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Region of the U.S. state of Texas
U.S. hospitals provide emergency care to undocumented immigrants under federal law and variable state Emergency Medicaid programs, but coverage scope, access to primary care, and enforcement presence ...
reopened and expanded family detention facilities in in 2014 chiefly as an operational response to a sudden surge of asylum-seeking families from that overwhelmed border processing and shelter capacit...
Smugglers use multiple, evolving routes into the United States at the southwest border: official ports of entry (POEs) are a primary venue for drug smuggling because of volume and concealment opportun...
Since 2021 the federal record shows a mix of repair work, removals, targeted reinforcement and new construction tied to Trump-era border barriers: DHS/CBP began repairing flood-control and erosion dam...
US citizens can and have filed lawsuits against ICE and related federal agencies claiming emotional distress from alleged wrongful detention or abusive conduct, but success depends on the factual reco...
, identified as , and his father as they returned home in the ; school officials and the family’s lawyer say both were flown to a , while and spokespeople have pushed back saying the agency did not “t...
, identified in multiple news reports as , was detained by in , on 20 January 2026 and transported with his father to a center, according to school officials, local authorities and several national ou...
Texas has redrawn its congressional map since the 2020 census twice: an initial 38‑district plan enacted in 2021 and a new mid‑decade map passed in 2025 that will govern elections beginning in 2026. T...
Texas elects 38 members to the U.S. House of Representatives; sources in the provided materials disagree on the exact partisan split in 2025 because of timing, a reported vacancy, and competing tallie...
Two related but distinct claims emerge from the provided reporting: that ICE enforcement has left after parents’ arrests and that in one high-profile case ICE agents during an attempted arrest . Paral...
did support and oversee construction of new border fencing and barriers along the – border, adding roughly a hundred-plus miles to the existing system during its tenure; reporting and advocacy groups ...
Since 2020 cartel smuggling corridors have shifted toward the western border (Arizona and California) for fentanyl and toward remote desert routes in Arizona and New Mexico for migrant and mixed smugg...
Texas’s new congressional maps are an aggressive, mid-decade Republican redraw that lawmakers and advocates say is designed to add between three and five GOP-leaning seats and to reshape metro and Sou...
The Trump administration prioritized finishing and filling “gaps” in already identified high-traffic sectors of the southern border—most notably the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas and parts of south...
Texas’s 2025 congressional redistricting would have shifted roughly five U.S. House seats toward Republicans — reducing the number of majority- or coalition-minority districts and dismantling several ...
A five‑year‑old boy, identified as , was taken by federal immigration agents along with his father during a targeted operation in and transported to a center in , touching off national outrage, compet...
Seven Democrats — , , , , and — broke with most of their caucus to back the funding bill; their public rationales, as reported, emphasize avoiding a and preserving funding for specific DHS functions l...
boy, identified as , was detained by federal immigration agents along with his father on 20 January 2026 and transported to a facility in , according to multiple local and national reports . School an...
The Biden administration approved roughly 20 miles of new border barriers in South Texas (Rio Grande Valley/Starr County area) in 2023, using leftover Trump-era appropriations rather than new congress...
Estimates vary because agencies and reporters count “new” wall differently: Customs and Border Protection reported roughly 452–453 miles of border barrier work completed by January 2021, but independe...