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The Texas border counties are seeing a voting shift towards the Republican Party. What’s behind this political trend? Also, exploring the investigation into a Bexar County deputy who Tased a migrant teen at a refugee shelter.
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The new children's book Hear My Voice/Escucha Mi Voz pulls from the author's interviews with migrant children detained in U.S. facilities in 2019.
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The Texas-Mexico border remains closed to many migrants and foreign travelers, but it will be bustling on Friday as various officials and political groups visit the area.
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It was the administration's latest attempt to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from halting border wall construction.
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Along the Mexico border, like everywhere, businesses have seen a drop in foot traffic during the pandemic. Unlike other parts of the country, the loss of customers is partly due to an action by the Federal Government: The closure of the border to nonessential travel. On this episode of The Shakeout, we weigh the economic effects this policy has had for cities on both sides of the border.
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Anti-wall activists gathered in Pharr and held a mock funeral procession on Sunday to protest wall construction in a region where the virus has had deep impacts.
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Laredo has been a target of President Donald Trump’s push for border wall construction in South Texas for more than a year. Earlier this summer, U.S.…
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The coronavirus outbreak led President Trump to close U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico last week. At the southern border, the closure is affecting life on both the U.S. and Mexico sides.
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Thousands of military troops remain deployed at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of the Trump administration’s effort to prevent illegal crossings. Some of…
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A new report by Physicians for Human Rights documents evidence of lasting psychological harm for migrant children and parents subjected to the Trump…