Selena Gomez pens emotional essay about immigration crisis: ‘I feel afraid for my country’
The 27-year-old actress and singer discussed her own family’s history and voiced some of her concerns in an op-ed published by Time magazine on Tuesday
Judge blocks Trump administration's plan to fast-track deportations
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's move to vastly extend authority of immigration officers to deport people without allowing them to appear before judges, the third legal setback for its immigration agenda in one day.
40 arrested in North Texas during ICE immigration enforcement operation
Federal authorities arrested 40 people in North Texas during a five-day immigration enforcement operation that ended on Wednesday.
Honduran deported after sex offense conviction in Dallas Co. caught by Border Patrol
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a Honduras man in Arizona who had previously been deported after being convicted in Dallas County.
President Trump calls new border wall a ‘world-class security system’
SAN DIEGO (AP) — President Donald Trump signed his name on a newly constructed section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, calling it a “world-class security system” that will be virtually impenetrable.
Dallas ICE field director says agents shouldn't be demonized
With emotions running high about immigration enforcement, ICE is working to combat an image problem.
Fort Worth ISD asked to reinstate teacher removed for anti-immigration posts
The Fort Worth ISD school board will make its decision within ten days about Georgia Clark's future with the district.
Pentagon OKs military construction cash to build border wall
Defense Secretary Mark Esper has approved the use of $3.6 billion in funding from military construction projects to build 175 miles of President Donald Trump's wall along the Mexican border.
Teacher accused of threatening student with deportation no longer employed at Lancaster ISD
A Lancaster ISD school employee accused of threatening a student with deportation is no longer employed with the district.
Retired US Army veteran and wife fight to keep adopted daughter from deportation
A retired U.S. Army veteran and his wife are fighting to stop the deportation of their adopted daughter after he missed the deadline to make her a naturalized U.S. citizen while he was deployed in Afghanistan.
Lancaster ISD student claims teacher threatened him with deportation
A ninth-grader in Lancaster ISD claims a school employee threatened to deport him.
Governor Abbott says 'mistakes' made in immigrant rhetoric
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday "mistakes were made" when he sent a fundraising mailer that called on supporters to "defend Texas" from illegal immigration, which was dated a day before a gunman targeting Mexicans killed 22 people in El Paso.
Policy on automatic citizenship for children born abroad to US military members changed
The children of some overseas U.S. military members and government employees will no longer receive automatic citizenship, the Trump administration said Wednesday in a policy alert.
US moves FEMA, Coast Guard money to fund border programs
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Department of Homeland Security is moving $271 million from other agencies such as FEMA and the U.S. Coast Guard to increase the number of beds for detained immigrants and support its policy forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases play out. The news comes as hurricane season is ramping up and Tropical Storm Dorian was heading toward Puerto Rico.
2020 Census to be printed without citizenship question
Days after the U.S. Supreme Court halted the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday started the process of printing the questionnaire without the controversial query.
Images show migrants pleading for help in ‘dangerous' overcrowded Texas DHS detention facilities
A “management alert” with images of detained migrants pleading for help in South Texas was released Tuesday from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General.
Congressman Al Green reunites Jose Escobar with his family in Houston
Al Green returned to Houston with his repatriated constituent Jose Escobar and his family on Thursday, he says.
21 Savage donates $25,000 for legal aid to help detained immigrants
ATLANTA (AP) - Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage has given $25,000 to the Southern Poverty Law Center after the watchdog organization helped him while he was in federal immigration custody earlier this year.
New border wall construction begins in California
The installation of 11 new miles of border wall began on Thursday in Calexico, California.
Trump plans to roll back deportation protections for families of US troops, immigration lawyers say
President Donald Trump is now looking to roll back a program that protects undocumented family members of active-duty troops from being deported, according to immigration attorneys.