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Some agencies that conduct immigration-related business, such as ICE, would continue to operate during a government shutdown. Others would not.
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El Paso is struggling to shelter thousands of migrants arriving in the Texas border city every day.
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Mexican immigration officials said they will negotiate with five countries’ governments to ensure they will take back their citizens. The agreement was announced after shelters in El Paso said they are over capacity. -
Immigration authorities arrested more families in August than in any month on record. U.S. officials have long grappled with discouraging families from coming — and found there are no easy solutions.
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The facility is averaging 750 migrants a day, many who traveled from Eagle Pass.
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Rolando Salinas Jr. said authorities are expecting between several thousand more migrants to cross through the city in the coming days.
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Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. as of July 31 can sign up for Temporary Protected Status. Homeland Security officials estimate that roughly 472,000 more people will now be eligible for work permits.
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Census Bureau data show the number of foreign-born people rose by nearly a million in 2022 after years of little growth. Experts say the increase coincides with a gradual reboot of legal immigration.
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Andrew Hanen, a federal judge in Houston, has agreed with Texas and eight other states suing to stop the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program.
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When the U.S. role in the 1973 coup in Chile became known, activists took action. So did U.S. lawmakers. This is what happened after the U.S. helped topple a Marxist and aided a right-wing dictator.
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It was a short-lived victory for the federal government over the Texas’ anti-migrant border buoys. The day after a federal judge ordered the buoys removal, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency stay.
