State investigating reports that a child died after leaving an ICE facility in Texas
The family's lawyer said that the small child “tragically died after being detained by ICE in unsanitary conditions.” Full Story
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Judge hears Texas' challenge to DACA in Houston
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. Full Story
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Illegal border crossings drop for second month in a row
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. Full Story
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Feds sent immigrant kids to dangerous Texas youth facility, despite serious warning signs
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. Full Story
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![Shiloh Treatment Center, shown in an aerial photograph, is near Manvel, Texas, south of
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ACLU sues Trump administration over decision to exclude most asylum-seekers fleeing domestic abuse, gang violence
“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. Full Story
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Immigration "loophole" that Trump bemoaned returns after zero tolerance rollback
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. Full Story
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![Silvia Guidel and her daughters Seily, 7, and twins Nahsliy Nicole and Nahsliy Dariana, 4, from Guatemala, make their way from the McAllen bus station to the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center on July 31, 2018.]()
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The government hasn’t found 410 migrant parents deported without their kids
For every migrant parent federal officials fail to locate, U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw said, "there will be a permanently orphaned child." Full Story
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T-Squared: We’re partnering with TIME to cover the family separation crisis
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. Full Story
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Worker charged in 2017 with sexually molesting 8 children at Southwest Key immigrant shelter
The alleged incidents are part of a series of accusations of sexual abuse inside the government’s immigrant youth shelters. Full Story
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A tale of revenge and immigration leaves a mother of American kids locked up in Texas
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. Full Story
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The Trump administration is making plans to detain more immigrants in Texas. Here's where they would be held.
Several new facilities have already opened this summer, and the federal government has requested up to 15,500 beds at two Texas military bases. Full Story
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DACA back in court next month as Texas moves to end program
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. Full Story
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How can the federal government reunify kids with deported parents? First step: Find them.
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.” Full Story
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T-Squared: Thank you for helping us fund more coverage of families divided
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. Full Story
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Judge orders government to release immigrant kids from troubled Texas shelter
The Shiloh Treatment Center near Manvel has been accused of drugging young immigrants to keep them docile. About 25 youths are affected by the order. Full Story
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![The Shiloh Treatment Center, near Manvel, is one of 32 Texas facilities licensed to care for migrant children who have been separated from their parents. The facility, where inspectors have found eight recent health and safety violations, has received $25 million in federal payments since 2013.]()
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Mexican reporter and son released from immigration detention in Texas
Emilio Gutiérrez Soto and his son Oscar spent seven months in federal detention. Their release comes a day before a court-ordered deadline for federal officials to turn over emails about why the two were detained. Full Story
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As reunification deadline lands, hundreds of migrant families remain divided
Some parents have been declared ineligible because of "red flags" in their records. But many haven't been reunified because immigration officials already deported them. Full Story
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The feds say 120 migrant parents waived reunification rights. But some say they were coerced or confused.
The government says that more than 100 migrant parents chose not to be reunited with their children by Thursday's deadline. Lawyers who interviewed these migrants say they're on that list by mistake or worse. Full Story
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TribCast: Looming family reunification deadlines and moldy state office buildings
On this week's TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Patrick and Emma about Texas' mold-infested state health services building, whether the feds will meet a court-ordered deadline for migrant family reunifications and why some Republican statewide officials have no incentive to debate their Democratic opponents. Full Story
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Analysis: The unfolding story of the newest Americans
There's a big difference between what policy is supposed to do and what it actually does. The family separation fiasco on the U.S.-Mexico border is a perfect example. Full Story
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