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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…
Following the close of the Republican debate on Wednesday, several candidates along with their supporters began questioning whether children who are born to immigrants in this country illegally should be considered American citizens. However, some in Texas have escalated the situation beyond mere talk, requiring parents to show specific forms of ID in order to…
While women and children being held in Texas immigration detention centers are happy to hear they are to be released under the orders of a federal judge, their attorneys say the government has failed to give a deadline as to when that will take place. “We are seeing more and more that Immigration and Customs…
Un nuevo informe publicado por el Instituto de Políticas de Migración muestra un estimado de 205.000 inmigrantes no autorizados están viviendo en el Condado de San Diego. Esto representa un aumento de alrededor de 24.000 desde que la organización dio a conocer su informe anterior en enero. Los nuevos datos hace que el Condado de…
A new report issued by the Migration Policy Institute shows an estimated 205,000 unauthorized immigrants are living in San Diego County. That’s an increase of about 24,000 since the organization released its previous report in January. The new data makes San Diego County the seventh largest region in the United States to house unauthorized immigrants.…
While Rosa Robles Loreto could leave the small, Tucson church where she has taken shelter for the last year, there is no guarantee she would not be deported to Mexico. It’s for this reason that she has decided to stay put. This means she is only able to see her family when they visit the…