Written by Tory Johnson, Immigration Impact Following the release of President Trump’s immigration enforcement executive orders and implementation memos, and the recent arrest of a transgender domestic violence victim at a courthouse in El Paso, Texas, there has been widespread confusion about where immigration enforcement can and cannot take place….

Written by Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact Officers with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)—the federal agency which includes the Border Patrol—are rarely held accountable for their actions. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the case of Sergio Hernandez, a 15-year-old boy shot dead in 2010 in Mexico by a…

District Attorney Roberto Serna (Press Release) On February 21, 2017, a Maverick County Jury was selected to hear the murder case against Defendant Juan Enrique Rodriguez Ruiz for the murder of his wife Maria Pesina Molina Rodriguez. This murder occurred on December 24, 2015. On February 24, 2017, the jury…

Written by Mary Giovagnoli, Immigration Impact The Trump administration ensured this week that its immigration enforcement policies will be a chaotic affair marked by mistakes, civil rights violations and overzealous enforcement. They did this by outlining measures that they claim simply return power to immigration agents to do their jobs—measures…

by Cassandra Pollock and Bobby Blanchard, The Texas Tribune Feb. 27, 2017 The Senate Committee on State Affairs is meeting at 9 this morning and will consider legislation to protect doctors from wrongful birth lawsuits. Follow Texas Tribune reporter Marissa Evans for updates. The bill would prohibit parents from suing…

by Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune Feb. 24, 2017 Editor’s note: If you’d like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey’s column, click here. The state budget is tight. Problems in Texas’ child welfare system have risen to emergency proportions. Kids who have interacted with that system are disproportionately…

By: Marcelo Rochabrun, ProPublica Mexican officials have flatly rejected the Trump administration’s plan to deport to Mexico migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S. southern border, regardless of nationality. On the eve of a high-level meeting between the two countries, Mexican officials said Mexico will never accept the return of Guatemalans,…

(Press Release) Wood Group PSN Inc., a Nevada corporation headquartered in Houston, Texas, was ordered to pay $9.5 million today in two separate cases involving their conduct in the Gulf of Mexico. Specifically, Wood Group PSN was ordered to pay $7 million for falsely reporting over several years that personnel…

(Press Release) The U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis issued full year 2016 U.S. international trade in goods and services data. The top five countries based on trade in goods in 2016 were China, Canada, Mexico, Japan and Germany. Trade in goods with China was $578.6 billion….

By: Ginger Thompson and Marcelo Rochabrun, ProPublica Leer en español. Buried deep in the Trump administration’s plans to round up undocumented immigrants is a provision certain to enrage Mexico — new authority for federal agents to deport anyone caught crossing the southern border to Mexico, regardless of where they are…