The latest immigration news from The Texas Tribune.
The construction over the weekend started after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to build his long-promised wall with funds not appropriated by Congress. Full Story
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The money had been included in a previous version of the state's supplemental budget, and legislators had intended for President Donald Trump's administration to repay the funds. Full Story
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The judge said opponents had a good chance in prevailing on their claims that the administration is acting illegally in shifting money to pay for the wall. Full Story
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The tents will be erected near the Tornillo, Donna, Laredo and Del Rio ports of entry, as well as in Arizona. Full Story
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The quarantine of nearly three dozen migrants at the agency's central processing center happened a day after the death of a 16-year-old who had contracted the flu. Full Story
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The Guatemalan teenager, who hasn’t been identified, was found unresponsive Monday morning at the Border Patrol station in Weslaco. Full Story
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The agency said Friday that the Rio Grande Valley sector is holding an average of 8,000 migrants each day. Full Story
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While U.S. officials sound the alarm over a surge of migrants crossing the border, Mexican shelter operators and immigration officials are trying to find space for people from nearly every continent who must wait in Mexico as they try to claim asylum in the U.S. Full Story
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The boy is the fourth migrant child to die since December after being apprehended at the southern border and taken to the hospital. All have been from Guatemala. Full Story
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“This is the worst I have ever seen it, by far,” said one veteran Border Patrol agent in South Texas. Full Story
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Texas is growing at a rate of 1,000 people per day, and for the second year in a row, most of the people who moved to the state came from other countries in 2018. And the biggest growth in international migration isn't from Latin America. Full Story
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Tuesday’s decision means the program will continue and that hundreds — if not thousands more asylum seekers — will be sent back across the U.S.-Mexico border pending further hearings. Full Story
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The facilities, in El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley city of Donna, are designed to house up to 500 asylum seekers each. But the Border Patrol is still apprehending thousands of migrants a week. Full Story
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Drownings and migrant rescues along the Rio Grande are a regular occurrence, but the dangers have increased in recent weeks because the river is swollen with spring runoff at a moment when record numbers of Central American families are attempting to cross. Full Story
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The 16-year-old’s death after being held in a Southwest Key facility in Brownsville is being investigated by the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement. Full Story
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On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Ayan, Aman and Matthew about the Legislature's progress on property taxes and school finance reform, the state’s decision to end a botched voter citizenship review and the fate of marijuana decriminalization in the Texas Senate. Full Story
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The administration's newest request follows the more than $8 billion that President Trump sought in his budget request and about $6 billion he sought through his declaration of a national emergency at the border. Full Story
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The order bans work visas for anyone crossing the border illegally and comes as the president focuses on illegal immigration ahead of his 2020 reelection campaign. Full Story
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The move would allow military lawyers, cooks and drivers to assist federal immigration agencies facing a surge of migrants arriving at the border. Full Story
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Some asylum seekers sent to Mexico under the Trump administration's Migration Protection Protocols told a U.S. judge Thursday that they fear remaining in Mexico as their asylum claims are pending. Full Story
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