Texas Tribune Polls
Voters are worried about leadership, border issues, health care and guns, UT/TT Poll finds
National leadership and border issues top the list of voter concerns about the country; at home, it’s the border and gun control, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Immigration
Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” immigration policy expands along Texas’ southern border
The Migrant Protection Protocols, a program requiring migrants to wait in Mexico as their asylum requests are pending, is in effect in Eagle Pass, El Paso, Laredo and Brownsville.
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Politics
Federal government awards three contracts for 65 new miles of border fencing in South Texas
The cost of the new fencing will range between $385 million and $800 million. Construction is set to begin in early 2020.
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The 2019 Texas Tribune Festival
Watch a 2019 Texas Tribune Festival conversation about 2020 and the border
In this discussion, panelists focused on how border and immigration policy and politics are shaping the 2020 landscape.
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Broken Border
This migrant mother and her child couldn’t wait for their asylum court date anymore. They drowned trying to enter the U.S.
The Honduran mother and son were found dead in the Rio Grande in Texas last week. They were sent to wait in Mexico while their asylum case played out in U.S. immigration court.
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As violence increases, more Mexicans are waiting in Ciudad Juárez to apply for asylum
Mexicans fleeing violence in their home states are joining Central Americans in the wait to seek asylum in the United States.
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Border Patrol agents were fired upon early Friday morning, the agency reported
Agents from the Rio Grande City Station Marine Unit were patrolling near the town of Fronton when the shots came from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, according to the agency.
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Broken Border
Asylum-seeking migrants pushed farther south into Mexico, left to fend for themselves
Migrants have been bused to Monterrey and, they say, Chiapas under an ever-changing and often brutal “remain in Mexico” program. The policy is being carried out up and down the border by the Trump Administration in a controversial partnership with the Mexican government.
