A growing number of asylum-seekers are asking for safe haven based on a factor that isn’t usually associated with a need to flee one’s homeland: gender identity. In the days before the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark gay marriage case, immigrant rights groups were drawing attention to the plight of LGBT immigrants.
Demographics
Explore population trends, diversity, and data shaping Texas communities, politics, and policy.
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Demographics
See Demographics Shift by Texas County
Use our interactive to see how the demographics in your county have changed since 2010, according to race and ethnicity figures released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Demographics
Feds to Curtail Use of Family Detention Centers
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced Wednesday that families that enter the country illegally to seek asylum will no longer be detained after they’ve established a legitimate claim for relief.
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Interactive Map: Confederate Statues on Texas Capitol Grounds
There are more than a dozen monuments, markers and statues that reference the Confederacy on the Texas Capitol grounds. Use our interactive map — first published in 2012 — to find them.
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Criminal Justice
New Consul Takes on Mexico’s Texas Diaspora
In an interview with the Tribune, Carlos González Gutiérrez, Mexico’s newest general consul in Austin, discussed the challenges of reaching out to the state’s diverse communities of Mexican nationals, and how he interacts with state leaders at the Capitol.
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Demographics
Van de Putte Company Dropping Confederate Flags
Pete Van de Putte — owner of Dixie Flag Manufacturing Company and husband of former state Sen. and San Antonio mayoral candidate Leticia Van de Putte — changed his mind Tuesday and decided to stop making and selling Confederate flags.
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University of Texas/Texas Tribune Polls
UT/TT Poll: Texans Divided on Guns, Discrimination
Texans believe discrimination is a hard fact of life in the U.S., but they have dramatically different views on what groups fall victim to it, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Demographics
Perry: Removing Confederate Flag an “Act of Healing”
Former Gov. Rick Perry expressed support Monday for taking down the Confederate flag in South Carolina that has become a lightning rod of controversy since a deadly shooting at a church there.
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Criminal Justice
More Judges Sought for Immigration Backlog
The backlog of immigration cases from Texas has grown almost 60 percent in two years. U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, is trying to get Congress to cough up funding for 55 more immigration judges and staff to help overloaded courts across the country.
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Get a Closer Look at Texas’ Death Row
There are currently 261 inmates living on death row in Texas, the state with the most active execution chamber by far. Use this interactive to search through these men and women by the length of their stay, race, age and sex.
