El Paso’s backlogged immigration court recently halted programs designed to aid asylum seekers as they navigate a complicated legal system. “The confusion in the courtroom is palpable,” says one advocate.
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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“Kids in cages”: House hearing examines immigration detention as Democrats push for more information
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin, told a migrant whose daughter died shortly after being in federal custody that “there are no words” for what happened to her child. But he also said Democrats’ claims that kids are kept in cages is an attempt to “score political points.”
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Broken Border
Border apprehensions dropped in June, but federal officials say crisis continues
While announcing the number of migrants apprehended along America’s southern border, the Trump administration also warned that the one-month change does not signal that the influx of people crossing is over.
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Asylum seekers will appear before judges via teleconferencing in tents as “Remain in Mexico” program expands to Laredo
Laredo’s mayor says U.S. Customs and Border Protection plans to build tents to hold asylum proceedings through “virtual courtrooms.”
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U.N. human rights chief “deeply shocked” by border processing center conditions in Texas
The high commissioner singled out the treatment of migrant children, saying she was “deeply shocked that children are forced to sleep on the floor in overcrowded facilities, without access to adequate healthcare or food, and with poor sanitation conditions.”
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Broken Border
Analysis: Why would politicians fix our immigration problems when they can campaign off the mess?
Look at the immigration problem, at the issues on the border, at what lawmakers are doing in response and at the polling of what voters think. It looks like the fight might be more beneficial to the politicians than a solution would be.
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Broken Border
Joaquin Castro said he ignored requests to relinquish his phone to record video of detained migrants at border facility
“People have to speak up and they have to take action,” Castro said of his decision to release footage of women detained in an El Paso border facility. “This was about shining a light on what’s going on.”
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San Antonio and other Texas cities confront the spillover from the border migration crisis
With Border Patrol facilities overwhelmed, San Antonio’s hastily opened migrant center, housed in an old Quiznos, is seeing hundreds of migrants arriving daily, many without money or a place to go.
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Expansion of “remain in Mexico” policy brings tension, fear to border cities
In less than two months, the number of migrants sent to Ciudad Juárez under the program has swelled from 2,800 to 7,600. Human rights groups and a former Mexican government official say migrants aren’t safe in the border city.
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Border Patrol searches for missing 2-year-old girl in Rio Grande
The girl’s mother said her daughter was swept away as they tried to cross the river near Del Rio.