Texas immigration

As the government rushes to process extensions of humanitarian parole, it may be too late for people in states like Texas to keep jobs that require drivers licenses. Some may be caught in gap where they can't work.

Laura Collins, immigration policy expert with the George W. Bush Institute, discusses the tumultuous history of legislation aimed at undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children.

Other resettlement agencies in Texas are taking on clients of the now defunct Refugee Services of Texas, but some say that process has been slow-going and confusing.

In a near-unanimous decision the high court ruled that Texas and other Republican-led states did not have standing to sue the Biden administration over its immigration enforcement.

About 40 migrants were transported to Los Angeles from Texas earlier this week as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s ongoing effort to have so-called sanctuary cities take the burden off Texas border towns.

The Texas Senate moved forward with its border-security legislation on Wednesday. That’s the measure has no place to go as long as the Texas House remains away from the Capitol.

Migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela will be allowed entry and given work permits. The administration will also expand the use of Title 42 to expel more migrants to Mexico.

Immigrant rights groups slammed the plan as ineffective and redundant.

The U.S. Justice Department sued Abbott and Texas after U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland called the order “dangerous and unlawful.”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Wednesday issued an executive order that restricts the transportation of detained migrants under the pretext of stopping the spread of COVID-19, something immigrant rights activists describe as unconstitutional and fascist.