Immigration

Report: Migrants Held by Border Agencies Hit, Threatened and Sexually Assaulted

Report: Migrants Held by Border Agencies Hit, Threatened and Sexually Assaulted

Wrongly Deported as a Teen, Jakadrien Turner Speaks Out About the Lawyer Who Defended Her

Wrongly Deported as a Teen, Jakadrien Turner Speaks Out About the Lawyer Who Defended Her

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As ICE Broke Its Own Healthcare Protocols, Dozens of Immigrants Died in Detention

By Michael Murney
Jul 23, 2021

By all accounts, Mauro Rivera Romero was clearly ill. After U.S. Border Patrol officers arrested him on a Greyhound bus near El Paso in 2011, he complained of persistent abdominal pain. He told officers he'd been hospitalized for a stomach infection only days before. On his second day in Immigration...
Exotic Cat Rancher Linked to Tiger King Locked Up On Federal Gun Charges

By Jacob Vaughn
Jul 19, 2021

For the next 28 months, exotic cat rancher Paul Michael Malagerio will be locked up in federal prison for his visa overstay and illegally possessing three firearms.
Local ICE Partnerships Are Supposed to Target Criminals. In North Texas, They Rarely Do.

By Michael Murney
Jul 14, 2021

During a meeting with several sheriffs of border counties this past weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott said he wants the state to give more money to bankroll local law enforcement in enforcing immigration laws. "Our goal is not to release them," the governor said. "Our goal is to jail them." Enforcing immigration...
CPAC in Dallas Was a Different Kind of Strange

By Jacob Vaughn
Jul 12, 2021

Overall, the event, which would be capped off with a speech from the former president, seemed like a watered down version of the Q-affiliated For God & Country Patriot Roundup event in Dallas over Memorial Day weekend.
CPAC Is Coming to Dallas This Weekend. Will QAnon Be on the Program?

By Jacob Vaughn
Jul 6, 2021

July 9-11, conservatives will be at Dallas’ Hilton Anatole hotel, where the American Conservative Union is holding "America UnCanceled."
‘They Need to Go Home’: Neo-Nazis Can’t Find a Warm Welcome at Texas Rallies

By Steven Monacelli
Jun 14, 2021

When a group of White Lives Matter demonstrators showed up in the small town of Centerville, they didn't find the warm welcome they were hoping for.
Dallas Officials Received Dozens of Anti-Immigrant Emails Over Boys at Convention Center

By Jacob Vaughn
Jun 4, 2021

The emails often referred to the teen boys as “aliens,” “infectious” and potential criminals.
At Dallas QAnon Convention, Conspiracy Theories Run Wild and Reporters Kicked Out

By Jacob Vaughn
Jun 1, 2021

The faces behind the group are the couple John Sabal and his partner, Amy. On the social media platform Telegram, the two go by QAnon John and QueenAnon Amy.
Volunteers: Migrant Teens Held in Dallas Convention Center Feel Imprisoned

By Jacob Vaughn
May 13, 2021

The longer time goes on, the more the convention center feels like a jail to the boys.
Ken Paxton Went to the Border to (Again) Blame Biden for Immigration Crisis

By Patrick Strickland
Apr 28, 2021

Ken Paxton traveled to Mission, Texas, on Wednesday to hold a press conference lamenting the Biden administration's immigration policies.
Texas Officials Signed Last-Second Agreement to ‘Hamstring’ Biden Immigration Policies

By Patrick Strickland
Apr 17, 2021

Hoping to thwart Biden's immigration reforms, Louisiana, Texas and Arizona entered agreements with DHS during the last days of the Trump administration.
As Texas Republicans Blast Biden, the President Defends Border Policies

By Patrick Strickland
Mar 25, 2021

As arrivals on the southern border continue to swell, President Biden defended himself against Republican criticism.
In Dallas, Gov. Abbott Takes Aim at Biden Administration over Immigration

By Patrick Strickland
Mar 17, 2021

Texas officials have blamed the Biden administration for an uptick in arrivals on the border, a charge rejected by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center To House 3,000 Immigrant Teens

By Jacob Vaughn
Mar 16, 2021

On Saturday, Homeland Security directed FEMA to support response for unaccompanied children. Around the same time, FEMA and U.S. Health and Human Services staff were on a tour of the convention center with Dallas’ Office of Emergency Management.
'Fascism Free Zone': Dallas Activists Counter Patriot Front's White Supremacist Propaganda

By Jacob Vaughn
Feb 25, 2021

A Dallas activist said they saw an uptick in Patriot Front propaganda going up in the city after the riot at the Capitol last month.
High Marks for City Hall, but Livability and Jobs for Immigrants Need Boost, Study Says

By Jacob Vaughn
Aug 20, 2020

Until recently, Aaron Escajeda had never been to Dallas. He grew up in El Paso and worked at a settlement home, surrounding him in the flow of immigrants. So, when he came to the Big D with 15 of his classmates from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs...
Activists Want Tarrant County to Stop Doing ICE's Work For Them

By Tyler Hicks
Jul 16, 2020

On a humid Tuesday morning in mid June, more than 100 parents, daughters, sons and activists gathered on the steps of the Tarrant County courthouse. The county’s commissioners were convening for a vote on a controversial agreement between the sheriff’s office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and members of...
Immigrant Advocates Across North Texas Celebrate Supreme Court's DACA Decision

By Simone Carter
Jun 19, 2020

The U.S. Supreme Court has been busy settling landmark cases this week. Monday, it ruled that gay and transgender people are protected from workplace discrimination under the Civil Rights Act. Thursday, it upheld the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields certain undocumented immigrants from deportation. Considering the court’s...
Coronavirus Pandemic Creates New Worries for North Texas Refugees

By Tyler Hicks
May 15, 2020

Refugees in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and the organizations that work with them worry that the coronavirus pandemic and the economic turmoil it's causing will make life harder for an already-vulnerable group of people. “My parents’ work is no longer safe, and they don't have many hours to work,” says...
Dallas Immigration Advocates Seek to Protect Women Fleeing Gender Violence

By Meredith Lawrence
Mar 17, 2020

Growing up in Egypt, Sahar lived in a city near the sunny Mediterranean Sea. In the center of her hometown is a shrine to her great-grandfather, considered a saint in the Muslim faith. But her parents did not require her to wear a hijab, and her mother didn't wear the...

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