Immigration

A group of Texans is headed to court in hopes of blocking the Trump administration from including a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Here's a primer on the legal fight and what it could mean for the state.

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Democrats called the deal a ‘non-starter.'

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The closure of a temporary shelter in Tornillo led to a decline in the number of migrant children housed in Texas — and nationwide.

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According to the Department of Health and Human Services’s inspector general report, the separated children include 118 taken between July and early November — after the administration halted a short-lived family separation policy.

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When it comes to many of the biggest policy issues facing the country today, Beto O’Rourke’s default stance is to call for a debate — even on issues related to the border and immigration.

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As the government shutdown approaches its fifth week, Border Patrol agents still roam the Rio Grande and the international bridges are still open. But some federal immigration proceedings have ground to a halt and thousands of hearings have been canceled.

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Gov. Greg Abbott and 22 members of Congress from Texas sent a letter to President Trump stating their opposition to using Harvey aid for a border wall.

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Kids were brought into the tent city and some were held for months after illegally crossing the border. For seven months, Tornillo was a symbol of the Trump administration's scattershot immigration policies, CityLab writes.

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"This tent city should never have stood in the first place," U.S. Rep. Will Hurd said Friday on Twitter.

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Amid signs, shouts and waving flags, a veteran says Trump's talk of the border as a war zone is overblown and an immigrant from Mexico says she supports the president's push to protect the border.

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It's unclear how serious the president is about the idea, but Gov. Greg Abbott expressed skepticism for such a plan since the federal government isn't committing the billions of dollars Trump wants.

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In a televised address ahead of his trip to Texas, the president called border crossings a "humanitarian crisis." But Trump didn't declare an emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border as the weeks-long partial government shutdown continues amid his stalemate with Congress.

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After six months of controversy and protests, the tent city erected near a desert port of entry will close after federal officials can find new accommodations for more than 800 unaccompanied minors who crossed the border illegally.

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Thornberry, the former chair of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, said "it is not a responsibility of the Department of Defense" to build the wall.

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Court cases are slowing down and it’s taking some people longer to buy a home, but national parks are open and the Border Patrol is still working.

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President Donald Trump is making a trip to the United States' border with Mexico on Thursday. It wasn't immediately clear whether he would visit Texas.

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A political stalemate over the president’s border wall plan makes small-bore immigration fixes more remote.

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Asked Friday if he would declare a national emergency to get the wall built, Trump responded: “We can do it. I haven’t done it. I may do it. I may do it.”

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No surprise: Our audience was drawn to our reporting on the U.S. Senate race between Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke. And our most-read story of 2018 let readers know how they could help migrant children at the border.

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Immigration shelters in the El Paso area are trying to expand capacity as the federal government released hundreds of migrants this week with no place to go and without warning.

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