As Public Charge Rule Goes Into Effect, Disinformation and Fear Have Biggest...
The new federal public charge rule took effect temporarily this week, significantly expanding the number of factors immigration authorities weigh when considering green card applications. While the new...
View ArticleDallas Immigration Advocates Seek to Protect Women Fleeing Gender Violence
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...
View ArticleCoronavirus Pandemic Creates New Worries for North Texas Refugees
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...
View ArticleImmigrant Advocates Across North Texas Celebrate Supreme Court's DACA Decision
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....
View ArticleActivists Want Tarrant County to Stop Doing ICE's Work For Them
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...
View ArticleHigh Marks for City Hall, but Livability and Jobs for Immigrants Need Boost,...
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...
View Article'Fascism Free Zone': Dallas Activists Counter Patriot Front's White...
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.
View ArticleKay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center To House 3,000 Immigrant Teens
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...
View ArticleIn Dallas, Gov. Abbott Takes Aim at Biden Administration over Immigration
Texas officials have blamed the Biden administration for an uptick in arrivals on the border, a charge rejected by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
View ArticleAs Texas Republicans Blast Biden, the President Defends Border Policies
As arrivals on the southern border continue to swell, President Biden defended himself against Republican criticism.
View ArticleTexas Officials Signed Last-Second Agreement to ‘Hamstring’ Biden Immigration...
Hoping to thwart Biden's immigration reforms, Louisiana, Texas and Arizona entered agreements with DHS during the last days of the Trump administration.
View ArticleKen Paxton Went to the Border to (Again) Blame Biden for Immigration Crisis
Ken Paxton traveled to Mission, Texas, on Wednesday to hold a press conference lamenting the Biden administration's immigration policies.
View ArticleVolunteers: Migrant Teens Held in Dallas Convention Center Feel Imprisoned
The longer time goes on, the more the convention center feels like a jail to the boys.
View ArticleAt Dallas QAnon Convention, Conspiracy Theories Run Wild and Reporters Kicked...
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.
View ArticleDallas Officials Received Dozens of Anti-Immigrant Emails Over Boys at...
The emails often referred to the teen boys as “aliens,”“infectious” and potential criminals.
View Article‘They Need to Go Home’: Neo-Nazis Can’t Find a Warm Welcome at Texas Rallies
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.
View ArticleCPAC Is Coming to Dallas This Weekend. Will QAnon Be on the Program?
July 9-11, conservatives will be at Dallas’ Hilton Anatole hotel, where the American Conservative Union is holding "America UnCanceled."
View ArticleCPAC in Dallas Was a Different Kind of Strange
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...
View ArticleLocal ICE Partnerships Are Supposed to Target Criminals. In North Texas, They...
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....
View ArticleExotic Cat Rancher Linked to Tiger King Locked Up On Federal Gun Charges
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.
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