The latest immigration news from The Texas Tribune.
Under increasing public pressure, the president issued an executive order aimed at ending family separations at the border. But the federal agencies tasked with carrying out that order had different interpretations of what it really said. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/e12fe14a1cd86ad0c299a74aba46705c/Catholic_Charities_McAllen_1_BD_TT.jpg)
The family separations crisis quickly emerged as the top issue at the state Democratic biennial convention, fueling anger and enthusiasm as the minority party charges into a general election season determined to push back against Trump and his GOP allies in Texas. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/3533f198b1af585f910731489552b95a/Beto_and_Lupe_2_BD_TT.jpg)
At the week-old immigration detention center for minors at the Tornillo port of entry near El Paso, a legal aid group is trying to reconnect parents and children because the government's system for doing so "is a bit of a nightmarish process." Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/f59e541dd5fb60ecc2bba55fd0e119dd/Tornillo_tent_city_1_IVP_TT.jpg)
Three Central American immigrant detainees have sued the government to be reunited with their children. On Friday, they sent handwritten notes to the court pleading for information about them. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/6368419365aee4a9bac4d979dabc6f95/LettersFromParents.png)
The state's Republican senators reaffirmed their commitment to keeping kids with their parents after they cross the border — so long as future immigration policy better deters people from entering the country illegally. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/0e59a77ffb245c23915c91afbd5b8f27/Cruz_Cornyn_weslaco_BD_TT.jpg)
The Trump administration says there is still "zero tolerance" for anyone who crosses the border illegally. But the top federal prosecutor in one of Texas' busiest border districts has dropped charges against immigrants who arrived with their families. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/51ffe2aa23212b485c447ba2f1f1e729/Crowd_at_Tornillo_IVP_TT.jpg)
A Trump administration "zero tolerance" policy regarding illegal border crossings has left more than 2,000 children separated from their parents and sowed confusion in federal immigration courts. Read all of our coverage from Austin, Washington and along Texas' 1,200-mile border with Mexico. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/2b873acc35d1cbae8d65a0a66c8628ee/Genesis_and_Jose_on_Brownsville_bridge_RL_TT.jpg)
For Japanese-Americans who were held at a South Texas internment camp, the trauma inflicted on migrant children who have been separated from their parents is all too familiar. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/6c79c6b5c293504fa7aebe4489d683f3/Nursery_School_Crystal_City_Hiroshi_Shimizu_TT.jpg)
A lack of space and a legal settlement stand in his administration's way. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/e463a7cb923f09278c77fadaca583e36/Family_detention_center_Dilley_LS_TT.jpg)
Some migrants, unable to cross the border, have chosen to wait out the storms exposed on the bridges connecting the United States and Mexico. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/660a653101ced27f9f36d3e4e752cef0/Flooding_in_the_Valley_Armando_Sierra_TT.jpg)
The 12 deficiencies reported at the New Hope shelter in McAllen are among 37 that state inspectors found at its parent company’s two shelters in the past three years, records show. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/faec691182ce77aa34c4a3e2fa6bc6b2/Melania_Trump_at_border_REUTERS_TT.jpg)
At a briefing in McAllen earlier this week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection told a group of South Texas officials the federal government plans to move forward with private land seizures in the Rio Grande Valley to build sections of President Trump’s border wall. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2017/12/27/Border_Wall_6_CR_TT.jpg)
A Thursday trip by a group of mayors yielded no new information about what, if anything, will change inside the detention center for immigrant children after President Donald Trump's executive order to end family separations. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/e5dbece8e2d313a616d2890a37617d03/Mayors_in_Tornillo_IPA_TT.jpg)
The U.S. government has been examining for weeks whether it can use military bases to house migrant children. Federal officials recently visited three bases in Texas. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/b1d26842a64cf87198b44ff22732b2a2/CBP_McAllen_4.jpg)
A company official told Texas lawmakers Thursday that parents and children have the opportunity to be in contact. But it's still not clear how that may lead to family reunification. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/a217927975cc492d8cbfefb05b9f2a2f/Southwest_Key_HQ_2_RZ_TT.jpg)
As expected, the U.S. House rejected a hard-line immigration measure Thursday afternoon – setting the stage for a vote on a more moderate immigration bill as early as Friday. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2018/01/30/Trump_SOTU_2018.jpg)
The first lady "supports family reunification" and wanted to meet separated children for herself, a spokesperson said. Full Story
The dramatic about-face comes just one day after President Trump signed an executive order ending his administration’s widely denounced practice of separating families apprehended at the Mexico border. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/098042913903c313961ed932acde240f/CBP_McAllen_3.jpg)
Many of the thousands of children separated from their parents at the southern border under a Trump administration “zero-tolerance” policy will end up in a Texas facility with a long history health and safety deficiencies. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/43ec1479a93bcce2cc3dcbc4c673123e/Southwest_Key_HQ_3_RZ_TT.jpg)
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order he says will "keep the families together" when they're apprehended illegally crossing the border. But that does little for families who have already been split apart. Full Story