Gov. Greg Abbott in 2016 threatened to pull Texas from a refugee resettlement program. But Austin Mayor Steve Adler thinks refugees benefit his city. A new White House plan could mean a state could ban refugees even when a city is prepared to welcome them.
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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Lower federal courts side against Trump on border fence funding, ‘public charge’ rule
El Paso County, one of the plaintiffs in the border fence lawsuit, is the first local jurisdiction to successfully sue the president to stop construction of a border barrier.
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Texas sheriff at White House briefing: If criminal immigrants are released, “drunks” will “run over your children.”
The remarks by Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn came during a White House press briefing about border security.
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Broken Border
Border Patrol apprehensions dipped last month, but 2019 saw a dramatic increase from 2018
Despite the months-long trend downward, the 2019 fiscal year’s total represents nearly a 90 percent increase from 2018.
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Health care
Trump’s order will deny visas to immigrants who lack health-care coverage
President Trump said the new rule, issued late on Friday, is intended to “protect the availability of health care benefits for Americans.”
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Broken Border
A Mexican citizen had court papers allowing him to be in the U.S. But a Border Patrol agent detained him anyway.
The man, whose immigration case received “administrative closure” from a U.S. judge, was detained by Border Patrol agents at a highway checkpoint. Lawyers say the agents went too far, but federal officials say otherwise.
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Politics
Federal government awards three contracts for 65 new miles of border fencing in South Texas
The cost of the new fencing will range between $385 million and $800 million. Construction is set to begin in early 2020.
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Immigration
Federal judge blocks Trump administration from detaining migrant children for indefinite periods
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from activating new regulations that would have dramatically expanded its ability to detain migrant children with their parents.
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U.S. announces asylum deal with Honduras, could send migrants to one of world’s most violent nations
The Trump administration’s deal with the violence-plagued nation comes shortly after U.S. prosecutors named Honduras’ president as a co-conspirator in a major drug case.
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Broken Border
Hundreds of CBP officers returned to port duty after assisting U.S. Border Patrol
In late March, more than 700 officers from ports of entry in El Paso; Laredo; Tucson, Arizona; and San Diego were reassigned amid the growing number of migrants arriving at the country’s southern border.