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The end of CBP One stripped many migrants and asylum seekers of hope. After months of fruitlessly clicking on the app to secure one of the 1,450 slots, their dreams of entering the U.S. legally were shattered. Many migrants have refused to cross illegally, fearing deportation.
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The lawsuit alleges Trump's actions go against protections provided by Congress and backed by the courts.
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San Antonio's Migrant Resource Center to shut down as a result of fewer migrants, city officials sayThe Migrant Resource Center / Centro de Bienvenida was opened in 2022 on San Pedro Avenue to temporarily shelter migrants traveling through San Antonio after receiving court dates. It will no longer take new arrivals starting on Monday.
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The decision to halt the program could prevent thousands of people detained in immigration detention centers from receiving legal advice.
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It was a change from the Republican governor's legal battles with the Biden administration. Abbott spent the last four years testing a state's ability to enforce immigration law — at times at odds with Border Patrol.
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The 400 members of a special tactical unit left bases in Houston and Fort Worth on Monday morning, according to the governor’s office.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee launched its investigation following the 2023 death of an 8-year-old girl at a facility in Harlingen.
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The confluence of settlement, immigration and detention illustrates the complex issues that are in the headlines and in our identity. In the books We were Illegal: Uncovering a Texas Family’s Mythmaking and Migration and After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America, Jessica Goudeau takes two hard looks at the making of America and the stories we tell ourselves about our place in the nation. In the book, The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration, Brianna Nofil examines the cruelty of the U.S. immigration bureaucracy and the criminal justice system it gave rise to.
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Under the Biden administration, migrants from embattled countries could apply for entry for humanitarian reasons, without having to attempt to cross into the U.S. illegally.
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Almost as soon as Donald Trump became President Trump, the phone application that allows migrants appointments to seek asylum in the United States went down.