While President Trump’s order sending National Guard to address a “crisis” to the border has garnered national attention, those living in the Rio Grande Valley see a gap between perception and reality.
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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Texas is resettling almost 80 percent fewer refugees
“There’s a stark contrast to what the refugee resettlement program looks like now compared to in past years,” said Erica Schmidt-Portnoy, the area director for Refugee Services of Texas in Austin.
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Politics
Immigrants in Texas are among the least likely to have a lawyer, most likely to get deported
Less than 30 percent of immigrants facing deportation proceedings in Texas have lawyers, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
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Congress
El Paso Border Patrol sector kicks off construction of Trump’s wall on border
U.S. Border Patrol agents on Monday announced the beginning of construction on the “big, beautiful wall” that President Donald Trump promised to build on the southern border.
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Immigration
Texas National Guard deploys troops to Texas-Mexico border
The Texas National Guard plans to send hundreds more in coming days after President Donald Trump called for stronger U.S. military protection there. The federal deployments come after Texas lawmakers in recent years agreed to spend more than $2 billion in state money on border protection.
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Families Divided
Federal government tells border prosecutors to adopt “zero-tolerance” policy on immigration
The U.S. Department of Justice’s directive tells federal prosecutors on the southwest border to prosecute all Department of Homeland Security referrals for alleged violations of federal immigration illegal-entry laws.
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Immigration
Donald Trump is deploying troops to the border. But border crossings are lower than they have been.
As the Trump administration prepares to deploy National Guard units to the border, a look at the federal government’s own statistics show that, despite a recent spike, overall border crossings are at historic lows.
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Politics
Immigration judge says quota mandate will do more harm than good to an already clogged system
A mandate handed down by the Trump administration designed to speed up activity within the country’s clogged immigration court system could actually have the opposite effect, the president of the National Association of Immigration Judges said Wednesday.
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Immigration
Trump to sign proclamation sending National Guard units to U.S.-Mexico border
The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday announced the National Guard will once again be deployed to the country’s southern border in an effort to stop illegal immigration into the country.
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Economy
Abbott urges Trump administration to protect two key NAFTA provisions
As the future of NAFTA remains in flux, Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday asked the country’s top trade representative to retain two long-standing provisions of the trade pact that have boosted the Texas economy.