Texas immigration

Their filing says the lawsuit that struck down in-state tuition for undocumented students was "contrived" to keep their voices out.

While protests in Houston, San Antonio and Dallas remained mostly peaceful, tensions flared in Austin Monday evening.

An hour after the march's start Monday, protesters who neared a downtown federal building dispersed after law enforcement fired tear gas canisters at them.

Shortly after the U.S. Department of Justice sued to block Texas from giving in-state tuition to immigrant students without legal status, state Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the two parties had filed a joint motion asking a court to permanently end the policy.

The combination of tariffs and tighter immigration enforcement has compounded the growing uncertainty in the restaurant industry.

Immigration has made up an increasing portion of the state's new residents in recent years.

People without legal status are a key part of the dairy industry's workforce. Some producers hope their economic contribution will protect farms from ICE raids and may open the conversation around policy reform.

A lawyer says Denisse Parra Vargas was stopped last week for having expired tags and told to report to a processing center Tuesday. Her family is now in Mexico.

The three former students went to UT-Arlington and UT-Dallas. While they have prevailed in court so far, many other international students' education futures remain uncertain.

The federal government will begin collecting detailed information about who's making cash transactions of $200 to $10,000 at money exchange businesses in several South Texas counties. The effort is part of the Trump administration's plan to go after drug cartels and other criminal groups.