2024 Presidential Election Impact on Texas: Immigration

This is a multipart series on the different ways the 2024 Presidential Election is likely to affect Texas. In Texas, immigration is the most important...

Judge Slams Down On Paxton’s 4th Attack On Border Nonprofits

A judge has denied a request by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to depose the head of a migrant advocacy group in Brownsville. This...

Abbott Plans To Install More Buoys At The Border Despite Knowing They Don’t Work

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott plans to expand the buoy barriers installed by the state across the Rio Grande river on the border with Mexico,...

John Cornyn Says VP Harris Is “Trump Reincarnate” For Supporting Border Wall

Just after Vice President Kamala Harris said she would revive a bipartisan bill that would support the construction of the border wall, Sen. John...

Did Abbott’s Operation Lone Star Reduce Illegal Immigration? Data Suggests Otherwise

Gov. Greg Abbott has claimed that his $11 billion Operation Lone Star has decreased illegal immigration, however, democratic border states with no additional measures...

Abbott’s Migrant Busing Initiative Slows as Border Crossings Plummet

Gov. Greg Abbott said he would double down his efforts to send buses with migrants to Democratic cities, however, he has had a hard...

Biden’s Border Policy Leads to Large Drop in Migrants

Shelters on the U.S. southern border are seeing a drop of up to 60 percent in migrant populations. The reason is likely President Joe...

Texas Landowner Sues Federal Government For Trying To Take His Land To Build Border...

A landowner in rural Starr County, Texas, is suing the federal government for attempting to take his property for new border wall construction, just...

Illegal Border Crossings Drop by 80%, Thanks To U.S. Federal Government and Mexico

The number of illegal border crossings to the U.S. has dramatically decreased thanks to joint efforts by the U.S. and Mexico. According to a new...
A Mexican migrant waits to be transported after being arrested for trespassing on private property near the border by Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers as part of Operation Lone Star on Nov. 9, 2021. Credit: Verónica Gabriela Cárdenas for ProPublica/The Texas Tribune

El Paso County Officials Say It’s Time the State Pays for Operation Lone Star...

County officials issued a disaster declaration Tuesday, saying the state’s mass arrests at the border have cost the county millions of dollars and overwhelmed...
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