Texas defies federal demand that it abandon border area
"Because the facts and law side with Texas, the State will continue utilizing its constitutional authority to defend her territory," Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote.
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"Because the facts and law side with Texas, the State will continue utilizing its constitutional authority to defend her territory," Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote.
The White House and a bipartisan Senate group could soon strike a deal to enact stricter asylum and border laws.
All 4 were closed recently due to record levels of migrant crossings but those levels have dropped dramatically in recent days.
The Biden administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to step in and allow Border Patrol agents to remove razor wire the along a 29-mile stretch of the Rio Grande River.
Never before has U.S. Border Patrol processed that many migrants in one month, according to monthly tallies going back to fiscal year 2000.
U.S. Border Patrol agents processed more than 225,000 migrants in the first 27 days of December, a tally that eclipses the previous monthly record.
SB4 would allow Texas officials to arrest, jail and prosecute migrants on state criminal charges if they are suspected of entering the U.S. illegally.
Starting in March, Texas will give police even broader power to arrest migrants while also allowing local judges to order them out of the U.S. under a new law signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
The lawsuit on behalf of El Paso County comes one day after Gov. Greg Abbott signed SB 4 into law
While lawmakers on Capitol Hill negotiate immigration reform, Texas has passed a new law that gives local law enforcement the authority to arrest people suspected of crossing the southern border illegally. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe has more.
"They're poisoning the blood of our country," Trump said at a rally this weekend.
Nearly 500,000 migrants, half of them women and children, have crossed into Panama this year through the notorious Darién jungle. Many of them have sought to reach the U.S.
President Biden's campaign aides are aiming to bring attention to what they see as the most draconian immigration policies former President Donald Trump has promised to implement if elected again in 2024.
During the fourth special session at the Texas Capitol, lawmakers in the House and Senate are poised to quickly pass identical border security bills.
The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating a two-car crash in South Texas that claimed the lives of at least eight people.
On Wednesday, the Texas House will consider three border security bills, including legislation that would spend $1.5 billion for the state to expand its border wall.
Texas lawmakers are considering cracking down further on illegal immigration.
Mexico's president says he is going to send a diplomatic note to the United States protesting Texas truck inspections that have caused major delays at border crossings.
"I'm surprised and a little disappointed that (Abbott) didn't ... attempt to learn more about the facts before he got on national television and started talking."
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With the number of border crossings soaring, the administration seemed to reverse its stand on such construction and turned to a Trump-era funding technique.
The shift in policy is designed to slow down an unprecedented flow of U.S.-bound migration from crisis-stricken Venezuela.
Attorneys for Texas are asking federal appeals court judges to let the state keep in place a floating barrier to block migrants from crossing the Rio Grande.
Border officials credit what is called "mirrored patrols" with Mexican authorities for the small drop, yet migrant advocates CBS News Texas spoke with call it a temporary and inhumane fix.
Mexico agreed to "depressurize" El Paso, Eagle Pass by deporting migrants from its border cities to their home countries.
