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Stories by Julian Aguilar
Posted Feb 12, 2019, 1:47 am
Julian Aguilar & Miguel Gutierrez/The Texas Tribune
For the sixth straight day since arriving at the Texas-Mexico border, roughly 1,600 Central American migrants intent on seeking asylum in the U.S. are playing a frustrating waiting game in Mexico.... Read more»
Posted Feb 11, 2019, 5:50 pm
Julian Aguilar & Darla Cameron/The Texas Tribune
As another government shutdown looms, the president follows his State of the Union speech with a rally in the city he said was plagued by crime before border fencing went up. Here's what history shows about border enforcement and crime in El Paso.... Read more»
Posted Jan 29, 2019, 4:24 pm
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
The Mexican government has agreed to take 10,000 migrants seeking U.S. asylum, despite protests that the move threatens legal representation and exposes asylum seekers to violence.... Read more»
Posted Dec 27, 2018, 1:48 pm
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
The facility, which critics have called a “tent city” and sits on a remote port of entry, was opened in June to house mainly unaccompanied minors who crossed the border without parents or guardians.... Read more»
Posted Dec 25, 2018, 1:43 pm
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
EL PASO – Hundreds of asylum-seekers spent part of Christmas Eve in a downtown parking lot here without knowing where they’ll end up next.... Read more»
Posted Dec 12, 2018, 3:20 pm
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
The Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains Act of 2018 would allow border counties to apply for federal grants to help identify bodies of undocumented immigrants.... Read more»
Posted Dec 6, 2018, 12:18 pm
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
Juan David Ortiz, an intelligence supervisor for the Border Patrol, was arrested in the pre-dawn hours Sept. 15 after local and state law enforcement say he allegedly murdered four Laredo-area sex workers.... Read more»
Posted Oct 29, 2018, 2:13 pm
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
Trump administration officials say the deployment will include three helicopter units, mobile command and medical units, military police and more.... Read more»
Posted Aug 13, 2018, 1:40 pm
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
The immigration detention facility for undocumented immigrant minors in Tornillo will remain open another month, officials confirmed.... Read more»
Posted May 15, 2018, 1:26 pm
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
Even before last year's protests, lawmaker scuffles and marathon committee hearings over "sanctuary" legislation, Texas counties were some of the most compliant when it came to immigration enforcement, a new study shows.... Read more»
Posted Apr 5, 2018, 5:07 pm
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
A mandate handed down by the Trump administration designed to speed up activity within the country’s backlogged immigration court system could actually have the opposite effect, the president National Association of Immigration Judges said.... Read more»
Posted Apr 5, 2018, 4:53 pm
Julian Aguilar & Darla Cameron/The Texas Tribune
Homeland Security said a surge of apprehensions at the border justifies President Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard units, but critics of the plan argue that despite the increase, overall crossings are at historic lows.... Read more»
Posted Nov 21, 2017, 12:45 pm
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
Days after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed and another seriously wounded in Texas, details as to what happened to the agents, or even whether they were attacked, are still scarce. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 25, 2017, 5:37 pm
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
As Texans in the Rio Grande Valley prepare for Hurricane Harvey, the U.S. Border Patrol said its checkpoints north of the border will remain open.... Read more»
Posted Mar 31, 2017, 1:50 pm
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
As the Trump administration moves ahead with plans for a barrier on the Rio Grande, Texans are weighing in on how the president should approach the project. And the ideas range from the comical to the practical. ... Read more»
Posted Nov 30, 2016, 11:19 am
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
October was the deadliest month in Ciudad Juárez in nearly three years, with more than 100 people murdered just south of the Rio Grande. Locals are anxious — and hopeful they're not witnessing a resurgence of the brutal drug war that plagued this Mexican border city from 2008 to 2011. ... Read more»