Immigration

The structure of immigration courts, unique in the federal government, has long been criticized for its potential for conflicts of interest.

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Even after the Trump administration said it would reunify families separated under the now-paused “zero tolerance” immigration policy, new data shows the number of children held in privately run shelters in Texas is still high.

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The immigration detention facility for undocumented immigrant minors in Tornillo will remain open another month, officials confirmed Friday.

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The devices are a better option than detention, but they disrupt almost every aspect of daily life, from sleeping and exercising to buying groceries and getting a job, according to more than a dozen attorneys, immigrant advocates and Central American asylum-seekers.

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The plan places a heavy burden on the American Civil Liberties Union, the advocacy group that successfully took the government to court this year to order the reunifications.

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The Trump administration has promised to phase out the Obama-era immigration program. But the president himself has also expressed sympathy for "Dreamers."

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The family's lawyer said that the small child “tragically died after being detained by ICE in unsanitary conditions.”

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Texas' challenge of the Obama-era immigration program on Wednesday focused on what harm the program has done to the state, if DACA violated federal procedures and what took Texas so long to file its lawsuit.

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Homeland Security Press Secretary Tyler Houlton hailed the numbers as evidence that the Trump administration’s recent crackdown at the border has deterred immigrants from trying to cross into the country illegally.

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Just as Texas stopped sending foster children to centers operated by one man, the U.S. government tossed him a new source of money: immigrant kids.

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“It’s clear the administration’s goal is to deny and deport as many people as possible, as quickly as possible," said Jennifer Chang Newell, an attorney with the ACLU's Immigrants’ Rights Project.

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A head-spinning sequence of events appears to have put the Trump administration right where it started: running a "catch and release" immigration system in which families crossing the border illegally stay in the country as the government processes their asylum claims.

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For every migrant parent federal officials fail to locate, U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw said, "there will be a permanently orphaned child."

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For the next three months, Tribune reporters, photographers and videographers will team up with journalists at TIME to jointly produce articles and documentary-style video from the Rio Grande Valley.

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The alleged incidents are part of a series of accusations of sexual abuse inside the government’s immigrant youth shelters.

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A mother of three U.S. citizens says she believed all her life she was an American. But after she helped put away a relative who sexually abused her child, her life unraveled. She's languishing in immigration detention.

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Several new facilities have already opened this summer, and the federal government has requested up to 15,500 beds at two Texas military bases.

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After President Trump vowed to phase out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which protects immigrants brought into the U.S. as children from deportation, federal courts stepped in — and Texas is suing to end the program.

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Some 400 parents were sent back to their native countries without their children. As an official with the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency put it, “we don’t keep track of individuals once they’ve been deported to foreign countries.”

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Two weeks ago, we asked readers to help us raise $35,000 to send two reporters to the Rio Grande Valley to ramp up our coverage of the family separation crisis. As of today, we’re thrilled to report we’ve raised nearly $75,000.

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