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.
Demographics
Explore population trends, diversity, and data shaping Texas communities, politics, and policy.
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Criminal Justice
Time Running Out for Newly Confirmed Ambassador to Mexico
After a months-long delay, veteran State Department official Roberta Jacobson was finally confirmed as the country’s next ambassador to Mexico, and her time could be limited as the Obama administration begins its final months.
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T-Squared
T-Squared: Mental Health Matters
Throughout Mental Health Month in May, the Tribune is partnering with the Mental Health Channel and KLRU for a series focusing on some of Texas’ biggest challenges in providing mental health care.
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Demographics
Texas Cemetery Sued Over “Whites Only” Policy
Dorothy Barrera hoped she and her late husband would eventually be together again at the San Domingo Cemetery, but she says the cemetery association refused to allow her husband’s burial because he was Hispanic.
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Demographics
Judge Blocks State From Licensing Family Detention Center
An Austin judge temporarily blocked the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services from issuing a child-care license to an immigration detention center in Karnes City on Wednesday.
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Demographics
State Sued for Licensing Detention Center
A nonprofit organization has sued the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services for issuing a temporary child-care license to an immigration detention facility that hold women and children from Central America.
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Demographics
State, Feds Know Valley Residents Have Eaten Toxic Fish for Decades
For more than two decades, federal and state health officials have known that residents of a poor community in the Rio Grande Valley are eating fish laced with unsafe levels of toxic chemicals, but they haven’t found a way to stop it.
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Demographics
Roundup: Court Hears Texas’ Challenge to Immigration Action, Colleges Open Food Pantries
In the Roundup: The U.S. Supreme Court hears Texas’ challenge to President Obama’s executive action on immigration, some Texas universities are starting food pantries for students and a petroleum giant gets millions in taxpayer dollars in exchange for pretty much nothing.
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Bordering on Insecurity
Roma, Texas: A Smuggler’s Paradise
Multiple inflatable rafts on the water. Emotionally shaken kids in the back of Border Patrol vans. Dope dumped on the river’s edge. The Texas Tribune witnessed all that and more during an afternoon with the U.S. Border Patrol.
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Images From One Day With the Border Patrol
See images from a recent trip that The Texas Tribune took with the U.S. Border Patrol. This is part of the Tribune’s “Bordering on Insecurity” series.
