Access to representation can make an immigrant twelve times less likely to be deported, according to a similar program in a New York City courtroom.
We talked to the professor who has spent his life researching undocumented youth.
The law’s long legal journey is likely still beginning, but the sanctuary city law's opponents can mark this one down as a win.
ICE and CBP’s decision to continue activities during the hurricane have advocates worried for undocumented immigrants.
The festival—which has had its own issues around immigration this year—declined.
The conference was called out on Twitter by an artist who posted excerpts from their contract.
Governor says there are no plans to use National Guard to detain immigrants.
The state’s lawsuit is about limiting presidential power, not thwarting immigration policy.
Texas politics is starting to look a lot like national politics. And that’s not good for the state.
The Fifth Circuit puts the president's immigration plan on hold.
According to Blanca Borrego's family, she was taken into an exam room where sheriff's deputies were waiting for her.
Ken Paxton asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by 17 families. Here’s why that probably won’t happen.
Donald Trump’s immigration tirades are opening up doors for Rick Perry.
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.
A newly released survey finds Texans sharply divided on issues such as same-sex marriage and abortion, but overwhelmingly in favor of a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who live here illegally.
Governor Greg Abbott dodges a couple of tough questions on Face the Nation.
Some questions about Barack Obama's explanation for his executive action on immigration, announced last week.
On Thursday, the president said that Congress had left him no choice but to act alone. Conservatives can argue otherwise.
The border surge, extended. Immigration action, executed. Hispanic voters, considered. And more!
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.
Edras, a sixteen-year-old unaccompanied minor I met in Brownsville, on the 1,400-mile journey from Guatemala.
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.
Step one: question your own assumptions
One of the few politicians who has directly taken action in securing the border.
The City of McAllen’s Emergency Management Coordinator works with local charity organizations to try and minimize the local impact of the increased surge of undocumented immigrants.
Why did dozens of Sikh detainees in a federal facility in El Paso go on hunger strike in April?
One of the immigration crisis’s indispensable leaders is Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of the Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley.
An influx of illegal immigrants from Central America to the Rio Grande Valley is a humanitarian crisis with serious implications for border security.
How not to solve the problem on the border.
Last night's debate suggested that Texans still recoil at divisive rhetoric on illegal immigration--and that Republicans know it.
I watched the debate on immigration between Dan Patrick and Julian Castro last night. Erica is also going to write about it today, but in my mind it didn’t really settle anything though it did raise a long-lingering issue. During the course of the debate, Patrick said that
Two controversial topics were taken up on the first day of the LBJ Presidential Library's Civil Rights Summit.
Last week the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the City of Farmers Branch, located northwest of Dallas, which sought to pass an immigration enforcement ordinance that would have prohibited landlords from renting to immigrants who were deemed unlawfully present and authorized arrest and prosecution of landlords
The battle over securing the border has shifted from Arizona to Texas, according to the New York Times.
If Congress passes the DREAM Act, the total economic impact for Texas could top $66 billion by 2030.
A new short story.
Depending on who you are and how you feel about immigration and cultural change, the image on this page is either no big deal, mildly provocative, or highly controversial. The original painting on which it’s based, American Gothic, by Grant Wood, is one of the most famous in the world.
Despite rampant fears to the contrary, the bloody drug violence in Mexico hasn’t spilled over into Texas—but that doesn’t mean it’s not transforming life all along the border.
On their new book, Desert Duty: On the Line With the U.S. Border Patrol.
Read an excerpt from the new book by Bill Broyles and Mark Haynes.
Nate Blakeslee talks about immigration and the media coverage of border spillover violence.
At the port of entry in El Paso, I always tell the agents, “American,” but what I really want to say is “fronterizo”—I’m from both sides.
Two Border Patrol agents are sent to prison while the dope smuggler they pursued and wounded is granted immunity by federal prosecutors and goes free. A miscarriage of justice? Not so fast.
What the seventy-plus illegal immigrants smuggled into Texas in the container of an eighteen-wheeler saw, felt, and, in the luckiest cases, survived.
For some residents of Mount Pleasant, the April 16 immigration raid on the local chicken plant was no more than a segment on the evening news. For others, including many legal residents of the tiny East Texas town, it was the moment everything changed.
Earlier this week, the drug war claimed the city's 10,000th victim.
Several temporary shelters have cropped up around Texas to house a recent unexplained influx of unaccompanied minors crossing into the United States.
A report by the Pew Hispanic Center finds that the huge wave of immigration from Mexico not only seems to have come to an end but is also reversing itself. This is a remarkable development, one that would have seemed unthinkable even five years ago. Illegal immigrants are
