The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, is alleging that a provision in the $2.2 trillion stimulus package known as the CARES Act that denies the benefit to mixed-status families in unconstitutional.
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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Meatpacking workers in Texas Panhandle have little power to avoid the coronavirus
A workforce of immigrants has long powered the massive JBS meatpacking plant in Cactus, where a cluster of coronavirus cases is under investigation. They’re risking their lives each shift in the county with the state’s highest known infection rate.
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Trump signs order pausing immigration for 60 days, with exceptions
The order doesn’t apply to many categories of immigrants, but Immigrant advocates worry that the order is the beginning of even stricter measures.
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President Donald Trump says he’s temporarily halting immigration during coronavirus pandemic
Trump tweeted Monday night that he will issue an executive order but gave few details about what it would do — or when he would issue it.
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Laredo, a key Texas border crossing, uses strict coronavirus measures as it fears spread to rest of U.S.
With curfews, anti-gathering orders and a requirement to wear masks, Laredo has implemented some of the strictest protective measures in the nation.
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She’s an undocumented immigrant, a taxpayer and an essential worker. But she won’t get a stimulus check.
About 8% of Texas workers are undocumented, and because they’re not eligible for stimulus payments, many are facing tough choices during the pandemic.
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Broken Border
Government watchdog: Millions wasted on Tornillo migrant detention facility
The Government Accountability Office found that the government spent $66 million in taxpayer money over five months to hold an average of 28 people per day at the tent encampment near El Paso.
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Under coronavirus immigration measures, U.S. is expelling border-crossers to Mexico in an average of 96 minutes
The pandemic has allowed the U.S. Border Patrol to implement the kind of rapid-fire deportation system President Donald Trump has long extolled as his preferred approach.
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Migrants say COVID-19 fears led to disturbance in Texas immigration detention center
About 60 detainees in the South Texas ICE Processing Center staged an uprising this week. Some detainees say fear of infection sparked the incident; Immigration and Customs Enforcement disputes that account.
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TribCast
TribCast: How coronavirus is affecting Texas workers, immigrants and the courts
On this week’s TribCast — a different format in the time of the new coronavirus — Alexa talks to Mitchell, Julián and Jolie about rising unemployment in Texas, the outbreak’s effect on immigrants and delayed justice in the court system.