The Border Patrol facility in Clint has been under intense scrutiny after reports surfaced last week alleging children were held without adequate water, food and proper sanitation.
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Top U.S. border official John Sanders to step down, deepening DHS turmoil
The resignation comes as U.S. Customs and Border Protection faces scrutiny over substandard conditions in which migrant children are being held in U.S. custody along the border.
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How Texans in Congress feel about Trump’s delay of family deportations depends on their party affiliation
Republicans say the postponement will be successful at bringing Democrats to the negotiating table. But Democrats say the president is making people pawns in a political game.
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Migrant children moved from Border Patrol facility after reports of unsafe conditions
Hundreds of children have been moved from the facility in Clint to another Border Patrol facility in El Paso.
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People want to donate diapers and toys to children at Border Patrol facilities in Texas. They’re being turned away.
A Border Patrol official told a state lawmaker that the agency doesn’t accept donations for facilities where children are reportedly being held in substandard conditions.
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Border Patrol finds three children, one woman dead at South Texas border
The four bodies were found southeast of Anzalduas Park in the Las Palomas Wildlife Management Area, south of McAllen.
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“We need to be prepared”: The tough conversations immigrant families are having as deportation fears consume Houston communities
Although the president delayed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation targeting families with deportation orders, anxiety remains among the undocumented community of Houston.
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Lawyer: Inside an immigrant detention center in South Texas, “basic hygiene just doesn’t exist”
The attorney said running water is so bad that mothers save any bottled water they can to mix baby formula. The stories she heard from people in the shelter echo tales at other facilities, where people say conditions are substandard.
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Art Acevedo urges Congress to act on immigration reform: “We cannot have groundhog day, day in and day out”
Amid the specter of family deportations in Houston, many Texas officials and migrant advocates agree it’s past time that federal lawmakers address the nation’s complicated asylum and immigration systems. But opinions vary about whether state and federal responses in recent days will prompt congressional action.
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Trump says he will hold off on planned ICE raids, including those in Houston
Houston was on a list of cities federal agents were going to target Sunday. The president said he was delaying the announced raids for two weeks in hopes that Democrats and Republicans will work together to solve “Asylum and Loophole problems” on the U.S.-Mexico border.