Texas officials have sued a Houston area postpartum center as well as investigated Rio Grande Valley hospitals over allegations of soliciting foreigners to have babies on U.S. soil.
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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ICE should continue traffic stops despite recent shootings, Trump says, seeming to oppose new suspension
The president’s social media post comes a day after federal sources said ICE suspended all traffic stops following fatal shootings in Houston and Maine.
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Crowd packs Houston City Hall to demand action, express anger after ICE shooting
“There is no point in pretending that ICE is here to protect us,” a resident told the City Council in its first meeting since an immigration agent killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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TribCast: An ICE shooting roils Houston
In this week’s episode, our hosts speak with Texas Tribune reporters Uriel J. García and Colleen DeGuzman about the unanswered questions and investigations in response to the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Houston ICE shooting strains already tense relations between U.S., Mexico
Mexico’s president said her government will file complaints and lawsuits over 17 deaths related to U.S. immigration enforcement.
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What we still don’t know about the ICE shooting in Houston
Federal agencies and investigators have offered limited information, prompting calls for outside scrutiny.
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Houston protesters call on feds to release more information, and witnesses, to Tuesday’s ICE killing
Protesters demanded feds release footage of the shooting and the three men who were in the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo before he was killed.
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Fatal Houston ICE shooting follows agency’s increased focus on street arrests
The risk of violent encounters rises when immigration enforcement shifts from picking up suspected criminals in jail to arresting people on the streets, experts say.
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Houston mayor vows local investigation into ICE shooting but says feds aren’t sharing information
“They control the scene, the deceased, the van, the witnesses. So yes, they control the investigation,” Mayor John Whitmire said.
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Days after fatal ICE shooting, Texas GOP leaders remain silent about calls for independent probes
Almost none of the state’s major Republican officials have weighed in on the killing of a Houston man by federal agents, and U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia of Houston said she had not spoken with Gov. Greg Abbott.
