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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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Graphics and data reporting
Migrant apprehensions are down at the Texas border. Have state policies had an impact?
Abbott has credited his Operation Lone Star for a recent drop in migrant encounters on the Texas-Mexico border.
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Congress
Ukraine and Israel aid bills split Texans in Congress — but not along party lines
Hardline conservatives opposed the bills without more legislation to harden the southern border. And some progressives wanted more protections for Palestinians.
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Immigration
Texas investigating Guard member after border shooting incident
News reports cite a Border Patrol bulletin that said an Indiana Guard member wounded a migrant who was stabbing another migrant at the border in El Paso.
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Immigration
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar warns that using federal aid to help migrants travel makes San Antonio a “magnet”
The city will get an additional $17.8 million to help migrants. Cuellar, who created the grant program in 2014, said it was never intended to help migrants travel to other cities.
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Demographics
Años antes de que los caracterizaran como criminales, los residentes de Colony Ridge buscaron ayuda del estado
Los residentes presentaron más de 60 quejas en contra de Colony Ridge. No obtuvieron muchas soluciones del estado.
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Higher Education
Texas Democrats call on colleges to set aside financial aid money for immigrant families affected by FAFSA glitch
Students whose parents do not have Social Security numbers have been blocked from completing the federal financial aid form.
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Criminal Justice
Texas National Guard member charged with human smuggling after high-speed chase near the border
Authorities said the 26-year-old turned around at a Border Patrol checkpoint and fled from police in Kinney County.
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State Government
Texas, Biden administration take their battle over new immigration law to federal appeals court
A panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals will decide whether to keep in place a lower court’s block of Senate Bill 4, which makes illegally entering Texas a state crime.