Immigration

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that its Migration Protection Protocols, also called “remain in Mexico,” now includes the El Paso port of entry.

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The director of the El Paso-based Annunciation House said he needs more help from the city to ensure the migrants, most of whom are seeking asylum, don’t end up on the streets.

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A decade ago, Laredo leaders hatched an idea for a riverfront development aimed at luring more people to downtown. Now they're trying to get the federal government to make it part of President Donald Trump's border wall.

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Joint Base San Antonio, Fort Bliss, Fort Hood and the naval reserve center in Galveston could all lose funding for construction projects if the president's plan to divert money from the military to a border wall succeeds.

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The residential center in Karnes City holds more than 500 adults and children, but federal officials are considering releasing them with notices to appear in court and using the facility to house single adults instead.

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But multiple Republican senators joined Democrats in backing the resolution, which passed the Senate. President Donald Trump has said he'll veto the measure.

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In the wake of the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy that separated thousands of migrant children from their parents — in turn swelling the number of kids in Southwest Key's shelters — Sanchez came under fire for a series of controversies.

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Even if President Donald Trump gets his way, eminent domain lawyers say a variety of legal issues would arise surrounding private land seizures that could delay wall construction for years — and even derail it entirely.

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The ruling dramatically expands the scope of the class-action lawsuit that compelled the Trump administration to reunite the separated families. The migrants added to the lawsuit now include those separated during a 2017 trial run of the program in West Texas.

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On this week’s special pollster edition of the TribCast, Ross talks to Josh Blank, Jim Henson and Daron Shaw from the University of Texas about the findings of the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.

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Follow two Honduran migrants as their journey to the U.S. for a better life leads them into a giant border hustle where coyotes, cartels and corporations make big bucks off desperate people.

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Carlos left Honduras with 6-year-old Heyli and a dream of lifting his family out of poverty, only to be caught in the web of a billion-dollar smuggling industry, then separated from his daughter for months. "Right now, the money's in the people," one smuggler says.

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Ask Texans what problems they're most worried about for the U.S. and for the state, and their eyes turn to the border between Texas and Mexico, the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll found.

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So far this fiscal year, detainments of families on the U.S.-Mexico border have more than tripled from the same period last year.

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The Texas Department of State Health Services says 186 people, including immigrants and detention center employees, were confirmed with cases of mumps since October.

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The surge of migrants illegally crossing into Texas has continued as the Trump administration has tried to crack down on asylum-seekers.

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Federal officials said they didn't try to halt the implementation of the "zero tolerance" policy despite warnings that separated kids would be traumatized. Testimony came as the policy took center stage at separate Washington hearings.

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In November, Central American migrants evaded Mexican riot police and faced tear gas at the San Diego port of entry. When another caravan approached the Texas border this month, Mexican authorities held them in an empty Piedras Negras factory, then dispersed them.

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In the latest episode of our podcast about the 86th Legislature, Evan Smith talks to state Rep. Poncho Nevárez, chair of the House Homeland Security & Public Safety Committee, about the president’s emergency declaration — and how the Texas Legislature should address the issue of unauthorized immigration.

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The 45-year-old undocumented immigrant is the third person to die in the agency's custody since December.

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