immigrant communities

A new state law requires many Texas sheriff's offices to enter into 287(g) agreements and help enforce federal immigration law.

A new immigration rule to renew an occupational license is causing concern among migrants who are afraid they will lose their job or business due to not having legal status.

Darisbell Quintero Morillo was hospitalized earlier this week for reported bleeding and was told bloodwork showed she is not pregnant. She first learned of her pregnancy during a medical exam at the Prairieland Detention Facility.

A new report from the Commonwealth Fund found Texas has worse racial and ethnic health disparities than other states in the Southwest.

The conservative 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge Senate Bill 4, the 2023 law that lets state police arrest people suspected of entering the country illegally.

Staff learned late Friday. Families were called to a meeting as Fort Worth ISD weighs closing a decades-old newcomer campus.

Darisbell Paola Quintero Morillo has been detained at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado for the last three weeks. She found out she was pregnant during a medical exam while in custody and said she isn't receiving adequate care in detention.

The allegations that the late farmer workers leader sexually abused and assaulted women and children have shocked many in North Texas' Hispanic communities, and stirred conversations about generational trauma among some women.

Community leader and Southern Methodist University graduate Omar Salazar, who was taken into ICE custody last September, will not be allowed to stay in the U.S. An immigration judge granted him "voluntary departure," and Salazar will leave without facing deportation.

Leqaa Kordia was arrested last year after she participated in protests at Columbia University against Israel's war in Gaza. Speaking at a news conference in New Jersey over the weekend, she said she will continue her activism — and her legal fight to stay in the U.S.

For the first time in over 40 years, the Cinco de Mayo parade on Jefferson Boulevard in Oak Cliff was cancelled due to a shortage of funding. Instead, organizers will host a community festival.

Leqaa Kordia left the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado Monday afternoon after just over a year in immigration custody. She was the last Columbia University protester in detention.