Immigration and Customs Enforcement will implement new guidelines designed to better protect transgender people in immigration detention facilities, the agency announced Monday.
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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Demographics
Demand for Bilingual 911 Services Growing
While Texas continues its demographic march into diversity, only one city — El Paso — requires its 911 emergency call takers to be fluent in English and Spanish. Other cities are striving to keep up with the need to handle emergency calls in a wide range of languages.
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Criminal Justice
Advocates Call for Release of Some LGBT Asylum-Seekers
A growing number of asylum-seekers are asking for safe haven based on a factor that isn’t usually associated with a need to flee one’s homeland: gender identity. In the days before the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark gay marriage case, immigrant rights groups were drawing attention to the plight of LGBT immigrants.
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Demographics
See Demographics Shift by Texas County
Use our interactive to see how the demographics in your county have changed since 2010, according to race and ethnicity figures released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Demographics
Feds to Curtail Use of Family Detention Centers
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced Wednesday that families that enter the country illegally to seek asylum will no longer be detained after they’ve established a legitimate claim for relief.
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Interactive Map: Confederate Statues on Texas Capitol Grounds
There are more than a dozen monuments, markers and statues that reference the Confederacy on the Texas Capitol grounds. Use our interactive map — first published in 2012 — to find them.
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Criminal Justice
New Consul Takes on Mexico’s Texas Diaspora
In an interview with the Tribune, Carlos González Gutiérrez, Mexico’s newest general consul in Austin, discussed the challenges of reaching out to the state’s diverse communities of Mexican nationals, and how he interacts with state leaders at the Capitol.
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University of Texas/Texas Tribune Polls
UT/TT Poll: Texans Divided on Gay Marriage
Texas voters remain divided over a question — should same-sex couples be allowed to marry? — now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Demographics
Van de Putte Company Dropping Confederate Flags
Pete Van de Putte — owner of Dixie Flag Manufacturing Company and husband of former state Sen. and San Antonio mayoral candidate Leticia Van de Putte — changed his mind Tuesday and decided to stop making and selling Confederate flags.
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University of Texas/Texas Tribune Polls
UT/TT Poll: Texans Divided on Guns, Discrimination
Texans believe discrimination is a hard fact of life in the U.S., but they have dramatically different views on what groups fall victim to it, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
