The latest immigration news from The Texas Tribune.
The government’s primary “reunification and removal” site also went on lockdown for several hours Sunday after losing track of a male migrant, according to two lawyers and a Salvadoran woman released from the facility Monday. Full Story
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African immigrants arriving in Texas are finding a litany of unique racial, cultural and practical challenges to becoming legal residents in America. Full Story
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A young Guatemalan slept on a bridge for at least three days and nights while attempting to seek asylum. His wife and children had been separated after crossing that bridge just weeks earlier. This is the story of a family that faced seemingly every possible hurdle under Trump's immigration crackdown. Full Story
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A federal judge has ordered immigration officials to reunite all migrant children 5 and older with their parents by Thursday — but officials' own data shows that will be near impossible. Full Story
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The allegations come as the Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to build at least 33 miles of wall or other barriers in the Rio Grande Valley. Full Story
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In court filings, more than 200 migrants describe long waits for medical care, minimal access to legal services, verbal abuse from guards and untreated diaper rashes. Full Story
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On the brink of being released from detention and reunited with children separated from them sometimes months ago, migrant parents are held at a South Texas facility in a sort of limbo — not free to leave, but without access to phones or commissary accounts that regular detainees get. Full Story
Even after the Trump administration said it would reunify families separated under the now-paused “zero tolerance” policy, new data shows the number of children held in privately run shelters in Texas has continued to grow. Full Story
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Private shelter operators want to open as many as four new facilities to accommodate the continued influx of children. Full Story
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Mario, one of 32 immigrant parents transferred to an El Paso shelter earlier this month after being separated from their children at the border, was one of the last parents from the group to be reunited with their children. Full Story
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The government has a court-ordered deadline of July 26 to reunify the rest of the children. But last time it came up against a deadline, the government declared almost half the children "ineligible." Full Story
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At least 70 infants have been ordered to appear in immigration court after being separated from their parents. Full Story
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House members are expected to include the money in a spending bill, but the Senate's version includes only $1.6 billion for the wall. Full Story
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A government chart — part of a federal court brief — lays out what happens to immigrant children separated from the adults who brought them to the U.S. It shows three outcomes. Only one ends in reunification. Full Story
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Parents should have time to make an "informed, non-coerced decision" about whether they want to leave the country with their children, the ACLU had argued. Full Story
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We’re ramping up coverage of the family separation crisis. Can you help us raise $35,000 to staff a bureau in the Rio Grande Valley? Full Story
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A Salvadoran mother and her 16-year-old daughter — separated by U.S. authorities in mid-May — were finally reunited in Corpus Christi Friday. Tears dissolved into smiles as the two walked out of the Bokenkamp Children's Shelter. Full Story
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Maria Vandelice de Bastos, who was detained and separated from her disabled grandson after they sought asylum at a port of entry last year, has been released from federal custody. But her ordeal is far from over after an immigration judge dismissed her asylum case. Full Story
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The federal government completed its first round of family reunifications, but 45 percent of the children involved were not reconnected with the adults who brought them into the U.S. Full Story
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Emilio Gutiérrez Soto faced death threats for reporting on cartel crime and government corruption and fled to the U.S. with his son. A judge has set a hearing to determine whether the government has detained them in violation of the First Amendment. Full Story
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