Category: Immigration
The Dialysis Dilemma: Denying Undocumented Immigrants Medical Services
Undocumented immigrants usually don’t qualify for treatment for kidney disease—until it becomes life-threatening and much more expensive.
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A Rio Grande Valley Love Story
Brownsville police officer Valerie Rivas was charged with smuggling her undocumented boyfriend across the border. She’s been acquitted. He’s likely to be deported.
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Tornillo Tent City Will Expand To Hold Even More Migrant Kids
The facility near El Paso will more than double its capacity for unaccompanied minors, expanding to 3,800 beds.
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The Trump Administration Is Targeting Latino Texans Who Are U.S. Citizens
With the government questioning the authenticity of their birth certificates, some Texans worry that even providing additional documentation won’t be enough.
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Dozens of Immigrant Parents Remain Separated From Their Children
A month after a federal judge’s deadline more than 500 children remain in federal custody and away from their families.
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A Four-Year-Old Reunites With His Mother in a Journey That Is Far From Over
The reunion came on deadline day for a court-ordered reunification of separated immigrant families.
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Separated Parents Coerced Into Waiving Reunification With Their Children, Affidavits Say
Many Spanish-speaking parents said they did not understand the English documents they were signing.
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Hundreds of Immigrant Families Will Remain Separated Even If Government Meets Thursday Deadline
A federal judge praised the government effort, but expressed concern that hundreds of immigrant parents may have been deported without their children.
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Putting Asylum-Seeking Immigrants in Impossible Positions
Rio Grande Valley attorney Jennifer Harbury explains the nightmares facing immigrants today, whether they gain entry or are turned away.
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Family Reunifications Begin in Earnest in Three Texas Cities
While that’s good news, immigration advocates, fearful of mass deportations, have gotten a judge to issue a stay temporarily halting deportations.
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In El Paso, Immigrants Reunited With Their Small Children Tell Their Stories of Detention, Separation, and Release
Among the revelations: Families were separated despite legal entry, and at least one child said he was hit by a caregiver.
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Battle Over Houston Child Detention Facility Heats Up
Austin nonprofit Southwest Key wants to open a facility for immigrant children in Houston’s East End. Mayor Sylvester Turner has other ideas.
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Records Reveal Southwest Key Cited for Hundreds of Violations in the Last Three Years
While the nonprofit’s shelters are generally well regarded among immigration advocates, the wealth of violations is alarming.
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Texas Companies Turned Down Lucrative No-Bid Contracts to Expand Child Immigrant Camp
The refusal by the two firms to take on a yearlong contract came one day before Trump announced the end of family separation.
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Agency Overseeing Separated Kids is Telling Immigration Officials Who is Claiming the Children
Officials say the four-month-old policy could have a chilling affect on the government’s ability to release children to relatives.
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Mo Knows Immigration: Houston Comic Mo Amer on His Own Journey to Citizenship
In our latest podcast, host Andy Langer speaks with Amer as the comedian prepares to record his first Netflix special.
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Abbott Caught in His Own Duplicity on Family Separations
Governor declared only Congress can fix family separations shortly before the president ended the policy.
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Melania Trump Wears “I Really Don’t Care” Jacket on the Way to McAllen Shelter for Immigrant Children
Her spokesperson claimed ‘there was no hidden message.’ And it certainly was not hidden.
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Southwest Key Hired Child Case Manager Previously Arrested for Child Pornography
The man, a former Border Patrol agent, worked directly with children.
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Does the Bible Justify Family Separation at the Border?
A day before Jeff Sessions and Sarah Huckabee Sanders used the Bible to justify separating immigrant families, a resolution from the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas had already contradicted them.
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