After six months of controversy and protests, the tent city erected near a desert port of entry will close after federal officials can find new accommodations for more than 800 unaccompanied minors who crossed the border illegally.
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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Republican Congressman Mac Thornberry pushes back against idea of military building border wall
Thornberry, the former chair of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, said “it is not a responsibility of the Department of Defense” to build the wall.
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President Trump to visit U.S.-Mexico border Thursday
President Donald Trump is making a trip to the United States’ border with Mexico on Thursday. It wasn’t immediately clear whether he would visit Texas.
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Health care
Here’s how the federal government shutdown is affecting Texas
Court cases are slowing down and it’s taking some people longer to buy a home, but national parks are open and the Border Patrol is still working.
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After years of Trump’s dire warnings, a “crisis” has hit the border but generates little urgency
A political stalemate over the president’s border wall plan makes small-bore immigration fixes more remote.
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Trump says he could declare national emergency to build border wall
Asked Friday if he would declare a national emergency to get the wall built, Trump responded: “We can do it. I haven’t done it. I may do it. I may do it.”
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The Texas Tribune’s most-read stories of 2018
No surprise: Our audience was drawn to our reporting on the U.S. Senate race between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke. And our most-read story of 2018 let readers know how they could help migrant children at the border.
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As ICE releases hundreds of migrants en masse in El Paso, local shelter eyes more beds
Immigration shelters in the El Paso area are trying to expand capacity as the federal government released hundreds of migrants this week with no place to go and without warning.
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Tornillo facility for migrant kids will remain open into 2019, federal government confirms
The facility, which critics have called a “tent city” and sits on a remote port of entry, was opened in June to house mainly unaccompanied minors who crossed the border without parents or guardians
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8-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. custody spent two days at El Paso Border Patrol station
The boy and his father were taken to the El Paso Border Patrol station, where they were held for two days, CBP said. They were later taken to the Alamogordo station. CBP said it was looking into options to relieve overcrowding in its facilities in the El Paso sector, which includes El Paso County and all of New Mexico.