The director of the El Paso-based Annunciation House said he needs more help from the city to ensure the migrants, most of whom are seeking asylum, don’t end up on the streets.
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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Environment
Laredo officials want to use border wall money to fund a riverfront project
A decade ago, Laredo leaders hatched an idea for a riverfront development aimed at luring more people to downtown. Now they’re trying to get the federal government to make it part of President Donald Trump’s border wall.
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Politics
Trump’s emergency declaration could mean Texas’ military installations lose millions for future projects
Joint Base San Antonio, Fort Bliss, Fort Hood and the naval reserve center in Galveston could all lose funding for construction projects if the president’s plan to divert money from the military to a border wall succeeds.
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Families Divided
Despite migrant surge, federal officials weigh plan to phase out family detention at South Texas facility
The residential center in Karnes City holds more than 500 adults and children, but federal officials are considering releasing them with notices to appear in court and using the facility to house single adults instead.
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Politics
Ted Cruz and John Cornyn vote against Joaquin Castro’s resolution blocking Trump’s emergency order
But multiple Republican senators joined Democrats in backing the resolution, which passed the Senate. President Donald Trump has said he’ll veto the measure.
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Immigration
Juan Sanchez stepping down as CEO of Southwest Key Programs
In the wake of the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy that separated thousands of migrant children from their parents — in turn swelling the number of kids in Southwest Key’s shelters — Sanchez came under fire for a series of controversies.
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The Taking
Legal experts: Emergency declaration may not be quickest way to build wall
Even if President Donald Trump gets his way, eminent domain lawyers say a variety of legal issues would arise surrounding private land seizures that could delay wall construction for years — and even derail it entirely.
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Immigration
In another blow to Trump, judge rules in favor of ACLU in family separation case
The ruling dramatically expands the scope of the class-action lawsuit that compelled the Trump administration to reunite the separated families. The migrants added to the lawsuit now include those separated during a 2017 trial run of the program in West Texas.
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TribCast
TribCast: UT/TT Pollster Edition
On this week’s special pollster edition of the TribCast, Ross talks to Josh Blank, Jim Henson and Daron Shaw from the University of Texas about the findings of the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Families Divided
How one migrant family got caught between smugglers, the cartel and Trump’s zero-tolerance policy
Carlos left Honduras with 6-year-old Heyli and a dream of lifting his family out of poverty, only to be caught in the web of a billion-dollar smuggling industry, then separated from his daughter for months. “Right now, the money’s in the people,” one smuggler says.