illegal immigration

The estimated 1.7 million undocumented people in Texas are now targets of the Trump administration’s nationwide immigration crackdown. Here’s what we know about them.

Under the state-federal partnership, an unspecified number of KBI agents would receive ICE training allowing them to issue immigration detainers, serve warrants for some immigration violations and arrest people allegedly in the U.S. without authorization.

In 2006, 10% of the town of Cactus disappeared overnight when the local slaughterhouse was raided.

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

The U.S. Department of Justice is reconsidering its lawsuit against Oklahoma’s sweeping immigration law, House Bill 4156. State Attorney General Gentner Drumond says he’s hopeful the law will be enforced soon.

Texas groups that advocate for children and immigrants said they’re concerned about President Trump’s new immigration policies, but there’s still a lot they don’t know about how those policies will be implemented.

The price of beef is at all-time highs, but a major policy initiative of the incoming Trump Administration could drive them higher. In an industry that's already strapped for workers, mass deportations could put some ranchers and feedlots out of business.

The legislation was initially blocked last week, but the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has now reversed that order. If the U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t intervene, the law could go into effect later his week.

Immigrant rights groups slammed the plan as ineffective and redundant.

In a major ruling with implications for employers of undocumented immigrants, a federal judge in Kansas said a law making it a crime to "encourage" or ...