Police officers and judges in Texas will not be able to arrest, detain and deport immigrants who have crossed the southern border into Texas without authorization. A district judge has blocked key provisions of SB 4, the law that granted them these powers and which will not take effect this Friday as planned. It is expected that the decision will be appealed to a higher court.
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From a Union Pacific train, a migrant woman texted a relative on Saturday. The railway car she was in felt very hot, she wrote. That day, the temperature in San Antonio, Texas, where the train was traveling, reached nearly 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius). Authorities estimate that the heat index inside the shipping containers could have reached as high as 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 degrees Celsius). San Antonio police were alerted to the woman’s text messages, but they were unable to locate the train.
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José Contreras Díaz, a beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, was released Thursday from the Port Isabel Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in South Texas. The 30-year-old Honduran had been separated from his family for more than three months: ICE detained and deported him earlier this year. After appeals from his lawyers, he was returned to the United States on April 29 with parole, but the agency immediately detained him again upon his arrival at Harlingen Airport.
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Juan Espinoza spent nearly eight years rebuilding his life in the United States. When he arrived in Austin, he knew he had left behind in Caracas his position as manager, which he had held for 20 years, and that now he would have to take any job that would allow him to support his family. That job was driving trucks. In February 2020, he legally obtained his commercial driver’s license in Texas.
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