As the president kicked off his re-election campaign and tried to marshal support for his border wall, one of his possible 2020 opponents spoke to thousands across the street in a counter-rally.
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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Beto O’Rourke spoke in El Paso in a counter-rally to Donald Trump’s event
Beto O’Rourke spoke in El Paso Monday night at the same time as President Donald Trump’s El Paso rally. Watch it here.
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The AG’s office told lawmakers it isn’t investigating voters on Texas’ citizenship review list. It told a local official the opposite.
A Paxton deputy told a Guadalupe County official Feb. 1 that the attorney general’s office “has pending criminal investigations related to these issues.”
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As Trump arrives for rally, El Pasoans say history shows he was wrong about their city
As another government shutdown looms later this week, the president follows his State of the Union speech with a rally in the city he said was plagued by crime before border fencing went up. Here’s what history shows about border enforcement and crime in El Paso.
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Watch Donald Trump’s El Paso rally
President Donald Trump visited El Paso for his first campaign rally in the border city.
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What we know about the migrant caravan waiting at the Texas-Mexico border
The roughly 1,600 migrants, who are mostly Honduran, are being housed in a former warehouse in Piedras Negras — and being guarded by Mexican law enforcement — while they wait to be let into the U.S. But processing is slow.
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Beto O’Rourke to march, speak against border wall during Trump rally in El Paso
The rally comes as O’Rourke enters the final stages of deliberation over a potential presidential campaign.
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Congressional negotiators near border deal that would offer Trump less money for barriers than he has demanded
“I can tell you this just for sure. It’s not $5.7 billion for the wall. It’s not anywhere close,” said U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo.
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Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office hasn’t launched criminal investigations of voters flagged for citizenship review
Some lawmakers had fretted that sending the preliminary, faulty list to the state’s top prosecutor would intimidate voters.
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Trump falsely said El Paso was a hub of violent crime before the border fence. Now he’s holding a rally there.
This will be the president’s seventh rally in Texas and his first in El Paso.
