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As reporters investigated Gov. Greg Abbott’s border initiative, they repeatedly found situations in which Abbott and Department of Public Safety officials cited accomplishments that lacked crucial context or did not match reality. Here are a few examples.
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The state’s trade relationship with its southern neighbor remains strong despite the global pandemic. There is also hope new money for ports included in the bipartisan federal infrastructure bill will add to that growth.
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In a report out Tuesday, Abbott praised Operation Lone Star. Since its inception early last year, OLS has led to the seizure of hard drugs and apprehensions of alleged criminals in Texas. But the mission has also been plagued by suicides and reports of mismanagement.
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"They're the biggest law enforcement agencies in the country, and there's no reason why they don't have the resources or the ability to be able to process 15,000 people in a more efficient, orderly way without this chaotic response."
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Thousands of Haitian migrants have assembled under and around a bridge in a small Texas border town as chaos unfolded Friday and presented the Biden administration with a new challenge as it tries to manage large numbers of asylum-seekers who have been reaching U.S. soil.
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Here’s a rundown of border and immigration news from Texas and beyond. Look out for a weekly recap featuring reporting from NPR and Texas’ public radio stations.
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There were at least 46 hunger strikes — by individuals and groups — at Texas ICE facilities between 2013 and 2017, according to ACLU data shared with Houston Public Media.
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Migrant teen Oscar made the difficult trek to the U.S. from Honduras to escape the gangs and pursue his dreams of being a pediatrician. An unaccompanied minor, his arrival in the U.S. was complicated by an order from Gov. Abbott to yank state licenses for permanent shelter for these children.
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Families arriving at the U.S. border with Mexico will have their cases fast-tracked in immigration court, the Biden administration said Friday, less than two weeks after it said it was easing pandemic-related restrictions on seeking asylum.
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Here’s a rundown of immigration and other news from the Texas border and beyond.
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About four in 10 border encounters last month were with families and unaccompanied children — many from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — at a time when policies in the U.S. and Mexico favor them staying in the United States while they seek asylum.
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Larger numbers of immigrant families have been crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in the first weeks of President Joe Biden’s administration. Warning signs are emerging of the border crises that marked former President Donald Trump’s term: Hundreds of newly released immigrants are getting dropped off with nonprofit groups, sometimes unexpectedly, and accounts of prolonged detention in short-term facilities are growing.