Texas voters from the two major parties are split on a range of immigration issues, including immigration policy, deportations and bilingual education, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
Immigration
In-depth reporting on border issues, policies, communities, and the impact of immigration across the state, from The Texas Tribune.
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University of Texas/Texas Tribune Polls
Voters are worried about leadership, border issues, health care and guns, UT/TT Poll finds
National leadership and border issues top the list of voter concerns about the country; at home, it’s the border and gun control, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Immigration
ICE transfers detainees out of West Texas facility after water shortage in Sierra Blanca
The shortage has forced the West Texas Detention Facility, operated by Louisiana-based LaSalle Corrections, to turn off its water nightly.
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Immigration
Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” immigration policy expands along Texas’ southern border
The Migrant Protection Protocols, a program requiring migrants to wait in Mexico as their asylum requests are pending, is in effect in Eagle Pass, El Paso, Laredo and Brownsville.
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Environment
West Texas detention facility enacting water conservation measures after depletion of local water tanks
The Sierra Blanca facility, which houses ICE detainees, shuts down its water supply at 11 p.m. daily to allow its on-site water tanks to replenish overnight.
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Broken Border
Conditions deteriorating at makeshift camp on the Rio Grande where thousands await U.S. asylum
The camp began forming last summer in Matamoros, Mexico, and now an estimated 2,000 people, many of them children, live in squalid conditions as they wait weeks or months to request U.S. asylum.
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Immigration
Trump administration testing rapid asylum review, deportation process in Texas
The accelerated reviews seek to accomplish two of the president’s goals: deterring migrants from attempting to cross the U.S. border and pushing asylum seekers out of the United States.
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Immigration
Immigration agency decides against six-figure fines for undocumented immigrants living in sanctuaries
Last summer, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents told some undocumented immigrants it was considering giving them six-figure fines. Last week, the agency backed down.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Donald Trump fans in Dallas say the president just “gets” them
Their support for the president is steeped in two main beliefs: He’s done exactly “what he said he’d do,” and his remarks toward Democrats and people of color matched what they said and believed.
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Broken Border
She fled a violent Honduran gang to seek asylum in Texas. Now she might be deported because she didn’t file paperwork in Mexico.
The Trump administration’s policy to deny asylum to migrants who didn’t seek protections elsewhere is now being enforced. Immigration attorneys warn the new rule could forever diminish U.S. asylum policy.