A citizens militia known as the United Constitutional Patriots has begun detaining families of asylum seekers at gunpoint before handing them over to Border Patrol agents.
With existing facilities “beyond capacity,” the administration will spend nearly $40 million on tents to house detained migrant families and children.
Mr. Castro brings youth and diversity to the Democratic presidential field. But, overshadowed by some peers, he has failed to get traction in early polls.
Caro’s “Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing” describes a lifetime of digging for facts.
The authorities were investigating the episode, which was described by the mayor as an attack of “mob violence.” It is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
With decent pay, secure benefits and a certain amount of prestige, Border Patrol jobs are a middle-class mainstay in South Texas, especially for Mexican-Americans.
The children were sitting in the back seat of a car when a tree fell on it. Scenes of destruction in other parts of Texas also emerged.
In this week’s Crossing the Border newsletter, making sense of the whirlwind of news coming out of Washington.
He considered his wife and a former tennis star before settling on his brother. “He’s excited about caddying here, but it is not the holidays.”
The bill would have made women who obtained an abortion, or doctors who performed one, open to being charged with assault or criminal homicide.
Investors are finally paying attention to climate change — though not in the way you might hope.
Investors are finally paying attention to climate change — though not in the way you might hope.
For years, there have been warnings that America’s immigration system was going to fail. That time may be now.
For years, there have been warnings that America’s immigration system was going to fail. That time may be now.
President Trump believes that no issue better fires up his core supporters, meaning that immigration is certain to be at the center of the president’s case for a second term.
President Trump said Democrats would pay a price for their position on the issue. Julián Castro, the only Latino in the Democratic presidential field, fired back.
After the Red Raiders lost to Virginia, many who had shared the ride were looking ahead. “We’re going to get it done by the time I graduate,” one freshman said.
The defending Masters champion is estranged from his parents. They live six miles from Augusta National. His father keeps showing up at tournaments.
We did this in Austin and won.
Calvin Weaver, 73, claims that prison system employees violated his civil rights by ignoring his complaints for years.
The United States’ southwest border has, in effect, been partly closed because of American staffing shortages, costing businesses millions of dollars a day, according to industry officials.
The Democratic presidential candidates should look at what a growing number of prosecutors are doing to end mass incarceration.
In this week’s Crossing the Border newsletter, Cubans in Ciudad Juárez, and a conversation with Senator Jon Tester
The sweep targeted an electronics repair company that officials said had knowingly hired undocumented workers.
Despite 177 arrests, prosecutors tried only one person, unsuccessfully. A new district attorney has now dismissed all the remaining charges.
I’m not a thrill seeker in my day-to-day life. But putting myself in uncomfortable situations can help me understand the people I’m writing about.
There’s been a surge of migrant families at the southern border. The answer is not to close the border and cut off aid to Central American nations.
The president says shutting the border will punish Mexico, but economists say the economic damage to the United States would resemble the aftermath of a natural disaster.
Linda Greenhouse responds to readers’ comments on how abortion law is being influenced by the judiciary.
The makeshift fenced enclosure was empty on Sunday, and officials said they were “in the process” of relocating migrants who were held there, including families with small children.
Migration along the southern border typically increases in the spring, but authorities said the current numbers have reached “unmanageable” levels.
Mr. O’Rourke officially launched his campaign near the border with Mexico. His downtown rally came amid extraordinary discord over immigration.
A convenience store chain is the through-line of America’s second-most sprawling state.
The 7-year-old Guatemalan girl, who died in custody, was suffering from a severe bacterial infection that was very advanced, according to the autopsy report.
Photos this week showed migrants held under a highway overpass. A special edition of the Crossing the Border newsletter explores why.
Prison officials in Texas had rejected the inmate’s request that his spiritual adviser be present in the execution chamber, a decision his lawyers said violated the Constitution.
Corbin Jaeger was killed in 2017 when two storm chasers ran a stop sign at about 70 miles per hour, the lawsuit says. All three died in the crash.
Along the Rio Grande, the border fence may be a mile or more from the river, leaving some American homes and jobs in an isolated buffer zone.
Building a house is expensive, so two couples in Austin came up with a creative plan to share the pain.
Building a house is expensive, so two couples in Austin came up with a creative plan to share the pain.
The Democrat from Texas has hired Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, who worked for Barack Obama in 2012, to lead a campaign he had mostly overseen himself.
The Democrat from Texas has hired Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, who worked for Barack Obama in 2012, to lead a campaign he had mostly overseen himself.
The Border Patrol has closed the checkpoints in West Texas and New Mexico, which can be 100 miles from the border, to muster staffing to handle a major influx of migrant families.
In this week’s Crossing the Border newsletter, podcasts about the border, and an annual exodus of Midwesterners.
Officials had told residents to stay indoors for the second time in a week after a large chemical fire erupted at a storage tank on Sunday.
Hundreds of migrants are arriving every day in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, where officials are scrambling to house and feed them.
Hundreds of migrants are arriving every day in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, where officials are scrambling to house and feed them.