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Three migrants, a woman and two children, drowned in the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas – very recently the epicenter of the migrant crisis – just days after state authorities blocked the US ...
Governor Abbott claimed that Texas had received more refugees than any other state, stating that 10% of all refugees in the United States had resettled in Texas over the past 10 years. [39] On January 15, 2020, a federal judge blocked the executive order, ruling that individual states do not have the power to deny refugees entry and that doing ...
Mayorkas, who is the target of a Republican-led impeachment effort in the U.S. House over the border crisis, said his visit to Texas to meet with front-line immigration agents is part of the ...
Texas received many Vietnamese refugees in the late 1970s because it had a warm climate, an expanding economy, and a location in proximity to the ocean. [1] Vietnamese from fishing and shrimping backgrounds saw Houston as a good settlement point due to its proximity to the Gulf of Mexico. [4]
The mayors of Chicago, New York City and Denver renewed pleas Wednesday for more federal help and coordination with Texas over the growing number of asylum-seekers arriving in their cities by bus ...
The 2014 American immigration crisis was a surge in unaccompanied children and women from the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA) seeking entrance to the United States in 2014. According to U.S. law, an unaccompanied alien child refers to a person under 18 years of age, who has no lawful immigration status in the U.S., and who does not ...
Authorities in Texas began arresting migrants late Wednesday evening at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass and beyond in the latest escalation of the migrant surge at the US-Mexico border.
The state reported sending 119,200 migrants to cities outside of Texas, [4] contributing to the New York City migrant housing crisis and other crises in cities such as Chicago, Denver, and Washington, D.C. [16] [19] Officials in these cities have responded to the drop-off of migrants by deploying emergency measures and calling states of ...