Dallas Immigrant Families React to Supreme Court Deadlock
Daniel Badillo, 11, of Dallas is afraid his mother will be deported.
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Daniel Badillo, 11, of Dallas is afraid his mother will be deported.
A tie vote by the Supreme Court is blocking President Barack Obama's immigration plan that sought to shield millions living in the U.S. illegally from deportation.
Critics have raised human rights and decency concerns over a proposal to turn an ex-nursing home in Texas into a family detention center for people entering the U.S. illegally.
The Justice Department told Judge Hanen on Tuesday that there's insufficient evidence to show that the government withheld information or intentionally deceived the judge or the states.
A federal judge in Texas who initially blocked President Barack Obama's immigration executive action has ordered that Justice Department attorneys attend an ethics course for misleading him about whether the administration had begun implementing one of the proposed measures.
Twenty-six states filed a lawsuit over the measures in 2014.
Immigrant advocates are complaining about U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers' actions toward residents along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas and New Mexico.
In at least 35 districts in 14 states, hundreds of unaccompanied minors from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have been discouraged from enrolling in schools.
As a Donald Trump supporter, Nedal Tamer feels he's in the minority among Muslim-Americans, comfortable with his choice yet somewhat confounded that he doesn't have more company.
The Supreme Court is taking up an important dispute over immigration that could affect millions of people who are living in illegally in Texas and across the country.
The raging political fight over immigration comes to the Supreme Court on Monday in a dispute that could affect millions of people who are in the United States illegally.
Immigrant children living in the U.S. without legal status have been blocked from registering for school and accessing the educational services they need, according to a report on school districts in four states, including Texas.
Can presidential candidate Donald Trump really make good on his promise to build a wall along the Mexican border to prevent illegal migration? What's more, can he make Mexico pay for it?
The task to keep the border in El Paso with Ciudad Juarez safe during Pope Francis's visit has become a massive undertaking described by law enforcement along the border as "unprecedented."
A cross border prayer service took place today near El Paso in anticipation Pope Francis' visit this week to Mexico.
Underscoring the political dimension, the case will be argued in April and decided by late June, about a month before both political parties gather for their nominating conventions.
Texas is leading 26 mainly Republican-dominated states in challenging the Democratic administration's immigration plan.
Marco Rubio is increasingly portraying immigration as a national security issue rather than a question of what to do with millions of people in the country illegally, a sign of his evolving stance on the topic.
Some of the first Central American families targeted by immigration authorities in recent raids have had their deportations temporarily halted.
A federal official says immigration agents conducted raids in several states over the weekend and detained 121 adults and children who have been slated for deportation.
Close to the southern tip of Texas, a border wall suddenly ends. Its final post sits in a dry cornfield, half a mile from the nearest bend in the Rio Grande river, the actual border with Mexico.
Texas on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court not to review a lower court's decision blocking President Barack Obama's plan to spare millions of immigrants from deportation.
Border Patrol agents recently caught several Central American immigrant children after they crossed the Rio Grande.
A hundred undocumented children from Central America arrived at a private camp in Rockwall County Saturday.
More than any other issue, immigration is driving the rivalry between Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, presidential rivals focusing on the divisive topic in their messages to Republican voters.
