Finds that “SB 4 is already causing significant fear and concern among Mexican nationals living in Texas.” (link at courtlistener.com)
Tag: Texas
More Migrants Are Drowning in the Rio Grande Than Ever. No Agency Is Keeping Track of How Many.
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.
Standoff at Eagle Pass: A High-Stakes U.S. Border Enforcement Showdown Comes to a Small Texas Park
Published by the Migration Policy Institute on February 28, 2024.
Explains the federal-state conflict over border and migration enforcement in Eagle Pass, Texas.
The Human Toll of Greg Abbott’s War at the Border
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.”
Immigration Is Not an “Invasion” under the Constitution
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.
In Eagle Pass, a tense border standoff between Texas and the federal government is reaching a crescendo
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.
Second Supplemental Memorandum Regarding Emergency Application to Vacate the Injunction Pending Appeal
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)
Operation Lone Star transformed this Texas border town, but the battle didn’t start there
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.”
Texas’ plan to make crossing the Rio Grande more dangerous is inhumane
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.
Complaint Against Humanitarian Parole Program
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)
Political theater vs. daily survival: Inside the dire situation facing migrants bused across US
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.”
Death on the Border: Were Twin Brothers Hunting Migrants or Wildlife?
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.
The Texas Border County at the Center of a Dangerous Right-Wing Experiment
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.
Migrant encounters at the border are higher today than they were before Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star began
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.
From border town to ‘border town,’ bused migrants seek new lives in D.C. area
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.
Drones, choppers, chases: How Texas DPS pursues migrants under $4B Abbott border effort
Published by the Dallas Morning News on September 1, 2022.
The Texas state government’s controversial border security deployment.
Migrantes venezolanos en Washington DC: dormir en un refugio para desamparados
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.
The Missing Migrants of South Texas
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.
Operation Lone Star: Racial Profiling in Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Traffic Stops and High Death Toll from DPS Vehicle Pursuits
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.”
The Tragedy in Texas Was Avoidable, Just Like Hundreds of Other Migrant Deaths on U.S. Soil This Year
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.
Border militia stops migrants and shoots video of kids. Rights groups say they’re racist
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.
Reality Check: Seven Times Texas Leaders Misled the Public About Operation Lone Star
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.
The National Guard Soldiers Trying to Unionize
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.
Texas has spent billions of dollars on border security. But what taxpayers got in return is a mystery.
Published by Propublica, the Texas Tribune, and the Marshall Project on April 18, 2022.
A look back at 17 years of Texas governors’ border security operations, usually launched in the run-up to elections, none of which appears to have had any lasting impact on security or migration.
Contractors are making millions with little oversight due to Gov. Abbott’s border ’emergency’
Published by the Houston Chronicle on April 14, 2022.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s “disaster” declaration at the border has allowed the state to engage in contracts without a formal solicitation process.