Public attention has moved, but the news hasn’t: The separated families on the border are still waiting to be reunited.
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Families Divided
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.
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Higher Education
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Though the Trump administration rescinded Obama-era guidelines encouraging colleges to factor race into admissions, it doesn’t force campuses to change their policies.
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Texas Elections 2018
#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.
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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.
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Families Divided
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.
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Families Divided
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.
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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.
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Families Divided
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.
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Immigration
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.
