Immigration

Immigration lawyers say border agents are again removing children from their parents. The explanation? They’re protecting kids from criminal dads and moms. Immigration advocates say it’s zero tolerance by another name.

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The Trump administration has struck a deal with Mexico's incoming government to remake border policy.

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The plan, called “Remain in Mexico,” amounts to a major break with current screening procedures.

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Keep calm and come on over. That’s the holiday message El Paso city and business officials are sending to their neighbors directly across the Texas-Mexico border.

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The number of unaccompanied minor children held in Texas shelters reached a new high in November, months after the administration of President Donald Trump ended its policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the border.

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The temporary restraining order halts President Donald Trump’s effort to automatically deny asylum to migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited Base Camp Donna in South Texas Wednesday, weeks after President Trump dispatched thousands of active-duty forces to the border in anticipation of a Central American migrant caravan.

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As a caravan of Central American migrants continues to make its way toward the U.S., the Border Patrol held a mobile field force training exercise near the Paso Del Norte international bridge.

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The emergency rule change comes as a caravan of Central American migrants is slowly making its way to the United States' border with Mexico.

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Agents didn't give a reason for canceling the "mobile field force demonstration."

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Meanwhile, the arrival of active duty military forces is making some residents nervous along the border.

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While President Trump vows to end citizenship rights for children born to non-U.S. citizens through an executive order, political analysts and immigrants themselves say that wouldn't deter illegal immigration.

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On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Alexa, Alex and Patrick about Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship and his decision to send more troops to the border, the latest candidate in the Texas House Speaker’s race, midterm voter turnout and straight-ticket voting problems in Texas.

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Immigration and border security continue to top the list of Texas voters' concerns, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.

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A day after federal officials announced that active-duty military will descend on the border to thwart the caravan of Central American asylum-seekers slowly approaching the United States, border lawmakers said they haven't been given details about the estimated 5,200-troop deployment.

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Three of the four Republicans who responded to our requests for comment said they supported President Donald Trump's idea.

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The Honduran migrants headed northward as part of a massive caravan are fleeing for different reasons — rank poverty, gang threats and a globalized economy that left them behind. They’re so desperate, they told me, they’re willing to gamble on a dangerous trip.

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President Donald Trump said in an interview with Axios that he plans to sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of noncitizens. Legal scholars question whether that's constitutional. Here's what Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke have said.

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The move, which many legal experts say runs afoul of the Constitution, would be the most aggressive yet by a president elected to office pledging to take a hard line on immigration.

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Texas voters would immediately deport undocumented immigrants currently living in the country and many want the U.S. to slow legal immigration, too, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.

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