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As World Cup Unfolds, Immigrant Rights Organizers Seek a Reckoning over Dallas’ Relationship with ICE

Activists are tracking and trying to pressure the city over the use of its municipal airport for deportation flights, as visitors from around the world flood in.

by Emily Markwiese

Keep Reading

A Texas Immigration Lawyer Breaks Down Family Detention, Habeas Corpus, and Senate Bill 4

by Gaige Davila

Ruptured Families: The U.S. Citizen Children Left Behind by Deportations

by Jesús Jank Curbelo

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport

by Gaige Davila

The entrance to the 500-bed Karnes County Residential Center for detained immigrant moms and kids. May 10, 2016

‘She Lives in Fear,’ Not in El Salvador, but in Texas Detention

Texas wants to license immigrant detention centers for child care, but two families say the privately run facilities aren't as safe as the state claims.

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

Families in the hall at the notorious T. Don Hutto family detention center Mar 18, 2016

An End to Family Detention? Immigration Groups are Wary

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

Families in the hall at the notorious T. Don Hutto family detention center Sep 05, 2014

Feds Planning Massive Family Detention Center in South Texas

by Forrest Wilder

Jul 07, 2014

The Unnecessary Expense of Immigrant Detention

by Cindy Casares

Janet Murguía Apr 16, 2014

Mass Deportation’s Hidden Costs

by Cindy Casares

In the shadow of the sun Mar 27, 2013

The Shadow of the Son

The trials of the border's most powerful law-enforcement family

by Melissa del Bosque

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