The latest immigration news from The Texas Tribune.
Texas' challenge of the Obama-era immigration program on Wednesday focused on what harm the program has done to the state, if DACA violated federal procedures and what took Texas so long to file its lawsuit. Full Story
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Homeland Security Press Secretary Tyler Houlton hailed the numbers as evidence that the Trump administration’s recent crackdown at the border has deterred immigrants from trying to cross into the country illegally. Full Story
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Just as Texas stopped sending foster children to centers operated by one man, the U.S. government tossed him a new source of money: immigrant kids. Full Story
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“It’s clear the administration’s goal is to deny and deport as many people as possible, as quickly as possible," said Jennifer Chang Newell, an attorney with the ACLU's Immigrants’ Rights Project. Full Story
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A head-spinning sequence of events appears to have put the Trump administration right where it started: running a "catch and release" immigration system in which families crossing the border illegally stay in the country as the government processes their asylum claims. Full Story
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For every migrant parent federal officials fail to locate, U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw said, "there will be a permanently orphaned child." Full Story
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For the next three months, Tribune reporters, photographers and videographers will team up with journalists at TIME to jointly produce articles and documentary-style video from the Rio Grande Valley. Full Story
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The alleged incidents are part of a series of accusations of sexual abuse inside the government’s immigrant youth shelters. Full Story
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A mother of three U.S. citizens says she believed all her life she was an American. But after she helped put away a relative who sexually abused her child, her life unraveled. She's languishing in immigration detention. Full Story
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Several new facilities have already opened this summer, and the federal government has requested up to 15,500 beds at two Texas military bases. Full Story
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After President Trump vowed to phase out Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which protects immigrants brought into the U.S. as children from deportation, federal courts stepped in — and Texas is suing to end the program. Full Story
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Some 400 parents were sent back to their native countries without their children. As an official with the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency put it, “we don’t keep track of individuals once they’ve been deported to foreign countries.” Full Story
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Two weeks ago, we asked readers to help us raise $35,000 to send two reporters to the Rio Grande Valley to ramp up our coverage of the family separation crisis. As of today, we’re thrilled to report we’ve raised nearly $75,000. Full Story
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The Shiloh Treatment Center near Manvel has been accused of drugging young immigrants to keep them docile. About 25 youths are affected by the order. Full Story
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Emilio Gutiérrez Soto and his son Oscar spent seven months in federal detention. Their release comes a day before a court-ordered deadline for federal officials to turn over emails about why the two were detained. Full Story
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Some parents have been declared ineligible because of "red flags" in their records. But many haven't been reunified because immigration officials already deported them. Full Story
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The government says that more than 100 migrant parents chose not to be reunited with their children by Thursday's deadline. Lawyers who interviewed these migrants say they're on that list by mistake or worse. Full Story
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On this week's TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Patrick and Emma about Texas' mold-infested state health services building, whether the feds will meet a court-ordered deadline for migrant family reunifications and why some Republican statewide officials have no incentive to debate their Democratic opponents. Full Story
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There's a big difference between what policy is supposed to do and what it actually does. The family separation fiasco on the U.S.-Mexico border is a perfect example. Full Story
For the second time, it looks like the government's efforts to reunify separated migrant families will be stymied by its own bureaucratic failings. Full Story
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