Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border.
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Vehicle pursuits and the resulting "bailouts" played a major role in school officials' and law enforcement's response to the 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting. It leaves lasting consequences.
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Texas National Guardsmen are now authorized to make immigration arrests at the border, based on an agreement between the state and the Trump administration.
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Republican Senator Ted Cruz declared victory against his Democratic challenger, Dallas Congressman Colin Allred, to win a third term as Texas’s junior senator.
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As a staunch advocate for increased border legislation, the mother of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray said she doesn't feel that her pain has been exploited for political purposes.
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After the expiration of a deadline to appeal a court ruling, the Biden administration must continue building a border wall using roughly $1.4 billion Congress allocated for a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Three years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would take the extraordinary step of building a state-funded wall along the Mexico border, he has 34 miles of steel bollards to show for it.
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While Biden said Tuesday the intent is to “gain control of our border, [and] restore order to the process,” analysts see this proclamation as a short term solution, but hard to determine if these new measures would work.
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At least two Texas border mayors are headed to Washington on Tuesday when President Joe Biden is expected to announce an executive order that will mark his latest and most aggressive plan to curtail the number of migrants allowed to seek asylum in the U.S.
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Border communities now await the fate of a state law that allows police to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. If found guilty, a magistrate judge could expel that person to Mexico— even if they are not Mexican.
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Two different groups surged through an El Paso border gate. An El Paso judge has twice thrown out the resulting criminal charges.
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In a recent television interview, Abbott highlighted a decrease in the number of migrants trying to enter the country through the Rio Grande into Eagle Pass. But immigration and foreign policy experts say the reasons driving the recent shift are much more complicated.
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Arrests for crossing the U.S. border illegally fell slightly in March, authorities said Friday, bucking a usual spring increase amid increased immigration enforcement in Mexico.
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The state of Texas charged 214 migrants with “riot participation” for their involvement in tearing down a temporary chain link fence and pushing past Texas National Guard troops in March.
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Implementation of SB 4, a Texas law that allows local and state police officers to arrest people suspected of being in the country illegally, was once again put on hold Monday by the United States Supreme Court.
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The United States Supreme Court has put on hold a federal appeals court decision that would have allowed Texas’ controversial immigration-enforcement law, Senate Bill 4, to go into effect as early as this weekend.
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President Joe Biden on Thursday called on Congress, once again, to pass a stalled bipartisan border security deal he says is needed to address the influx of illegal migration.
Biden is expected to visit Brownsville, and Trump is expected to head to Eagle Pass.
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The state of Texas squared off against the U.S. Department of Justice and a coalition of immigrant rights groups in federal court on Thursday over whether a new state border enforcement bill is constitutional.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection finds migrant encounters along the southwest border dropped significantly in January.
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