Welcoming the Stranger: Faces of the Refugee Crisis
Six stories of refugees resettled in Houston.
Six stories of refugees resettled in Houston.
Texans may already have paid for part of President Trump’s signature proposal.
Do sheriffs have to comply with sanctuary city regulations?
Fact checking the governor’s state of the state address.
Our favorite political reads of the week.
Consumers, refineries, computer makers, and Toyota could feel the pain from new president's proposals.
Talking with former U.S. ambassador Antonio Garza about what Trump means for Mexico—and Texas.
There’s a growing movement to make Texas college campuses safe for undocumented immigrants.
Manuel Padilla, the Border Patrol’s new sector chief in the Rio Grande Valley, promises to stem the influx of people and drugs into Texas. That may sound fanciful, but consider this: he did it in Arizona.
Thanks to Donald Trump, we now know that “amnesty” is acceptable to most Republicans.
He was just a regular kid in South Texas, until a brush with the law propelled Gabriel Cardona into petty crime—and the service of a drug lord rising to power across the Rio Grande. In this exclusive excerpt from Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico’s Most Dangerous Drug Cartel, Dan
Surveillance is part of daily life on the border. But how much do the people watching us know? What do they see? And how much of our privacy are we willing to sacrifice in the name of security?
What they want is for the border, and its problems, to be understood.
The McKinney Boyd valedictorian whose speech about being undocumented went viral explains why she spoke out.
Welcome to the Texas border, home of the two busiest federal court districts in the nation.
The proposed pilot program would erect walls with New Mexico, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.
The governor is threatening to take funds from local police departments that have “sanctuary city” policies, but are those threats even warranted?
His comments about Syrian refugees have gotten him national attention and could push more Texans to follow his lead.
According to the governor, local mayors aren’t allowed to ban firearms in their city halls, and religious charities can only help people he approves of.
Come back through, Willie/Snoop/Nelly/Fiona Apple!
According to Blanca Borrego's family, she was taken into an exam room where sheriff's deputies were waiting for her.
Over half of the GOP's presidential candidates want to end birthright citizenship, but they're not standing by the Constitution.
Step one: Let’s examine our own insecurities.
It’s not what you might think it is.
The U.S.-Mexico border provides plenty of economic benefits for Texas cities. Trump doesn’t want to see that.
The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Friday.
An interview with Bill and Turner Ross, whose Sundance award-winning documentary about border life, Western, screens at SXSW Film.
On Thursday, the president said that Congress had left him no choice but to act alone. Conservatives can argue otherwise.
The area in and around Anzalduas Park, on the Rio Grande, has become an epicenter of the latest border crisis, a place where residents confront promise and peril as they deal with a reality as old as the river itself.
It's unclear if any troops have used the charity resource, but it's bad optics surrounding the already controversial decision to send the National Guard to the border.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in El Paso stand accused of violating the confidentiality of dozens of Sikh asylum seekers detained in their facility.
The resignation of longtime sheriff Lupe Treviño in March didn't end the funny business in Hidalgo County law enforcement.
Disgruntled agents are overwhelmed and overworked, processing groups of hundreds of undocumented immigrants.
Vargas visited the Rio Grande Valley last week to learn about the border crisis—then realized he might not be able to leave.
Why did dozens of Sikh detainees in a federal facility in El Paso go on hunger strike in April?
After more than a decade of strict border enforcement, hundreds of residents on both sides of the US-Mexico border came together for the second annual Voices From Both Sides Festival to show what was lost when the border was closed.
The top law enforcement official in Hidalgo County pled guilty to money laundering charges—here's what that means for the Valley.
The human cost of a militarized border.
Heightened security measures along the border—including a dramatic increase in personnel and highly sophisticated military equipment—have made that part of our state resemble a war zone. As violent clashes with Mexican citizens increase, a crucial question emerges: Who will hold the U.S. Border Patrol accountable?
The illogical politics of immigration reform.
The messy, lonely, and visionary life of the first Texas writer—and the first Latino—to win the vaunted PEN/Faulkner Award.
Ted Cruz is going all in against immigration reform. But would his win be our loss?
Alfredo Corchado’s tragic, hopeful vision of Mexico’s emergence from an era of blood and fear.
An exclusive excerpt from a UT professor's new book on the Juárez drug wars
A Q&A on immigration reform with the president and CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
Democrats and Republicans seem ready to make a push for comprehensive immigration reform, after years of stalemate on the issue. But Brooke Rollins, head of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, thinks their approach may have the wrong focus.
Segundo Barrio, with its turn-of-the-century tenement buildings and dozens of brightly colored murals, is one of the most historic neighborhoods in the country. As the first community that immigrants encounter after crossing the Rio Grande from Juárez, it is known as the Ellis Island of the border, and over the
Four police officers in the Rio Grande Valley, including the son of Hidalgo County sheriff Lupe Treviño, are accused of taking payoffs to protect cocaine shipments along the Mexican border.
U.S. Citizens are cautioned to avoid the four Mexican states bordering Texas just a week before President Obama is set to meet with incoming Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Already running gunboats on the Rio Grande, the Texas Department of Public Safety has now purchased a manned spy plane to police the border.