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A Venezuelan immigrant tries to make a home in San Antonio in exclusionary times.
Border and Immigration
What Is (and Isn’t) Happening with the Border Wall in Big Bend
Government flip-flopping and semantic ambiguity have led to premature declarations of victory over Trump's attack on my home region.
Worker’s Death at SpaceX Factory Followed Hundreds of Injuries in Recent Years
A 25-year-old died last month of “blunt force trauma due to a fall.” An Observer analysis found that the injury rate at "Starbase" was well above an industry national average.
Deaths Uncovered in Laredo Show the Ongoing Toll of Border Militarization
“The people we’re finding now dying on the U.S. side of the border are the people who could not wait.”
In Laredo’s Last Stand Against Trump’s Border Wall, Are City Leaders Making a Deal with the Devil?
"A lot of the same arguments for why you wouldn't build it in Big Bend are the exact same arguments for why you wouldn't build it in Laredo," say opponents of the wall, as local officials have sought to accommodate the feds' demands.
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.
A Texas Immigration Lawyer Breaks Down Family Detention, Habeas Corpus, and Senate Bill 4
The revival of the Dilley detention center and a scorched-earth approach to immigration arrests has led advocates to embrace a novel strategy rooted in old law.
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Texas Is Cracking Down on Essential Immigrant Drivers
Professionals like me get Texas kids safely to school. We get food to grocery stores and medical supplies to hospitals. Until the government decides to throw us out of work.
Ruptured Families: The U.S. Citizen Children Left Behind by Deportations
More than 800,000 Texan kids with citizenship depend on an undocumented parent. Trump’s immigration crackdown is tearing their households apart.
‘What Kind of Life Is This?’: Five Desperate Cubans Weigh Their Odds in Texas
Refugees from Cuba have always had to struggle for success in America. In Trump’s second term, they’ve been plunged into legal chaos.