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To relief of Texas business leaders, Congress reaches deal on new North American trade agreement

by J. Edward Moreno

The United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement will replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.

A Mexican Soldier patrols the makeshift migrants camp at the base of Paso del Norte International Bridge in Ciudad Juarez on Oct. 3, 2019. Migrants wait close to the port of entry so they won't lose their spot in line to legally cross into the U.S. and seek asylum.

ACLU files suit to stop immigration pilot programs

by Julián Aguilar

The programs deny asylum seekers access to adequate counsel before key interviews with immigration officers, the lawsuit alleges.

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Flanked by security, workers at the Cielo Vista Walmart prepare for the store to reopen.

As Walmart reopens, El Pasoans are still grappling with mass shooting's aftermath

by Julián Aguilar

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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Voters are worried about leadership, border issues, health care and guns, UT/TT Poll finds

by Ross Ramsey

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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A U.S. border patrol agent stands at the limit of the U.S. and Mexico border in Eagle Pass. Concertina wire can be seen to the left of the officer. Feb. 8, 2019.

Trump's controversial "remain in Mexico" immigration policy expands along Texas' southern border

by Julián Aguilar

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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Federal government awards three contracts for 65 new miles of border fencing in South Texas

by Acacia Coronado

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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Ordered under the George W. Bush administration, a controversial incomplete border wall along the Rio Grande River in South Texas has had environmental and cultural impacts.

Watch a 2019 Texas Tribune Festival conversation about 2020 and the border

by Texas Tribune Staff

In this discussion, panelists focused on how border and immigration policy and politics are shaping the 2020 landscape.

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Idalia Yamileth Herrera Hernandez and her 21-month-old son Iker Gael Cordova Herrera died while attempting to cross the Rio Grande into Texas.

This migrant mother and her child couldn't wait for their asylum court date anymore. They drowned trying to enter the U.S.

by Stacy Fernández

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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Immigrant families seeking asylum in the United States wait on the Mexican side of the international bridge connecting Brownsville to Matamoros, Mexico.

As violence increases, more Mexicans are waiting in Ciudad Juárez to apply for asylum

by Julián Aguilar

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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A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol boat heads south in the Rio Grande River between Hidalgo and Los Ebanos in Hidalgo County, TX on routine patrol August 25, 2007. Texas lawmen engaged Mexican drug smugglers in a border gunbattle on June 9, 2011.

Border Patrol agents were fired upon early Friday morning, the agency reported

by Julián Aguilar

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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A young girl stands on a chair in the dining hall at Casa INDI on Aug. 5, 2019. The Mexican government has been busing migrants to Monterrey from Nuevo Laredo.

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.

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A group of migrants rests on the floor of the Casa INDI in Monterrey. The site was originally intended to function as a shelter for the homeless and people with addictions, but it now hosts a large population of migrants. Aug. 6, 2019.

Watch: Migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. are left to fend for themselves in Mexico

by Miguel Gutierrez Jr. and Jay Root

Migrants have been bused to Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, under the Trump administration's “Remain in Mexico” program, a partnership with the Mexican government.

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Mary Lou Parker protests President Donald Trump's visit four days after a mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso.

During Trump's visit, El Paso residents criticized his divisiveness — and lawmakers' inaction on gun laws

by Julián Aguilar

Anger and frustration about gun laws — and president's racist language — is becoming more apparent in a city still dealing with grief from what police have said is a racially motivated massacre.

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Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard.

Mexican officials say El Paso massacre was terrorism aimed at their citizens — and vow to be part of investigation

by Julián Aguilar

The shooting, which killed 22 people, has reignited Mexican officials' criticism of what they consider lax U.S. gun laws.

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The Border Patrol is seen along the border fence between El Paso and Juarez on Sunday, February 10, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. Photo by Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The Texas Tribune

Border Patrol in El Paso reopens checkpoints

by Julián Aguilar

Some of the checkpoints were temporarily closed in March after Border Patrol said it needed to pull agents from those posts to help process, detain and care for the surge of undocumented immigrants crossing into the country.

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Migrants are seen outside the U.S. Border Patrol McAllen Station in a makeshift encampment in on May 15, 2019.

Doctors urge probe of child migrant deaths, warn "poor conditions" at border increase risk of spreading flu

by Robert Moore, The Washington Post

The doctors have sounded an alarm to Congress after the deaths of six children who were in government custody over the past year.

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President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the humanitarian crisis on the Southern border and the shutdown at the White House in Washington, D.C. on January 19, 2019.

Trump says he has agreement with Guatemala to help stem flow of migrants at the border

by Abigail Hauslohner, Kevin Sieff and Seung Min Kim, The Washington Post

The announcement comes just days after Trump threatened retaliation against Guatemala as discussions stalled over designating the Central American nation as a country where migrants on their journey to the United States would be directed to first seek asylum.

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Two young children are seen inside a temporary migrant holding area setup by CBP under the Paso del Norte International port of entry between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso on March 27, 2019.

Number of detained migrant children without U.S. sponsors spikes, federal official says

by Riane Roldan

The Office of Refugee Resettlement's director told CBS News that thousands of unaccompanied migrant children could be held longer — some past their 18th birthdays — because they don't have U.S. sponsors.

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A group of migrants wait at a small plaza near the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Tamualipas. The group is waiting to ask for asylum in the United States.

Trump administration will soon expand "remain in Mexico" policy for migrants to busiest part of the border

by Jay Root

It started in California, on the western edge of the southern border. Now officials say the controversial “remain in Mexico” program, which sends asylum-seeking migrants back across the border to await their fate, could soon hit the other end: Brownsville.

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A group of Cuban migrants look at the list of asylum seekers near the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

"All we want is for them to listen to us": In Mexico, Trump's latest asylum policy stirs anger, fear and confusion

by Julián Aguilar and Jay Root

The Trump administration's new policy aimed at disqualifying most asylum seekers is stirring anger and resentment among migrants who have waited months to present themselves at a port of entry.

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