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Obama to seek border aid; Pelosi visits Texas

 President Barack Obama will seek more than $2 billion to respond to the flood of immigrants illegally entering the U.S. through the Rio Grande Valley area of Texas and ask for new powers to deal with returning immigrant children apprehended while traveling without their parents, a White House official said Saturday. With Obama looking to […] Continue reading →

Mass immigrant graves uncovered in Texas cemetery

 Mass graves have been discovered in a South Texas cemetery, and researchers believe they contain the bodies of immigrants who died crossing into the U.S. illegally, according to published reports Saturday. The discovery at Sacred Heart Burial Park in Jim Hogg county officials said they pay the funeral home to handle bodies recovered in the […] Continue reading →

Sights, smells of holding cells for immigrant kids

 Children’s faces pressed against glass. Hundreds of young boys and girls covered with aluminum foil-like blankets next to chain link fences topped with barbed wire. The pungent odor that comes with keeping people in close quarters. These were the scenes Wednesday from tours of crowded Border Patrol stations in South Texas and Arizona, where thousands […] Continue reading →

Questions and answers about children at US border

 About 700 unaccompanied minors mostly from Central America were sleeping on plastic boards at a Border Patrol warehouse in Nogales, Arizona, this weekend, after they were arrested in South Texas and flown to the makeshift shelter. It is the latest illustration of how a wave of immigrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala has overwhelmed […] Continue reading →