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Several hundred undocumented immigrants will soon be calling a camp and conference center near Waxahachie home. Nearly 500 unaccompanied children will begin arriving at the Lakeview Camp as early as tomorrow. Ellis County is abuzz with the news. “I had no idea what was going on,” says Tal Sanders. “I got information that there’s refugees…

President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration is running out of time, and the state of Texas is taking advantage of that fact. The state asked the U.S. Supreme Court for more time to file court papers in its dispute with the federal government regarding the president’s deportation relief programs. Should Texas get its way,…

Nearly 100 immigrant women have gone on a hunger strike in an attempt to be granted release from the Hutto, Texas detention center. Their efforts are aimed at drawing attention to the challenging living conditions at the facility. The strike began with twenty-seven women on October 28th. According to Cristina Parker of Grassroots Leadership, an…

Federal immigration reform has taken a back seat as lawmakers turn their attention to next year’s election, budget matters and partisanship. However, communities around the country refuse the let the issue fall to the wayside, with an estimated 11 million people lacking immigration documents, controversially calling the United States home. They continue to live in…

Pope Francis’ message to Congress Wednesday urged politicians to see immigrants as people, to see their faces and hear their stories. This message rang true for Jessica Azua, who was leading a protest that afternoon in an attempt to convince Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to reconsider his stance on an immigration-related lawsuit in which his…