Published by the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Texas on September 18, 2024.
Finds that immigration enforcement severely limits undocumented people’s access to abortions in Texas.
Published by WOLA on September 13, 2024.
Calls for federal investigation into Texas National Guard use of force against migrants on the borderline.
Finds that “SB 4 is already causing significant fear and concern among Mexican nationals living in Texas.” (link at courtlistener.com)
Published by Texas Monthly on March 11, 2024.
U.S. policy is designed to force those entering Texas to cross at dangerous choke points. Those who don’t make it are often never identified.
Published by the Migration Policy Institute on February 28, 2024.
Explains the federal-state conflict over border and migration enforcement in Eagle Pass, Texas.
Published by Rolling Stone on February 25, 2024.
“A dispatch from Eagle Pass, where the Texas governor has amped up the cruelty toward migrants to boost his political profile.”
Published by Just Security on January 29, 2024.
Constitutional scholar Frank Bowman disputes claims that Republican governors have a constitutional right to defend against an “invasion” of migrants.
Published by the Texas Tribune on January 22, 2024.
A detailed narrative of the high-profile dispute between Texas state and U.S. federal border forces in Eagle Pass, Texas.
Published by the U.S. Department of Justice on January 14, 2024.
In a memo to the Supreme Court, the Solicitor General details what happened after the state of Texas barred the federal Border Patrol from a riverfront park in Eagle Pass. (Link at supremecourt.gov)
Published by the Los Angeles Times on September 20, 2023.
A narrative from Eagle Pass, Texas, a border city at the heart of the state government’s “Operation Lone Star.”
Published by MSNBC on July 19, 2023.
A column notes that Texas state authorities’ abuse of migrants happens in a context of larger national border policies that inflict suffering in order to “deter” migrants.
Published by the Texas Attorney General on January 24, 2023.
Complaint filed by 20 GOP-governed states’ attorneys-general opposing the Biden administration’s humanitarian parole program. (Original link)
Published by USA Today on November 2. 2022.
Many migrants bused to New York from the border “step onto the buses with the promise of a new life in a new city and step off instantly homeless.”
Published by the New York Times on October 12, 2022.
Investigates a September 27, 2022 incident in which twin brothers, one the warden of a jail that has housed detained immigrants, shot at a group of migrants in Hudspeth County, Texas, killing one.
Published by the Intercept on October 12, 2022.
A report from Kinney County, Texas, along the border between Del Rio and Eagle Pass, where local leadership enthusiastically backs the Texas state government’s anti-migrant measures.
Published by the Texas Tribune on September 28, 2022.
A look at the data questions the results of the Texas state government’s border crackdown.
Published by the Washington Post on September 7, 2022.
A story citing many migrants and aid workers finds medium-term shelter among the most acute needs for the nearly 10,000 migrants whom Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has bused to Washington, DC since March.
Published by the Dallas Morning News on September 1, 2022.
The Texas state government’s controversial border security deployment.
Publicado por Efecto Cocuyo el 26 de agosto de 2022.
Venezuelan migrants without U.S. support connections are living in shelters after boarding buses to Washington, DC funded by Texas’s Republican governor.
Published by the New Yorker on August 2, 2022.
A profile of the South Texas Human Rights Center, which leaves water and helps identify remains of missing migrants in Falfurrias, Texas, and the Center’s director, Eddie Canales.
A complaint to the Justice Department about racial profiling and dangerous vehicle pursuits carried out by Texas state law enforcement personnel within the framework of the so-called “Operation Lone Star.”
Published by WOLA on June 28, 2022.
The Texas tragedy highlighted a worsening trend of migrant deaths along the border, which result in large part from “prevention through deterrence” policies and Title 42.
Published by the Los Angeles Times on May 13, 2022.
“Patriots for America,” a conservative Christian militia, is intercepting migrant children in mid-Texas while Border Patrol and local authorities look on.
Published by ProPublica, the Texas Tribune, and the Marshall Project on April 27, 2022.
Finds seven examples in which Texas’s state government has been less-than-forthcoming, to say the least, about the results of Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) state border crackdown.
Published by the New Yorker on April 26, 2022.
National Guardsmen assigned to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) “Operation Lone Star” are seeking to exercise a new federal right to form a union.
