Nomaan Merchant

Texas will no longer accept new refugees, first under Trump administration

January 10, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.

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

July 23, 2019 at 4:51 p.m.

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.

A staff member cleans in a dinning hall at the U.S. government's newest holding center for migrant children in Carrizo Springs, Texas on July 9, 2019. The government said the holding center will give it much-needed capacity to take in more children from the Border Patrol.

New holding center for migrant children opens in Texas

July 10, 2019 at 2:19 p.m.

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,...

A portion of a report from government auditors reveals images of people penned into overcrowded Border Patrol facilities, photographed Tuesday, July 2, 2019, in Washington. The report released Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General warns that facilities in South Texas' Rio Grande Valley face "serious overcrowding" and require "immediate attention."

Government photos show detained migrants pleading for help

July 2, 2019 at 5:16 p.m.

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...

This June 20, 2019, file frame from video shows the entrance of a Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas. U.S. government officials say they've moved more than 100 kids back to the remote border facility where lawyers reported detained children were caring for each other and had inadequate food, water, and sanitation. An official from U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday, June 25, 2019 that the
"majority" of the roughly 300 children detained at Clint, Texas, last week have been placed in facilities operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

Head of Customs and Border Protection resigns amid uproar over migrant children

June 25, 2019 at 12:54 p.m.

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

April 26, 2019 at 11:34 p.m.

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...

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President Trump seeks to cut foreign aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras

March 30, 2019 at 5:55 p.m.

"It would be so easy to fix our weak and very stupid Democrat inspired immigration laws," Trump tweeted Saturday.

President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., Thursday, March 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Trump threatens to shut Mexico border 鈥� “not kidding around”

March 29, 2019 at 4:42 p.m.

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....

鈥淚t抖阴ap not about money鈥�: Texas landowners dig in to fight Trump’s border wall

January 9, 2019 at 9:14 p.m.

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

December 29, 2018 at 6:27 p.m.

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...

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