As lawmakers in Washington prepare a budget for the next fiscal year, funding for the border wall is taking center stage — again.
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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Texas 2020 Elections
Julián Castro hit Joe Biden over Barack Obama’s immigration legacy. But in 2013, Castro supported Obama’s policies.
Castro hasn’t always been a liberal darling on border issues: In 2013, he gave a full-throated endorsement of the border and immigration policies advocated by Obama and touted the completion of enforcement measures that included fencing along the U.S-Mexico border.
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Broken Border
Supreme Court lets Trump’s rule for asylum seekers on southern border stand
The ruling made Wednesday allows the policy — which requires many migrants to seek asylum in countries other than the United States — to continue in the states on the nation’s southern border.
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Immigration
Migrant mother and her lawyer refused to take “no” for an answer from U.S. border agents
An attorney from the Rio Grande Valley recently pushed back against the Trump administration’s Remain in Mexico Policy. She tried to get her client — who was nearly eight months pregnant — paroled and back into Texas.
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Broken Border
Federal officials credit Trump’s crackdown after border apprehensions dropped in August
The monthly total is the lowest since January — and less than half of this year’s peak in May.
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Broken Border
Judge blocks Trump’s rule for asylum seekers on southern border
The rule would allow U.S. officials to deny asylum to immigrants who passed through another country before reaching the border. Monday’s ruling blocks the policy across the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Immigration
Two years after Trump announced an end to DACA, “Dreamers” look ahead with hope and anxiety
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on the case in November. Its decision will affect hundreds of thousands who received protections under the Obama administration.
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El Paso shooting
Gov. Greg Abbott says “mistakes were made” in his fundraising letter before the El Paso shooting
The governor’s comments come after reports emerged of a two-page fundraising mailer that warned of a liberal plan to “to transform Texas — and our entire country — through illegal immigration.”
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Immigration
‘Take the land’: President Trump wants a border wall. He wants it black. And he wants it by Election Day.
So far, federal agencies have managed to erect about 60 miles of replacement barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Immigration
After tragedy in El Paso, a special visa could be available to some survivors
The special permit, referred to as a U visa, was created by Congress specifically for victims of certain crimes who could help with criminal investigations. But petitioners must follow a lengthy, bureaucratic process to apply.