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Immigrant advocates want those asylum protections restored quickly, erasing Trump-era restrictions. "Women, children, families are being sent back to the very dangers that they fled," one lawyer says.
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About 20,000 would-be asylum-seekers can now wait out the asylum process in the U.S., which Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argues puts undue financial burden on Texas. KERA's Mallory Falk talks with Texas Standard.
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The policy required asylum seekers who passed through Mexico on their way to the U.S. to stay in Mexico while their claims were processed. Many were forced to live in sometimes dangerous and unsanitary migrant camps.
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Officials are trying to shrink the timetable for many asylum cases from "years to months." That could benefit people with legitimate asylum claims and discourage some unauthorized migration.
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The Biden administration for the first time Tuesday allowed journalists inside its main border detention facility for migrant children, revealing a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 people, including children and families, were crammed into a space intended for 250 and the youngest were kept in a large play pen with mats on the floor for sleeping.
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Roma, a town of 10,000 people with historic buildings and boarded-up storefronts in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, is the latest epicenter of illegal crossings, where growing numbers of families and children are entering the United States to seek asylum.
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Texas Health and Human Services confirmed 261 COVID-19 cases in state-licensed facilities and foster care for migrant children since March 5.
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Abbott detailed the state’s increased law enforcement presence in the area and critiqued President Joe Biden's immigration policies. He also doubled down against federal aid for border communities taking in and testing a rising number of migrants.
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The federal government is transferring migrant families to El Paso, Laredo and Del Rio to help ease overcrowding at South Texas facilities during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Parents and children arriving at the border would be more quickly released within 72 hours, sources say.
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A week after the U.S. government began processing those with active cases made to wait in Mexico during the Trump administration at a border crossing between Tijuana and San Diego, the process expanded this week to the Matamoros-Brownsville crossing and Friday to Ciudad Juarez-El Paso.
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Cesar and Carolina have been stuck in Ciudad Juárez since the summer of 2019. As the Biden administration begins to unwind the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” program, they finally feel a glimmer of hope.