Changes to the federal “public charge” rule are set to take effect in October, but fear and confusion are already causing immigrants to drop benefits.
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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Broken Border
ICE to resume detaining migrant families at South Texas facility
The Trump administration had stopped holding families at the Karnes County Residential Center in the spring, saying it coudn’t transport migrants there because of a record influx of families at the border.
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The 2019 Texas Tribune Festival
Watch a 2019 Texas Tribune Festival conversation about 2020 and the border
In this discussion, panelists focused on how border and immigration policy and politics are shaping the 2020 landscape.
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Immigration
Trump administration reaches deal to send asylum seekers to El Salvador
In an effort to deter migrants from seeking asylum in the United States, the administration wants to send them to the Central American nation.
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Broken Border
This migrant mother and her child couldn’t wait for their asylum court date anymore. They drowned trying to enter the U.S.
The Honduran mother and son were found dead in the Rio Grande in Texas last week. They were sent to wait in Mexico while their asylum case played out in U.S. immigration court.
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Broken Border
Along Texas border, Trump administration sets up tent courts for virtual asylum hearings
After passing a policy requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico until their cases can be heard, the administration has erected the tent complexes so immigration judges in San Antonio can hold hearings remotely.
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Politics
Another budget fight looms this month in Congress centering on border wall funding
As lawmakers in Washington prepare a budget for the next fiscal year, funding for the border wall is taking center stage — again.
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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.