While U.S. officials sound the alarm over a surge of migrants crossing the border, Mexican shelter operators and immigration officials are trying to find space for people from nearly every continent who must wait in Mexico as they try to claim asylum in the U.S.
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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Toddler apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border dies in El Paso after weeks in hospital
The boy is the fourth migrant child to die since December after being apprehended at the southern border and taken to the hospital. All have been from Guatemala.
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Border detention cells in Texas are so overcrowded that the U.S. is using aircraft to move migrants
“This is the worst I have ever seen it, by far,” said one veteran Border Patrol agent in South Texas.
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Guides
Where is Texas’ growing population coming from?
Texas is growing at a rate of 1,000 people per day, and for the second year in a row, most of the people who moved to the state came from other countries in 2018. And the biggest growth in international migration isn’t from Latin America.
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Appeals court lets Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy for asylum seekers stand
Tuesday’s decision means the program will continue and that hundreds — if not thousands more asylum seekers — will be sent back across the U.S.-Mexico border pending further hearings.
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Families Divided
The government is putting up more tents to hold migrants, but will it be enough?
The facilities, in El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley city of Donna, are designed to house up to 500 asylum seekers each. But the Border Patrol is still apprehending thousands of migrants a week.
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Four missing, including three children, after migrants’ raft overturns in Rio Grande near Del Rio
Drownings and migrant rescues along the Rio Grande are a regular occurrence, but the dangers have increased in recent weeks because the river is swollen with spring runoff at a moment when record numbers of Central American families are attempting to cross.
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Immigrant teen dies while in federal custody in South Texas
The 16-year-old’s death after being held in a Southwest Key facility in Brownsville is being investigated by the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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TribCast
TribCast: Tax night in the Texas Lege; state ends its voter citizenship review
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Ayan, Aman and Matthew about the Legislature’s progress on property taxes and school finance reform, the state’s decision to end a botched voter citizenship review and the fate of marijuana decriminalization in the Texas Senate.
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White House asks Congress for $4.5 billion in emergency spending for the border
The administration’s newest request follows the more than $8 billion that President Trump sought in his budget request and about $6 billion he sought through his declaration of a national emergency at the border.