Tag Archives: undocumented immigrants
Eddie Canales on Saving Migrant Lives in Brooks County
The activist and organizer shined a light on migrant deaths in South Texas in 2012. Now, his group is using alliances and technology to save more lives....Read More
The Texas Miracle #5: What’s Wrong with Texas Voters?
Why don't Texans vote? Will Rick Perry wear his hipster glasses in his official portrait? How'd that tiger get loose? Plus more on this week's podcast.
Why don't Texans vote? Will Rick Perry wear his hipster glasses in his official portrait? How'd that tiger get loose? Plus more on this week's podcast....Read More
Beyond ‘Beyond the Border’
Help us build an online tool to identify migrants who died in South Texas.
Today, we’re launching a crowdfunding campaign with Beacon to build an online tool that we think can help. Working with forensic anthropologists at Baylor Uni...Read More
State: Birth Certificate Lawsuit a Ruse to Validate Foreign ID’s
Attorneys for the state of Texas argued in federal court in Austin on Friday that a lawsuit joined by dozens of undocumented Texans has nothing to do with their...Read More
Daughter: Mom, Arrested at Gynecology Office, ‘Doesn’t Deserve What’s Going On’ (UPDATED)
For the last two weeks, America Ruiz has had play “Mom” to her youngest sibling after their mother was arrested in an exam room at her Houston gynecologist...Read More
Houston Mom Arrested At Gynecologist’s Appointment May Face Deportation
After her arrest in an exam room at her gynecologist’s office in early September, a Houston mother of three remains in the Harris County jail while her family...Read More
Inexplicable Deportation of Visually-Impaired Father Dashes His Hopes for Legal Status
Luis Antonio Perez-Morales almost certainly could have been among those whose lives were changed by the June 2012 immigration order that gave reprieve from depo...Read More
Dismissal of Birth Certificate Case Would Leave Many U.S. Citizen Children in Limbo
On Wednesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman to dismiss the lawsuit undocumented immigrant families have brought agai...Read More
Legislators ‘Alarmed’ by State’s Refusing Birth Certificates for Children of Undocumented Parents
Two legislators have weighed in on the controversy over Texas’ refusal to grant birth certificates to some children of undocumented families. On Wednesday, Se...Read More