Immigration

A judge in Travis County will be hearing arguments next week to determine whether the Office of Attorney General can depose the cofounder of Team Brownsville, a nongovernmental organization (NGO) that provides services to migrants.

A state district judge has knocked down an attempt by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to depose Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in a bid to suss out information on alleged human smuggling.

Federal authorities are suing Southwest Key, an organization long steeped in controversy in the Rio Grande Valley and across the country that houses migrant children.

EDINBURG — Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley is fighting against efforts by the Texas Attorney General’s Office to investigate the religious nonprofit over claims that it may be participating in human trafficking.

The federal government in July filed four land condemnation lawsuits against property owners in Starr County seeking more than 1,000 acres for the purpose of building a border wall.

A scathing ruling by a judge in El Paso calling the Texas Attorney General’s Office’s lawsuit against a migrant shelter there as “outrageous and intolerable” hasn’t stopped the state from pursuing legal action against one of the country’s most well-known nonprofits that assists asylum seekers: Catholic Charities in McAllen.

McALLEN (AP) — A judge blasted efforts by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to shutter one of the oldest and largest migrant shelters on the U.S.-Mexico border in a scathing ruling Tuesday, accusing the Republican of "outrageous" conduct over his claims that the shelter encourages migrants to enter the country illegally.

WASHINGTON — When President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced new asylum restrictions intended to reduce the number of migrants entering the country illegally, he was flanked by Texas officials from U.S.-Mexico border communities.

McALLEN — As Bishop Daniel E. Flores of the Brownsville Diocese held Mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church Tuesday morning commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the Humanitarian Respite Center, news broke about President Joe Biden’s executive order that will restrict the number of asylum seekers entering the United States.

The city of Brownsville announced late Monday that Mayor John Cowen Jr. has been invited to the White House along with two other Rio Grande Valley mayors for a border-related announcement from President Joe Biden on Tuesday.