More Migrants Are Drowning in the Rio Grande Than Ever. No Agency Is Keeping Track of How Many.
U.S. policy is designed to force those entering Texas to cross at dangerous choke points. Those who don't make it are often never identified.
U.S. policy is designed to force those entering Texas to cross at dangerous choke points. Those who don't make it are often never identified.
Texas’s attorney general is suing to revoke the license of a Catholic migrant aid center in El Paso. Leaders of such aid groups say they’re simply practicing their faith.
The beleaguered attorney general has announced a lawsuit targeting El Paso’s Annunciation House, claiming—without evidence—that it and other NGOs “facilitate astonishing horrors.”
Hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants could be affected by a forthcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision—and it could all come down to how justices interpret a single word.
At “Take Our Border Back” rallies across Texas, the convoy’s Christian nationalist rhetoric was on wide display. But not all soldiers are equally devout.
For almost three years, Texas DPS agents worked hand in hand with the feds, but their partnership has unraveled into a bitter standoff in Eagle Pass.
Long thought of as a presidential contender, the Texas governor has endorsed the former president—and supplicated for his favor.
Residents of El Paso and Sunland Park, New Mexico, agree illegal immigration is a problem, but the Texas governor’s newest effort is little more than a PR stunt.
In the latest showdown over immigration restrictions, Texas representatives got into a heated confrontation on the floor.
The Houston exurb offers cheap land to hardworking families. But some in the GOP see the benefit in demonizing the migrants who’ve moved there.
Rick Perry rides a gunboat. Ted Cruz goes militiaman. Ron DeSantis and George P. Bush try their best.
Will tequila and trucks get more expensive? Will exports of chemicals and plastics to Mexico boom? What will happen to immigration?
The Texas GOP, which once advocated for a more humane immigration policy, is wedded to Operation Lone Star despite its exorbitant costs and failures.
Weeks after the Biden Administration ended the Trump-Imposed Title 42 regulations, the border near El Paso remains unexpectedly quiet.
Hint: if one of them were Baker Mayfield, he could pass a football to the folks on either side of him.
After the latest bloodbaths in Allen and Cleveland, the governor turned to a familiar playbook of deflection.
Police have detained the driver but are still investigating whether the crash was intentional or accidental.
Friedrich Ernst’s missive portrayed Texas as a paradise. His wife and daughter begged to differ.
The administration’s new border policy has slowed the flow of asylum seekers, while frustrating those who are trying to follow the rules.
It’s not yet clear what caused the fire at a migrant center near El Paso that claimed 39 lives and injured 29 men.
As state politicians focus on danger and cartel violence, the border town's downtown is undergoing a renaissance.
The Biden administration has replaced key elements of our 50-year-old asylum system with “CBP One,” a smartphone application. It looks like the future—but potentially a dystopian one.
Governor Greg Abbott’s scheme to transport asylum seekers to Democrat-run cities has been called a cynical PR stunt. It is—but if tweaked, it could be a good idea.
The president’s brief trip to the Texas border city Sunday inflamed critics of his immigration policies on both the left and right.
As the federal judiciary has shifted to the right, many who represent migrants are wary of bringing Operation Lone Star before the nation’s highest courts.
Twenty months after the former president left office, those who carried out his administration’s cruelest policy are still in place.
The Texas governor’s plan has been adopted by Ron DeSantis in Florida, and it has grown crueler as it spreads.
Kevin McCarthy’s trip to Eagle Pass laid bare the bipartisan bankruptcy of U.S. policy.
A legal expert says the governor’s effective blockading of the border could have violated the U.S. Constitution.
The governor’s move to bus migrants to D.C. may be an attempt to stick it to Joe Biden, but it’s playing out in ways he didn’t anticipate.
When undocumented immigrants venture near campuses, many schools institute security protocols. But criminal acts by migrants aren't common.
The governor's plans to bus migrants to D.C. and ramp up vehicle inspections at ports of entry have little to do with federal immigration policy.
The Patriots for America answered Kinney County's call for help cracking down on immigration. The group's methods concern civil liberties groups.
In ‘You Sound Like a White Girl,’ Julissa Arce combines memoir and history to reclaim the Latino identity she pushed away as an undocumented immigrant.
When I opened my morning paper a few days ago, the front page featured an article about yet another caravan of Hondurans heading to Texas. Many are fleeing the violence in that country, which suffers from one of the highest murder rates in the world. But why do they come
After the ‘Del Rio News-Herald’ shuttered last year, Frank Lopez Jr., who broadcasts as “US Border Patriot,” found a national audience.
The record influx of recent arrivals from all over might be exactly what the state needs. That includes Californians. (And no, they’re not turning Texas blue.)
No county in Texas has arrested more migrants under the governor’s plan to crack down on the border, and it’s created a judicial crisis.
The incident serves as a reminder that, over the past two centuries, hundreds of migrants and Texans of Mexican descent have been murdered.
The linebacker arrived in the United States at ten, knowing nothing about football. Now he's stealing the show on HBO's ‘Hard Knocks.’
Governor Greg Abbott has sent a thousand state cops into Texas border communities to combat smuggling. But many locals complain that they are more of a nuisance than an effective crime-fighting force.
Texas Democrats felt slighted by the president’s campaign in 2020, but Emmy Ruiz and Natalie Montelongo have given them a voice in the White House.
Along the border, forensic experts such as Corinne Stern have dealt with a surge in migrant deaths during the Biden administration.
The Harris County sheriff has been overshadowed by more-vocal Houston officials, but he’s earned a reputation as an effective reformer.
Following the election, many migrants were hopeful the incoming president would quickly ease the U.S. immigration process, but he has to unravel new restrictions imposed by his predecessor.
The film follows Texans who are waiting, hoping, and fighting for news of their missing sons.
Learning to love Texas’s most iconic country musician, one song at a time.
Dalila Reynoso, who started a friendship with Sheriff Larry Smith at Whataburger, now monitors local jails to keep him accountable.
Many immigration attorneys have called for hearings to be delayed, but cases are nonetheless proceeding by phone and video.
In Texas’s ICE facilities, immigrants remain in close quarters and sanitizer is running short. Advocates worry a COVID-19 outbreak could be severe.