Analyzing 2019: Unrest on the Texas-Mexico border
The immigration and humanitarian crisis continues at the Texas-Mexico border, where things have persistently been made worse by harsh government policies. Full Story
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![A group of migrants are detained by CBP near the Paso del Norte International Bridge on March 31, 2019.]()
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To relief of Texas business leaders, Congress reaches deal on new North American trade agreement
The United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement will replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. Full Story
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![Trucks wait in a long queue for border customs control to cross into U.S. at the World Trade Bridge in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico April 6, 2019. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril]()
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ACLU files suit to stop immigration pilot programs
The programs deny asylum seekers access to adequate counsel before key interviews with immigration officers, the lawsuit alleges. Full Story
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![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.]()
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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. Full Story
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![Flanked by security, workers at the Cielo Vista Walmart prepare for the store to reopen.]()
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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.]()
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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.]()
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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.]()
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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. Full Story
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Watch: Migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. are left to fend for themselves in Mexico
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
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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.]()
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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. Full Story
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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.]()
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During Trump's visit, El Paso residents criticized his divisiveness — and lawmakers' inaction on gun laws
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
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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.]()
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Mexican officials say El Paso massacre was terrorism aimed at their citizens — and vow to be part of investigation
The shooting, which killed 22 people, has reignited Mexican officials' criticism of what they consider lax U.S. gun laws. Full Story
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Border Patrol in El Paso reopens checkpoints
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
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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]()
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Doctors urge probe of child migrant deaths, warn "poor conditions" at border increase risk of spreading flu
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
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![Migrants are seen outside the U.S. Border Patrol McAllen Station in a makeshift encampment in on May 15, 2019.]()
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Trump says he has agreement with Guatemala to help stem flow of migrants at the border
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
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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.]()
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Number of detained migrant children without U.S. sponsors spikes, federal official says
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
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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.]()
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Trump administration will soon expand "remain in Mexico" policy for migrants to busiest part of the border
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. Full Story
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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.]()
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