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It will be at least Saturday and possibly Sunday before hundreds of unaccompanied and undocumented children arrive in North Texas. The facility at Sabine Creek Ranch in Rockwall County will be their temporary home.
Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio clashed sharply over national security and immigration in the Republican presidential debate on Tuesday, thrusting their evolving feud to the forefront of the GOP race.
The 2016 Republican presidential candidates are debating for the last time in 2015, this time in Las Vegas, as they race for advantage seven weeks before the first votes are cast in Iowa.
Officials in Ellis County are ready for the first group of immigrant children to arrive in North Texas for a temporary stay. Buses full of those teens could start to reach the DFW area as early as Friday.
Hundreds of undocumented teens are headed to North Texas this week, brought in by federal officials. This move is raising security concerns among law enforcement agencies in Ellis County and Rockwall County.
Less than 24 hours after President Obama urged Americans to reject a war between America and Islam, Donald Trump took a step in the opposite direction and called for the "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States."
What is the plan for Syrian refugees who are heading to the United States right now? Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Greg Abbott went public with their proposals on Tuesday morning.
Syrian refugees are scheduled to arrive in Texas soon, after the state eased up in its legal fight to stop them.
Nearly 5,000 unaccompanied immigrant children were caught illegally crossing the U.S. border with Mexico in October, almost double the number from October 2014, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.
An immigration attorney from Dallas must serve two years in federal prison for forging a police officer's name on a court document. Sherin Thawer was sentenced Thursday in Dallas.
More Mexicans are leaving the United States than migrating into the country, marking a reversal of one of the most significant immigration trends in U.S. history.
Republican presidential rivals Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Ted Cruz are backpedaling furiously as they try to outmaneuver each other on immigration. Both senators are trying to appeal to conservative GOP presidential primary voters.
Lawyers for an immigrant rights group will ask a judge to block emergency rules issued by Texas health officials that would allow two immigrant family detention facilities to be licensed as residential child care centers.
The Obama administration will ask the Supreme Court to save the president's plan to shield as many as 5 million immigrants living in the country illegally from deportation, after lower courts blocked it.
In a 2-1 decision, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld a Texas-based judge's injunction blocking the Obama administration's immigration initiative.
Gov. Greg Abbott sent a letter to Texas sheriffs, warning them to comply with ICE detention requests.
Hundreds of immigrant families caught illegally crossing the Mexican border told U.S. immigration agents they made the dangerous journey in part because they believed they would be permitted to stay in the United States.
The Dallas County sheriff who was warned by Governor Greg Abbott about not complying with immigration holds has been sued by people who say they were detained for extended periods because of such holds.
Republican Governor Greg Abbott is calling for a "sanctuary cities" law in Texas in his most public support of the divisive immigration issue since taking office.
The members aim to encourage the court to issue a decision on the Texas-led lawsuit.
A federal judge has chosen for now not to force Texas health officials to change their stance in denying birth certificates to immigrant families with U.S- born children.
Trump's continued harsh statements on immigration come despite calls from GOP officials to tone down his rhetoric on the sensitive issue.
Appeals Court rules Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio failed to allege an injury that can both be traced back to President Obama's plan and can be rectified by an order to stop it.
The U.S. government has asked a federal judge to reconsider her ruling calling for the immediate release of children and their mothers caught entering the U.S. illegally from Mexico.
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday repeatedly slammed Jeb Bush and the rest of the Republican presidential field over immigration and women's health during a campaign stop in Denver.
