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Refugee advocates call on US President Joe Biden to ‘rethink’ plan to send additional soldiers to southern border.

A major US asylum restriction is ending. So why is the humanitarian crisis in northern Mexico getting worse? - The New Humanitarian puts quality, independent journalism at the service of the millions of people affected by humanitarian crises around the world

A look at how the current White House polices the border, as compared to the previous administration.

El Paso and Juarez area families separated by immigration status again will have a chance to meet and hug along the Rio Grande, a local nonprofit says.

HOUSTON, April 18, 2023 (BSS/AFP) - A Texas-based NGO called Monday for Mexico to end all immigration agreements with the

Police abuse of migrants passing at Mexican detention centers and highway checkpoints is widespread, often systematic and needs to be addressed with changes to the law, an El Paso advocacy group says.

Opponents say GOP lawmakers want to wrest immigration enforcement away from the federal government.

The Border Network for Human Rights organized a demonstration Wednesday to oppose two bills the group calls "anti-immigrant."

The House State Affairs committee is set to discuss HB 20 on Wednesday. If passed, the controversial legislation would create the Border Protection Unit, which opponents say would encourage vigilante justice on the state’s southern border.

Civil rights organizations plan to rally against several controversial border security bills in the Texas Legislature, including a proposal to allow "vigilante" patrols along the U.S.-Mexico border.