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The Senate rejected the two articles that accuse Alejandro Mayorkas of refusing to enforce immigration laws. The House voted to impeach him in February.
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The declarations are the next step in an effort to conserve water locally, ask the state for resources and assistance, and work with the U.S. government to influence Mexico to deliver water owed to the region under an international treaty. -
Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn was one of two sheriffs at a 'border crisis' hearing, but neither were from border counties. -
The Senate is still negotiating what the scope of the homeland security secretary's trial will be and whether to allow debate in the Democratic-controlled chamber. -
The coverage of migration at the border frequently skips over a very important point. The people who show up at the border want to work. And the United States needs workers. The federal reserve is crediting migration for boosting the economy and avoiding a recession.But what can the Biden administration do to take full advantage of the migration opportunity at the nation’s doorstep? -
Arrests for crossing the U.S. border illegally fell slightly in March, authorities said, bucking a usual spring increase amid increased immigration enforcement in Mexico. -
The U.S. Department of State-run program known as Welcome Corps allows U.S. citizens or permanent residents to sponsor a refugee or refugee family. Texas is one of the states leading the way in the number of application submissions. -
Just 70 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border is a land littered with the dead who feel short in their attempt to find a better life in the United States. Brooks County, Texas is a barren scrub brush desert that U.S. immigration policy takes advantage of to raise the death toll for migrants. And the numbers of fatalities keep rising. -
Excitement continues to build for the total solar eclipse on Monday. The path of totality will travel from Mexico, cross the border and enter the United States. In her commentary, TPR contributor Yvette Benavides compares that path to the trek of migrants in the shadow of the eclipse. -
More than 200 migrants are facing charges for being part of the crowd that knocked down a chain link fence at the border. The migrants then rushed past Texas National Guard soldiers to reach Border Patrol and turn themselves in to agents. -
Texas' immigration law has raised fear that it'll promote racial profiling by police. The concerns evoke memories of what happened after Arizona passed its so-called "show me your papers" law in 2010.
