Watch a 2019 Texas Tribune Festival conversation about 2020 and the border
In this discussion, panelists focused on how border and immigration policy and politics are shaping the 2020 landscape. Full Story
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![Ordered under the George W. Bush administration, a controversial incomplete border wall along the Rio Grande River in South Texas has had environmental and cultural impacts.]()
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Trump administration reaches deal to send asylum seekers to El Salvador
In an effort to deter migrants from seeking asylum in the United States, the administration wants to send them to the Central American nation. Full Story
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This migrant mother and her child couldn't wait for their asylum court date anymore. They drowned trying to enter the U.S.
The Honduran mother and son were found dead in the Rio Grande in Texas last week. They were sent to wait in Mexico while their asylum case played out in U.S. immigration court. Full Story
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Visa denial rates for highly skilled workers were already hurting Texas businesses before Trump administration ordered new limits
The Texas economy relies heavily on temporary work visas, like H-1Bs, to hire highly trained international employees. But there was un uptick in denial rates for H-1Bs even before the Trump administration moved to limit them. Full Story
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Along Texas border, Trump administration sets up tent courts for virtual asylum hearings
After passing a policy requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico until their cases can be heard, the administration has erected the tent complexes so immigration judges in San Antonio can hold hearings remotely. Full Story
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![This is the main holding area where asylum seekers will be held to be sorted out to the area they need to be sent. Sept. 10, 2019.]()
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Another budget fight looms this month in Congress centering on border wall funding
As lawmakers in Washington prepare a budget for the next fiscal year, funding for the border wall is taking center stage — again. Full Story
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![The border fence and levee passes through the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Hidalgo, Texas on Feb. 7, 2017.]()
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Julián Castro hit Joe Biden over Barack Obama’s immigration legacy. But in 2013, Castro supported Obama’s policies.
Castro hasn’t always been a liberal darling on border issues: In 2013, he gave a full-throated endorsement of the border and immigration policies advocated by Obama and touted the completion of enforcement measures that included fencing along the U.S-Mexico border. Full Story
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![Presidential candidate Julián Castro speaks to the crowd during a rally at Warehouse Live on Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, in Houston.]()
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Supreme Court lets Trump's rule for asylum seekers on southern border stand
The ruling made Wednesday allows the policy — which requires many migrants to seek asylum in countries other than the United States — to continue in the states on the nation's southern border. Full Story
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How the flow of migrants at the Texas border intersected with Trump's policies
During Donald Trump’s presidency, his administration introduced controversial policies like “zero tolerance” and the Migrant Protection Protocols, known as “remain in Mexico”, to curb migration at the Southwest border. Most migrants cross into Texas. Here's how the flow of people intersected with Trump’s policies. Full Story
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![Migrant families who turned themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol to seek asylum after illegally crossing the Rio Grande are loaded onto a transport bus in Hidalgo on Aug. 23, 2019.]()
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Migrant mother and her lawyer refused to take "no" for an answer from U.S. border agents
An attorney from the Rio Grande Valley recently pushed back against the Trump administration's Remain in Mexico Policy. She tried to get her client — who was nearly eight months pregnant — paroled and back into Texas. Full Story
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![Yulisa waits on the international bridge that stretches over the Rio Grande from Brownsville to Matamoros, Mexico. Yulisa is almost eight months pregnant.]()
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Federal officials credit Trump's crackdown after border apprehensions dropped in August
The monthly total is the lowest since January — and less than half of this year's peak in May. Full Story
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![A group of asylum seekers crossed the border between El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico on the Fourth of July. the group, two more trailing, turned themselves in to waiting Border Patrol Agents. Migrants Enter United States On Fourth Of July]()
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Judge blocks Trump's rule for asylum seekers on southern border
The rule would allow U.S. officials to deny asylum to immigrants who passed through another country before reaching the border. Monday’s ruling blocks the policy across the U.S.-Mexico border. Full Story
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Two years after Trump announced an end to DACA, "Dreamers" look ahead with hope and anxiety
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on the case in November. Its decision will affect hundreds of thousands who received protections under the Obama administration. Full Story
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The number of migrant children in Texas shelters dropped dramatically in 2019
For the sixth month in a row, the number of migrant children in Texas shelters decreased in November. Full Story
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Gov. Greg Abbott says “mistakes were made” in his fundraising letter before the El Paso shooting
The governor’s comments come after reports emerged of a two-page fundraising mailer that warned of a liberal plan to "to transform Texas — and our entire country — through illegal immigration." Full Story
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![Gov. Greg Abbott meets with El Paso area state legislators on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, four days after a mass murderer killed 22 people at a WalMart in El Paso.]()
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‘Take the land’: President Trump wants a border wall. He wants it black. And he wants it by Election Day.
So far, federal agencies have managed to erect about 60 miles of replacement barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border. Full Story
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After tragedy in El Paso, a special visa could be available to some survivors
The special permit, referred to as a U visa, was created by Congress specifically for victims of certain crimes who could help with criminal investigations. But petitioners must follow a lengthy, bureaucratic process to apply. Full Story
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ICE’s chief called family detention "summer camp." Here’s what it looks like inside.
More than a year after he drew criticism for comparing family detention to a “summer camp,” the nation’s top immigration enforcer gave a tour of one of the facilities where families are held. Full Story
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![Dilley, TX August 23, 2019: Mothers and children eat lunch in the cafeteria located at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) South Texas Family Residential Facility outside Dilley. The 55 acre campus is currently home to about 900 mothers and children awaiting immigration hearings or deportation.]()
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Feds plan to make housing assistance harder for undocumented immigrants. Few in Texas are even getting it.
Undocumented immigrants don't qualify for federal housing assistance. But a new U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development rule barring such residents from subsidized homes could prompt evictions of families. Full Story
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After asylum ruling, migrants in Juárez face a new choice: stay in line or try crossing elsewhere
A federal court ruled last week that the U.S. government could reject asylum seekers who failed to seek protection in other countries first — but only applied the ruling to Texas and New Mexico. Will that push migrants to try their luck in Arizona and California? Full Story
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![Workers from the Centro de Atención Integral a Migrantes (CAIM) call out numbers from the waiting list outside the center in Ciudad Juárez on May 13, 2019. Migrants go the center twice a day to hear numbers from a waitlist called out. If their number is called, they are allowed to enter the U.S. to be processed by CBP.]()
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