IMMIGRANTS

A sudden influx of migrants along the U. S.-Mexico border has led to a flood of people into the San Antonio area.

Dozens of migrants were found overheated and dehydrated in a train car Friday in Kinney County, Sheriff Brad Coe told KSAT 12 News.

Kinney County and several other counties have declared an “invasion” in Texas by migrants, and officials want Gov. Greg Abbott to recognize the problem and treat it as such.

A federal jury in Del Rio found three San Antonio residents guilty of human smuggling.

Hundreds of people were gathered in prayer inside the San Fernando Cathedral on Thursday evening, mourning the deaths of 53 migrants inside of a tractor-trailer.

The Supreme Court has ruled against immigrants who are seeking their release from long periods of detention while they fight deportation orders.

Immigrant advocates say they have reached a settlement with the U.S. government so they can keep operating a free hotline that lets detained immigrants report concerns about custody conditions.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the government can indefinitely detain certain immigrants who say they will face persecution or torture if they are deported to their native countries.

Laredo and Del Rio are about 180 miles apart, and so are their mayors to some degree in their reaction to Gov. Greg Abbott’s disaster declaration for border counties.

A longstanding way of transporting large numbers of undocumented immigrants, tractor-trailer smuggling, has been on the rise in the U.S. Border Patrol Laredo sector.

“They cannot cross the border without having a negative test result,” Romero said. The other group is people who crossed the border illegally and are dropped off by U.S. Customs and Border Protection under the catch-and-release program. Of those tests, 169, or just over 13%, tested positive, but that’s just for the city of Brownsville. Romero said local non-governmental organizations have set up shelters and hotel rooms for those who test positive to stay in and quarantine if they choose to. Romero said the city received 10,000 Rapid COVID-19 tests from the Texas Department of Emergency Management to facilitate the process.

25 percent of U.S. children are children of immigrants or refugees and there are 20 million children in the U.S. with at least one immigrant parent. These children are more likely to struggle in school and are more likely to live in poverty, with possible roadblocks along their path to reaching their potential. 16-year-old Alexis Dorman works hard to make sure every child knows their rights. “I found a niche for helping refugees and immigrants,” said Alexis Dorman, founder of CAFYIR. If you would like to check out the tutorials for your child, you can find them on YouTube at CAFYIR.