The latest immigration news from The Texas Tribune.
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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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Agents didn't give a reason for canceling the "mobile field force demonstration." Full Story
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Meanwhile, the arrival of active duty military forces is making some residents nervous along the border. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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Three of the four Republicans who responded to our requests for comment said they supported President Donald Trump's idea. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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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. Full Story
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A woman from Honduras crossed the Rio Grande and asked for asylum. For months, she said doctors in a detention center gave her only ibuprofen and antibiotics for a persistent open wound. Full Story
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President Donald Trump is weighing a plan to shut the U.S. border to Central Americans and deny them the opportunity to seek asylum, asserting similar emergency powers used during the early 2017 “travel ban,” according to administration officials and people familiar with the proposal. Full Story
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The report, released Tuesday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, says that federal agencies did not find out about "zero tolerance" at the border until it was publicly announced. Full Story
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