Border

The Future of the Border Region

by Texas Tribune Events Staff

Join us in El Paso for a day full of conversations on the economic, political and cultural significance and evolution of the border region as part of our 10th Anniversary event series. Full Story 

Analyzing 2019: Unrest on the Texas-Mexico border

by Ross Ramsey

The immigration and humanitarian crisis continues at the Texas-Mexico border, where things have persistently been made worse by harsh government policies. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

Asylum-seeking migrants pushed farther south into Mexico, left to fend for themselves

by Jay Root

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story