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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has given law enforcement sweeping new powers to arrest and deport migrants who illegally enter the state.. Critics say the new law, which punishes repeat offenders with ...
Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday ordered Texas hospitals enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program to report what costs they incur for treating undocumented immigrants. In a ...
President Joe Biden is facing mounting pressure from Democratic lawmakers and allies to extend protections to immigrants in the United States amid party fears over President-elect Donald Trump’s ...
Texas, et al. [a] is a court case in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit regarding Texas Senate Bill 4, a statute allowing state officials to arrest and deport migrants. The Biden administration, the city of El Paso , and two civil rights organizations petitioned the Supreme Court to stay the application Texas Senate Bill 4 ...
Democratic officials' reactions have changed as migrant influxes grew over time. In 2022, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said it was "nice the State of Texas is helping [migrants] get to their final destination", while in 2023, the White House and other Democrats called the busing program a "political stunt".
The next wave of immigrants arrived in the mid-1980s, prompted by the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act. [2] By 2022, there were over 5.17 million foreign-born people in the State of Texas. [3] Immigration is a major topic in American politics and was a key issue for President Donald Trump. Despite a decrease in the rate of ...
In February 2024, the nonprofit Every Texan reported that for every 1,000 workers, Texas immigrants and asylum seekers add $2.6 million to state and local taxes in their first year of eligibility ...
The second incident occurred on Oct. 2, around 7:30 a.m. when DPS received a request for assistance from the Texas National Guard regarding a very large group of illegal immigrants in the Hopedale ...