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    Jun 18

    1/ Thread: Here’s everything we know about immigrant children being separated from their families.

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  2. 4 hours ago

    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said this week said it is cutting funding to Houston's Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, weeks after reported an outsized number of transplants resulting in deaths in recent years.

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  3. 5 hours ago

    207 children in El Paso shelters 393 in San Antonio 1,074 in Houston Here's what we know about the shelters housing nearly 5,000 migrant children across Texas:

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  4. 5 hours ago

    We’ve been reporting on the “zero tolerance” immigration policy from the border, Washington, D.C., and Austin. Read all our coverage here.

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  5. 5 hours ago

    Texas Democrats this weekend signed off on a party platform that includes support for legalizing marijuana, tuition-free community college and maintaining the Top 10 Percent Rule. The full redux from

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  6. 5 hours ago

    Betomania, the border and Trump-bashing: here are 's five big takeaways from the Texas Democratic convention

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    6 hours ago

    A Guatemalan mom who crossed the border into South Texas watched as officers took kids of other parents but not her 6-month-old. “I think it was because he’s so young. They were taking the kids that looked older.”

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    6 hours ago

    Look at this map. Look at it. More than 1,000 children in 11 shelters in Houston alone.

    Holy moly: dataviz team got the latest numbers, and as of yesterday, there were a whopping 5K unaccompanied migrant kids in Texas shelters.
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  9. 7 hours ago

    Kerry Kennedy — daughter of Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy — kicked off a 24-day hunger strike with others protesting the Trump administration's immigration policies today in McAllen, Texas, where Melania Trump visited a children's shelter just two days before. 📸:

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    8 hours ago

    No “” for migrant families released in . The lucky ones are being released from federal custody with ankle monitors. reports |

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  11. 7 hours ago

    56/ Confusion over continues, as hundreds of families apparently evade it. One Guatemalan woman carrying infant son was strapped with ankle monitor and put on a bus to McAllen with other migrant mothers. reports: 📸:

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  12. 8 hours ago

    57 percent of Texas voters oppose separating parents and children who enter the U.S. illegally — but Democrats and Republicans are strikingly divided on the issue. Our / poll:

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    8 hours ago

    "For hundreds of unaccompanied immigrant minors detained in a hastily built tent camp in Tornillo, Texas, legal aid and help finding family members could still be weeks away"

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  14. 8 hours ago

    Update from Tornillo , per U.S. Reps. & : — At least 7 girls between ages 13 and 17 being held in Tornillo — Some parents of Central American child detainees have already been deported The latest from :

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  15. 9 hours ago

    Amid all the family separation headlines last week, one story you may have missed: US Customs and Border Protection officials say they're preparing to seize private land in the Rio Grande Valley to make way for Trump's border wall.

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    9 hours ago

    The convention just adjourned after a SUPER CLOSE voice vote, called by .

    Right now delegates are debating whether to just accept the ~30 pending resolutions without reading them and go home.
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    10 hours ago

    . and told press that 7 minor girls arrived today and are in detention at camp in .

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    10 hours ago

    Support or Oppose Separating Children and Parents Who are Apprehended While Trying to Enter the U.S. Illegally, by urban/suburban/rural (June 2018 / Poll). More:

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  19. 10 hours ago

    More than 70 years later, some Japanese-Americans who were held at a Texas internment camp during World War II feel like they’re watching history repeat itself.

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  20. 11 hours ago

    /54 NEAR EL PASO: U.S. Reps. & arrived in Tornillo, Texas, today to tour temporary detention facilities housing immigrant minors separated from their parents. (📸: )

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  21. 11 hours ago

    The Texas Supreme Court said it didn't intend to get into the "roving, roiling" local control debate when it struck down Laredo's plastic bag ban on Friday — but the decision is likely to impact bans in cities statewide.

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