The leaders of almost 40 childcare-related advocacy groups are urging lawmakers to take better care of child migrants and their parents “no matter their country of origin.” In a recently penned letter, groups like the Texas Medical Association, Texas Pediatric Society...
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back to archiveDespite threats, immigration raids spare Houston, for now
Trump’s promised nationwide immigration raids never materialized on Sunday, despite Houston’s undoucmented population bracing for the worst. Immigrant rights groups, local reporters, and Houston’s Police Chief reported no signs of Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
Updated: In Texas, Pence forced to eat his words on conditions in migrant detention centers
Updated: Pence visited a second detention center in McAllen on Friday, offering a more realistic assessment. CNN reported, “Pence toured a swelteringly hot room called a sally port with hundreds of men, a strong smell of sweat and overcrowding so extreme there was no...
Trump, defeated, says he’s pushing for data on undocumented population with executive order
On Thursday, President Donald Trump admitted defeat in his quest to include a citizenship question in the Census. So case closed on that unusual fight. The U.S. Supreme Court effectively shut him down from mandating a citizenship question, which many deemed to be an...
Trump immigration raids, including in Houston, are scheduled for Sunday
President Donald Trump is reportedly going ahead with multiple nationwide immigration raids that he called off last month. In talks with a former homeland security official, the New York Times reported on Thursday that the raids will begin on Sunday. The Times said...
Let the PR war begin: VP Pence visits Texas today; Cornyn tags along
Amid the humanitarian crisis along the border, it’s wheels down for Vice President Mike Pence in the Rio Grande Valley on Friday. He’s expected to meet with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in McAllen. Some members of CPB have been blamed for allowing unsanitary...
Congress to investigate squalid conditions at migrant detention centers in Texas as we await Trump’s promised immigration raids
Trump says he says he will move forward with immigration raids “fairly soon,” according to the Washington Post. He threatened to begin rounding up millions of undocumented immigrants in the country, including in Texas last month. It’s unclear when and where these...
Trump is now threatening executive order on Census since he lost in the Supreme Court
President Trump is considering an executive order to get what he wants: the citizenship question on the 2020 census, Axios is reporting this morning. Last month the Supreme Court blocked the president’s relentless effort to add such a question because his...
Joaquin Castro secretly films deplorable conditions at Texas migrant camp
Photo: Joaquin Castro/ Twitter It shouldn’t take sitting members of Congress to reveal the truth about what is happening to incarcerated migrants along the Texas-Mexico border— but that’s where we are. As part of a trip organized by the Congressional Hispanic...