A federal judge has ordered immigration officials to reunite all migrant children 5 and older with their parents by Thursday — but officials’ own data shows that will be near impossible.
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Families Divided
Rotten meat. Chicken pox. Tearful separations. Migrants describe their experience in federal custody.
In court filings, more than 200 migrants describe long waits for medical care, minimal access to legal services, verbal abuse from guards and untreated diaper rashes.
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Federal government has reunited 450 migrant children over 5, leaving 2,000 still separated
The government has a court-ordered deadline of July 26 to reunify the rest of the children. But last time it came up against a deadline, the government declared almost half the children “ineligible.”
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Politics
Senate confirms a top Abbott adviser, Andrew Oldham, to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals
Oldham is the third Texas nominee to be confirmed to the powerful, conservative-leaning appeals court since President Donald Trump took office.
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Families Divided
Judge temporarily blocks immediate deportations of reunited immigrant families
Parents should have time to make an “informed, non-coerced decision” about whether they want to leave the country with their children, the ACLU had argued.
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Families Divided
Brazilian asylum-seeker released after 11 months in detention and will soon see her grandson
Maria Vandelice de Bastos, who was detained and separated from her disabled grandson after they sought asylum at a port of entry last year, has been released from federal custody. But her ordeal is far from over after an immigration judge dismissed her asylum case.
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Criminal Justice
Federal judge wants to know if Mexican reporter and son were needlessly targeted by ICE
Emilio Gutiérrez Soto faced death threats for reporting on cartel crime and government corruption and fled to the U.S. with his son. A judge has set a hearing to determine whether the government has detained them in violation of the First Amendment.
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Families Divided
Trump officials want to give migrant families two options: Stay detained together or agree to separation
U.S. Department of Justice lawyers are seeking permission from a federal judge to offer separated immigrant families two options: remain together in family detention centers, or release kids while parents stay detained.
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Families Divided
Migrant mom makes difficult choice: Move farther from son for better chance at asylum
Claudia says she was one of several migrant women moved from an Austin-area detention facility to be closer to their children in South Texas. But Claudia wants to return to Central Texas, hundreds of miles from her 7-year-old son, where her lawyer thinks she has a better shot at being granted asylum.
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Guns chill free speech, UT-Austin professors will argue at federal appeals court
Three UT-Austin professors sued to end a state law mandating campus carry in Texas. Though a federal judge dismissed the suit, the fight isn’t over as the case goes to a federal appeals court.
