Border & Immigration

Carne y Arena is a virtual reality experience that drops participants in the desert, on a journey with Central American and Mexican migrants. The exhibit at Fair Park is the work of Academy Award winning director Alejándro G. Iñárritu.

Legislative leaders overseeing the Texas Military Department say they are looking into reports of suicides, habitual pay problems and poor working conditions on Gov. Greg Abbott's highly touted border mission.

Organizations like DFW Refugee Outreach Services are collecting donated items like clothing, hygiene products, towels and blankets for families.

Governor Greg Abbott debuted a newly constructed section of border fence in Starr County at a press conference on Saturday. The project is part of Abbott’s plan to stop and deter unlawful entry along the South Texas border and is both tax-payer and privately funded.

Immigrant and human rights advocates are troubled by the Biden administration’s decision to expand its "Migration Protection Protocols" to include asylum seekers of any country in the Western Hemisphere other than Mexico.

The Texas Military Department will soon begin building border wall infrastructure in the Rio Grande Valley and continue construction in the Del Rio sector as part of Governor Greg Abbott's Operation Lone Star. The controversial program is set to continue indefinitely.

Migrants seeking to enter the United States will again have to stay in Mexico as they await immigration hearings, as the Biden administration reluctantly announced plans Thursday to reinstate the Trump-era policy and agreed to Mexico’s conditions for resuming it.

"The larger matter at hand here is that the Texas governor is trying to wind up fears around COVID and around this new strain of COVID to justify his anti-asylum and anti-migrant policies in South Texas,” said Ari Sawyer with Human Rights Watch.

A former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official told congressional investigators that the decision to begin expelling migrants at the border under U.S. Health Code Title 42 during Trump’s tenure “wasn’t based on a public health assessment.”

The camps, full of young children, are a product of policies that force migrants to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court or prohibit them from seeking asylum under pandemic-related public health powers.

Texas Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Beto O’Rourke made several campaign stops in the Rio Grande Valley this week where he continued to criticize both Governor Abbott and the Biden administration on their approach to the humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Biden administration has said it’s expediting the process for U visa applicants, so they can work while they wait for their applications to be processed. But a huge backlog of cases means many immigrants who've applied could be waiting months for work authorization.