A coalition of civil and immigrant rights groups on Friday asked an appeals court to stop a federal judge’s order that requires the Obama administration to turn over the confidential information of thousands of undocumented immigrants.
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Judge Blocks License for Detention Facility
Immigrant rights groups were handed a significant victory on Wednesday when a Travis County judge ruled that the state temporarily cannot license an immigration detention center as a childcare facility.
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El Paso ID Effort Could Force Showdown Over Local Control
In El Paso, local leaders hope to create a municipal ID card for the region’s homeless, indigent and undocumented. But Gov. Greg Abbott has hinted that could make El Paso a so-called “sanctuary city.”
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Obama Administration Asks Texas Judge To Put Immigration Order on Hold
The Obama administration has asked a Brownsville-based judge to rethink an order that requires the federal government to turn over the private information of thousands of undocumented immigrants.
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As El Paso Sees Surge of Cuban Migrants, Calls for Policy Shift Grow Louder
As El Paso draws record numbers of Cubans seeking refuge, the city’s Democratic congressman said he favors repealing a decades-old provision that gives those migrants a special status here.
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Judge Orders Ethics Classes for Justice Department Attorneys in Immigration Case
The Brownsville-based judge who halted President Obama’s 2014 executive action on immigration has decided that ethics classes are in order for the attorneys who defended the policy.
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Lawmakers Rebuke Library of Congress Over Dropping “Illegal Alien” Language
A trio of Texas Republican lawmakers says the U.S. Library of Congress is bowing to political pressure by eliminating the terms “illegal alien” and “alien” from its search and subject heading classifications.
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Texas Suburbs Among Fastest-Growing Cities
Big Texas cities continue to add the greatest number of people, but the action is in the suburbs when it comes to rates of growth. Led by Georgetown, Texas has four of the nation’s 10 fastest-growing cities.
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Push To Provide Lawyers for Immigrant Children Loses Steam
An ambitious effort by the state’s legal community to provide legal representation to immigrant children hasn’t had quite the impact some had hoped.
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Federal Border Officials in El Paso Accused of Coercion, Abuse
Federal officials stationed on the Texas-Mexico border called legal border crossers “whores” and “criminals” and subjected others to unwarranted searches and coercion, according to a complaint a civil liberties group submitted to the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general Tuesday.
