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.
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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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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Immigration
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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Immigration
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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Immigration
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.
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Immigration
Trump tightens asylum rules, will make immigrants pay fees to seek humanitarian refuge
The order bans work visas for anyone crossing the border illegally and comes as the president focuses on illegal immigration ahead of his 2020 reelection campaign.
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Immigration
Pentagon set to expand military role along U.S-Mexico border
The move would allow military lawyers, cooks and drivers to assist federal immigration agencies facing a surge of migrants arriving at the border.
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Immigration
Migrants on border face confusion and fear under “remain in Mexico” policy
Some asylum seekers sent to Mexico under the Trump administration’s Migration Protection Protocols told a U.S. judge Thursday that they fear remaining in Mexico as their asylum claims are pending.
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T-Squared
Of the border, on the border: I’m Julián Aguilar, and I cover immigration for The Texas Tribune
It’s not my job to tell people what they should think about the border; their own perspectives, politics and histories should shape their perceptions. But it is my job to tell people what’s happening here, and I’m lucky to have the added context of actually being from here.
