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The former president's book features his portraits of 43 immigrants — athletes, public servants, business leaders, educators — in an effort to join those saying, "The system's broken. Let's fix it."
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Here’s a rundown of immigration and other news from the Texas border and beyond.
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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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Gov. Greg Abbott and Republicans blame President Joe Biden for the arrival of migrant minors at the border and have raised alarm over the conditions they face in federal custody. Two teens who recently made their way through the border and an emergency shelter in San Antonio paint a different picture.
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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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Here’s a rundown of immigration and other news from the Texas border and beyond.
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On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas visited El Paso to hear what local advocates have to say about immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. A central concern is the ongoing practice of expelling migrants and asylum seekers.
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After kids are processed at the border, most are reconnected with family members and restart their lives in a new country, in a new language and with a new school. Each year, hundreds of them end up in Houston.
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The Biden task force is examining whether the previous administration began implementing its policy in the early days of former President Donald Trump's term.
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While the Trump administration tried to cancel a government program that allows people from countries ravaged by disaster and war to live and work legally in the United States, President Joe Biden is backing legislation that would give those immigrants a shot at becoming American citizens.
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With 18,000 migrant children and teens in federal custody and reports of overcrowded border facilities, politicians on both sides have been quick to point fingers. Three attorneys spoke with Houston Public Media about what’s actually happening.