Immigrants

Dozens of men, women and children from Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and other nations were found trapped in the tractor-trailer on Quintana Road in Southwest San Antonio in 2022.

The state has vowed to assist the president in his efforts to revamp immigration. But Texas' biggest cities and school districts are more reluctant to help.

The CBP One app has provided nearly 900,000 people with asylum appointments since January 2023, contributing to a drop in illegal border crossings.

Texas has spent billions of dollars on its own immigration enforcement and border security, making them the ideal partner to the new Trump administration.

New White House measure will go into effect if more than 2,500 migrants cross illegally per day.

The El Paso Sector of U.S. Border Patrol has seen about 1,000 migrant encounters per day.

Senate Bill 4, the Texas law that allows local police to arrest people suspected of being in the country illegally, is blocked yet again after a late night order Tuesday from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

A committee on Tuesday declined to advance a House bill that would increase penalties for smuggling and operating a stash house. The move comes as both chambers are already at an impasse over property-tax relief.

As the manhunt for the person accused of killing five people in Texas continues, Gov. Greg Abbott has been criticized for what people are calling his callous response to the shooting.

The makeup of Texas voters is much more diverse today than during the 2016 elections. And some of that growth is the result of a nearly two percentage point increase in the number of eligible immigrant voters.