President Donald Trump is making a trip to the United States’ border with Mexico on Thursday. It wasn’t immediately clear whether he would visit Texas.
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Politics
After years of Trump’s dire warnings, a “crisis” has hit the border but generates little urgency
A political stalemate over the president’s border wall plan makes small-bore immigration fixes more remote.
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Immigration
As ICE releases hundreds of migrants en masse in El Paso, local shelter eyes more beds
Immigration shelters in the El Paso area are trying to expand capacity as the federal government released hundreds of migrants this week with no place to go and without warning.
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Immigration
Tornillo facility for migrant kids will remain open into 2019, federal government confirms
The facility, which critics have called a “tent city” and sits on a remote port of entry, was opened in June to house mainly unaccompanied minors who crossed the border without parents or guardians
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Immigration
Trump administration: Deal reached to force asylum seekers to wait in Mexico as cases are processed
The United States has been in negotiations with Mexico for weeks to reach such an accord, believing that illegal crossings will decline if Central Americans believe the asylum system will no longer offer them a way to avoid deportation.
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The Taking
In the Rio Grande Valley, plans for a border wall ignite fight between church and state
The Catholic Diocese of Brownsville is resisting the government’s efforts to take over the historic chapel that gave Mission its name. And a man known as the “cowboy priest” finds himself at the center of a national debate with local implications.
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Immigration
Family of 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in federal custody speak out, call for “objective and thorough investigation”
“Premature and inaccurate statements undermine the integrity of the investigation,” attorneys for the family of Jakelin Caal Maquin said in a statement Saturday.
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Immigration
7-year-old migrant girl taken into Border Patrol custody dies of dehydration, exhaustion
The Guatemalan child was taken into custody last week after crossing from Mexico into the United States illegally with her father and a large group of migrants along a remote span of New Mexico desert
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The Taking
Hidalgo County sues former employee and engineering firm involved in border fence project
The South Texas county filed suit against Godfrey Garza Jr. and the high-profile Houston-based Dannenbaum Engineering on Wednesday.
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Immigration
With federal agents redeployed to manage migrant caravan, Texas border-crossers expect long holiday waits
Keep calm and come on over. That’s the holiday message El Paso city and business officials are sending to their neighbors directly across the Texas-Mexico border.
