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HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Texas on Friday upheld a key piece of President Joe Biden’s immigration policy that allows a limited number of migrants from four countries to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds, dismissing a challenge from Republican-led states that said the program created an economic burden on them. U.S. District […]
As record numbers of people cross into the United States, the southern border is not the only place where the migration crisis is playing out. Nearly three thousand miles to the south, inside Colombia’s main international airport, hundreds of African migrants have been pouring in every day, paying traffickers roughly $10,000 for flight packages they […]
In a dilapidated farm shed in New York’s rural North Country, the belongings of a migrant family who quietly took shelter one night were still visible months later: some clothing and children’s shoes, stiffened by the cold and a thin blanket of snow. Thomas Brassard recalled his surprise when he saw the family — a […]
Washington — A trio of senators on Sunday released a bipartisan immigration agreement with the White House that would give the president far-reaching powers to clamp down on unlawful border crossings, including the authority to turn away migrants without allowing them to request asylum. The deal, which has been months in the making, would overhaul […]
The Guatemalan Migration Institute reports that a caravan of some 500 migrants that departed northern Honduras in hopes of reaching the United States has dissolved after crossing the border into Guatemala January 21, 2024, 5:43 PM ET • 2 min read MEXICO CITY — A caravan of some 500 migrants that departed northern Honduras in […]
Eagle Pass, Texas CNN — As the surge of migrants continues to overwhelm authorities at the US-Mexico border, tensions between Texas and federal officials are escalating. Here are the latest developments: Texas authorities arrested migrants at Shelby . . .
The U.S. Homeland Security Department said Saturday that Texas denied federal agents access to a stretch of the border when they were trying to rescue three migrants who drowned. The federal government’s account came hours after U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar said the Texas Military Department and Texas National Guard “did not grant access to Border […]
Kaylee Greenlee Beal/Reuters Texas National Guard troops control who enters and exits Shelby Park at the US-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, on January 12, 2024. CNN — Three migrants, a woman and two children, drowned Saturday in the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas – very recently the epicenter of the migrant crisis – […]
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas congressman said Saturday that three migrants, including two children, drowned while trying to reach the U.S. near the border city of Eagle Pass, where the Biden administration says Texas has begun denying access to Border Patrol agents. U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, accused the state of failing […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Three migrants drowned in the Rio Grande, near the Eagle Pass park that Texas troopers have taken control over, U.S. Rep.