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Texas will no longer accept new refugees, first under Trump administration
Texas will no longer accept the resettlement of new refugees, becoming the first state known to do so under a recent Trump administration order, Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday.

ICE releases 18-year-old U.S. citizen wrongfully detained near border for more than three weeks
Francisco Erwin Galicia, a U.S.-born 18-year-old, was released from immigration custody Tuesday after wrongfully being detained for more than three weeks.

New holding center for migrant children opens in Texas
A former oilfield worker camp off a dirt road in rural Texas has become the U.S. government's newest holding center for detaining migrant children after they leave Border Patrol stations,...

Government photos show detained migrants pleading for help
In one photo, one of 88 men in a cell meant for 41 presses a piece of cardboard against the window, with the word "help." In another, a man lowers...

Head of Customs and Border Protection resigns amid uproar over migrant children
The acting head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection resigned Tuesday amid an uproar over the discovery of migrant children being held in filthy conditions at one of the agency's...

Border Patrol expands collection of migrant children’s biometric data
U.S. border authorities say they've started to increase the biometric data they take from children 13 years old and younger, including fingerprints, despite privacy concerns and government policy intended to...

President Trump seeks to cut foreign aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras
"It would be so easy to fix our weak and very stupid Democrat inspired immigration laws," Trump tweeted Saturday.

Trump threatens to shut Mexico border – “not kidding around”
Threatening drastic action against Mexico, President Donald Trump declared on Friday he is likely to shut down America's southern border next week unless Mexican authorities immediately halt all illegal immigration....

“Itap not about money”: Texas landowners dig in to fight Trump’s border wall
As President Donald Trump travels to the border in Texas to make the case for his $5.7 billion wall, landowner Eloisa Cavazos says she knows firsthand how the project will...

Trump comments for first time on migrant children’s deaths
President Donald Trump sought to deflect blame for the deaths of two Guatemalan children in U.S. custody by claiming they were "very sick" when they arrived, even though immigration authorities...