O’Rourke, other Dems urge public to keep Tornillo migrant facility in spotlight
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The population at the detention center for migrant children has swelled from a few hundred to about 2,800 in about six months. Continue Reading
Border-area officials could get a funding boost to help ID human remains
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The Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains Act of 2018 would allow border counties to apply for federal grants to help identify bodies of undocumented immigrants. Continue Reading
Government reverses course, sends migrant boy back to his father
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More than 11 weeks after separating a young Salvadoran boy from his father and claiming, without evidence, that his father was a gang member, the Department of Homeland Security returned the boy. Continue Reading
A court ruling may allow migrant families to be held indefinitely. These families know what that could be like.
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Migrant children are not supposed to be detained for more than 20 days in unlicensed facilities. Texas may be able to license two family detention centers, in Dilley and Karnes County, after an appeals court ruling last week. Continue Reading
With contract set to expire, no word on what’s next for Tornillo immigration center
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After receiving several contract extensions, the tent city’s operators say they want the government to find a long-term solution. But they also don’t want to abandon the children held there. Continue Reading
No one on the inside can talk about what’s happening at the Tornillo tent city
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The secrecy surrounding the camp has frustrated longtime residents of Tornillo and alarmed lawyers and advocates who question its conditions. Continue Reading
A defendant shows up in immigration court by himself. He’s 6.
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Wilder Hilario Maldonado Cabrera was the youngest defendant on the juvenile docket that day, and he was one of the last children left in government custody who had been affected by the zero-tolerance policy. Continue Reading
Proposed NM rule change would let immigrants work as lawyers regardless of federal status
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If adopted, New Mexico would join a handful of states in explicitly allowing undocumented immigrants to practice law after passing a bar exam. Continue Reading
Families are still being separated at the border, months after ‘zero tolerance’ was reversed
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Immigration lawyers say border agents are again removing children from their parents. Continue Reading
Government could hold migrant families indefinitely in unlicensed detention centers under new plan
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New Trump administration regulations would dismantle the landmark Flores agreement. Continue Reading
As the border wall grows, smuggling tunnels proliferate
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How do you secure a border below ground? Continue Reading
Trump moves to deny asylum for immigrants who enter the U.S. between ports of entry
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The emergency rule change comes as a caravan of Central American migrants is slowly making its way to the United States’ border with Mexico. Continue Reading
Asylum-seeking migrants’ lives are suspended in the borderlands
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For the past two weeks migrants, principally from Central America and Cuba, have transformed the side of the Santa Fe Bridge leading into El Paso into a rudimentary ‘tent’ city. Continue Reading
The government won’t talk about its training for officers and troops at the border
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How well are government forces trained to deal with a large group of civilians? Continue Reading
While Trump ramps up rhetoric, military presence makes some border residents nervous
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Thursday’s was the latest in a series of declarations from the president about immigration in the run-up to Tuesday’s midterm elections. Continue Reading