The federal government announced Monday that the Temporary Protected Status for Salvadoran immigrants will not be renewed after being in place since 2001. There are more than 260,000 Salvadoran immigrants with the status in the United States, including more than 36,000 in Texas.
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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The Taking
How a South Texas bureaucrat became a multimillionaire amid the rush to build a border fence
A decade ago as the federal government rushed to construct 60 miles of barrier in the Rio Grande Valley, it entrusted the chief of a little-known local agency to execute a compromise project. What it didn’t know was that he — and his family — stood to make millions from it.
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Politics
Federal board to reconsider asylum request of Mexican reporter and son
A Mexican reporter and his son who were on the verge of deportation earlier this month will be able to appeal their denial of an asylum claim, their lawyer confirmed on Thursday.
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The Taking: How the federal government abused its power to seize property for a border fence
Revisit our joint investigation with ProPublica that revealed how the federal government’s rushed, haphazard use of eminent domain led to unequal payments for border residents whose land was seized for a border fence.
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Graphics and data reporting
Listen to 5 Texas “Dreamers” on what it would mean to lose DACA
Listen to five Texas “Dreamers” – originally from Mexico, Pakistan, Peru and Togo – share how the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program changed their lives and what it would mean to lose it.
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Politics
O’Rourke, national press association call for Mexican reporter’s release
An effort to free Mexican reporter Emilio Gutiérrez and his son from immigration detention has garnered national attention. And now, a border congressman has also stepped in to advocate for the duo.
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Immigration
To curb border crossings, Trump administration weighs measures targeting families
The Trump administration is considering measures to halt a surge of Central American families and unaccompanied minors coming across the Mexican border, including a proposal to separate parents from their children.
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2017 Year in Review
From border wall fight to new “sanctuary” law, immigration dominated Texas news in 2017
President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration garnered a lion’s share of headlines in 2017. But the state’s Republican lawmakers weren’t about to be upstaged by Washington, D.C. on the hot-button issue.
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Demographics
Texas population grew to 28.3 million in 2017
Texas’ population grew to 28.3 million people this year, according to new Census Bureau estimates released Wednesday.
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The Taking
The Taking, illustrated: A Texas family’s story of losing land for the border fence
In comic strip form, read one border resident’s story of waiting nearly a decade for the government to pay for land it seized for the border fence.