Detention Camp For Migrant Teens In Texas Is Shutting DownThe Tornillo facility with capacity for 360 children opened last June in an isolated pocket of the Texas desert. It expanded into a guarded detention camp that held more than 2,700 largely Central American teens in rows of canvas tents.
Groups Demand End To Info-Sharing On Asylum-Seeking ChildrenMore than 100 ivil-liberties and immigrant-rights groups claim HHS and DHS are using information on U.S.-based relatives obtained from detained children to "arrest and deport those families."
Texas Desert Detention Camp For Migrant Kids Still GrowingA temporary shelter for hundreds of migrant children in the Texas desert has expanded into a detention camp holding thousands of teenagers.
Texas Voters Say Immigration Is Top Issue Facing NationVoters casting midterm election ballots in Texas are divided over the state of the nation, according to a wide-ranging survey of the American electorate.
Trial Set To Begin In Dispute Over Census Citizenship QueryA federal judge is poised to hear evidence from critics of a Commerce Department decision to put a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.
New Deal Keeps Open Facility That Detains Immigrant FamiliesThe U.S. government has quietly reached a new agreement to keep open a 2,400-bed detention facility used to detain immigrant mothers and children in Texas.
Border Officials Alarmed By Migrants Abandoned In The DesertUnlike Texas, where people turn themselves in on the banks of the Rio Grande, smugglers in Arizona have been dumping groups of migrant families in the desert.
DHS To Waive Laws For New Border Gates In South TexasThe U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that it will waive environmental laws so it can build gates between sections of border barriers in South Texas.
Texas Nonprofit Housing Migrant Kids Could Have License RevokedTexas-based Southwest Key demonstrated an "astonishingly flippant attitude" toward Arizona's concerns about delayed background checks for workers.
Federal Agency Says It Lost Track Of 1,488 Migrant ChildrenTwice in less than a year, the federal government has lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children after placing them in the homes of sponsors across the country.
Family Arrivals Surge At U.S.-Mexico Border In AugustU.S. border authorities arrested dramatically more immigrant families at the Mexico border in August compared to previous months.
