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Migrants to the U.S. Must First Survive Shootouts and Shakedowns

McALLEN — Grisber Calero, a college student from violence-torn Nicaragua, is lying on a hospital bed in this border city, minutes away from surgery.The athletic 21-year-old seems calm and jovial, but he admits he’s scared....

By Jay Root / The Texas Tribune

Migrants Get a Second Chance at Asylum. But It's Still an Uphill Battle

Ruby Powers didn’t rush to celebrate when her client, a Honduran mother who has been separated from her 15-year-old son and detained for four months, passed her second “credible fear” interview to restart the asylum...

By Hannah Wiley / The Texas Tribune

Trump's Family Separation Policy Split This Family Apart. They're Still Not Back Together

Despite a legal team that includes celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti, an eight-year-old Guatemalan boy separated from his father under Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy remains in a shelter in Baytown with no end in sight.Byron...

By Hannah Wiley / The Texas Tribune

A Migrant Father Was Deported in May. His Son Is Still in a Shelter

SAN MIGUEL LIMÓN, Guatemala — Before he was deported in May, David Xol, an indigenous farmworker from Guatemala, made an urgent plea to U.S. officials at the immigrant processing center in McAllen.“There is no way...

By Juan Luis García Hernández, The Texas Tribune, Pia Flores, Nómada and David Yaffe-Bellany and Jay Root, The Texas Tribune

'I Just Wanted to Cross'

MCALLEN, TEXAS — After a cop took Claudia to a field, grabbed her by the throat and threatened to kill her and her 7-year-old son Kevin this spring, it didn’t take long for the 26-year-old...

By David Yaffe-Bellany, Jay Root and Juan Luis García Hernández/The Texas Tribune

Released Immigrants Describe Life With Ankle Monitors

"At least for me, it's humiliating to carry it — really like some prisoners, on house arrest”

By David Yaffe-Bellany / The Texas Tribune

Trump Once Bemoaned This Immigration 'Loophole.' Now He's Reinstated It

MCALLEN, Texas — After fleeing Guatemala, 25-year-old Silvia Guidel crossed the Rio Grande last month on a raft with her three young daughters, walked in the South Texas heat for nearly an hour, and then...

By David Yaffe-Bellany / The Texas Tribune
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