Abbott Vows To Cut Funds To 'Sanctuary' Campuses
In a tweet on Thursday, Gov. Greg Abbott promised to cut funds to public universities that become what he described as "sanctuary" campuses for immigrant students. He provided no other details.
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In a tweet on Thursday, Gov. Greg Abbott promised to cut funds to public universities that become what he described as "sanctuary" campuses for immigrant students. He provided no other details.
Federal immigration officials will set up a second temporary holding facility along the Texas border to deal with a surge in arrivals of families and unaccompanied children fleeing violence and poverty in Central America.
Immigrants in the United States illegally are not automatically eligible for asylum on the basis that they are former gang members who risk persecution if they return home.
Immigration hotlines, legal clinics and public schools around the country have been fielding a flood of questions about immigration since Donald Trump's election.
The immigration attorney for a man who was adopted from South Korea almost four decades ago by Americans says he has been deported.
Pope Francis praised Latino contributions to the country in a message to U.S. Roman Catholic bishops, a week after Donald Trump was elected president and on the day the prelates put a Mexican-born archbishop in line to be their leader.
Democratic mayors of several major U.S. cities say they'll do all they can to protect residents from deportation, despite President-elect Donald Trump's vows to withhold potentially millions of dollars in taxpayer money
American Muslims are reeling following the election of Trump, whose campaign was rife with anti-Muslim rhetoric and proposals that included banning Muslims from entering the country and heightened surveillance of mosques across the nation.
Texas didn't change with Donald Trump on the ballot. But the differences could be dramatic with him in the White House.
Canada and the prospect of Americans moving there appears to have drawn so much online interest that it knocked out the country's immigration website.
An increasing number of people from far-flung corners of the world quietly have tried sneaking into the United States among the hundreds of thousands of mostly Latin American migrants caught at the Mexican border in the last year.
Asian immigrant women are increasingly accounting for a larger share of foreign mothers who give birth to children in the United States, signaling a changing landscape of immigrants in America.
Homeland Security says 527,127 people who were supposed to leave the country in 2015 overstayed, more than the population of Atlanta. And that was only those who entered by plane or ship, not on land.
Edis Moya Alas is now behind bars, accused of kidnapping a 6-year-old girl over the weekend. But police are still looking into why he targeted this particular child as they attempt to learn more about the suspect.
Citing a Border Patrol union leader, Donald Trump said Friday that agents have been told to allow immigrants into the U.S. illegally "so they can vote in the election." But he offered no evidence to support his claim.
Some Mexican-Americans are taking issue with Republican Mike Pence brushing off GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's comments on Mexican immigrants as "that Mexican thing."
Officials with the State of Texas sent a letter to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, saying that the Lone Star State intends to withdraw from the federal program if the state's proposed plan is not approved by the end of the month.
Fort Worth police have arrested an illegal immigrant they say was exposing himself near the campus of TCU.
California and Michigan are neck-and-neck among states receiving the most Syrian refugees, followed by Arizona, Texas and Illinois. Dallas has gotten 293 refugees since October of last year.
Standing alongside the president of Mexico, a measured Donald Trump on Wednesday firmly defended the right of the United States to build a massive border wall along its southern flank but declined to repeat his frequent promise to force Mexico to pay for it.
Donald Trump has arrived in Mexico, a surprise visit Wednesday to meet with the president of a nation he derided at the start of his White House campaign as a source of rapists and criminals coming to the U.S.
A legal ruling that would send 28 detained immigrant mothers and their children back to Latin America despite their claims they face persecution upon return was upheld on Monday by a federal appeals court.
Prosecutors said that a Texan who claimed to be the "voice of God" faces up to 60 years in prison for forcing two immigrants to work for years without pay. Olga Sandra Murra of Fort Worth smuggled both women into the U.S. in the late 1990s.
The Justice Department's Executive Office for Immigration Review said Wednesday there are now 500,051 pending immigration cases in the agency's courts.
An immigration lawyer who filed asylum documents on behalf of clients while knowing they were ineligible can no longer practice in Texas.
