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The coverage of migration at the border frequently skips over a very important point. The people who show up at the border want to work. And the United States needs workers. The federal reserve is crediting migration for boosting the economy and avoiding a recession.But what can the Biden administration do to take full advantage of the migration opportunity at the nation’s doorstep?
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Arrests for crossing the U.S. border illegally fell slightly in March, authorities said, bucking a usual spring increase amid increased immigration enforcement in Mexico. -
The U.S. Department of State-run program known as Welcome Corps allows U.S. citizens or permanent residents to sponsor a refugee or refugee family. Texas is one of the states leading the way in the number of application submissions. -
Just 70 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border is a land littered with the dead who feel short in their attempt to find a better life in the United States. Brooks County, Texas is a barren scrub brush desert that U.S. immigration policy takes advantage of to raise the death toll for migrants. And the numbers of fatalities keep rising. -
Excitement continues to build for the total solar eclipse on Monday. The path of totality will travel from Mexico, cross the border and enter the United States. In her commentary, TPR contributor Yvette Benavides compares that path to the trek of migrants in the shadow of the eclipse. -
More than 200 migrants are facing charges for being part of the crowd that knocked down a chain link fence at the border. The migrants then rushed past Texas National Guard soldiers to reach Border Patrol and turn themselves in to agents. -
Texas' immigration law has raised fear that it'll promote racial profiling by police. The concerns evoke memories of what happened after Arizona passed its so-called "show me your papers" law in 2010.
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Wednesday’s hearing before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals focused on whether SB 4, Texas’ controversial immigration-enforcement law, is constitutional and was the latest face off in the ongoing back and forth between the state of Texas and the Biden administration over the measure. -
Migrants can sue an air transport company that they say misled them when it flew them from Texas to Martha's Vineyard. A judge dismissed claims against Florida officials, including Gov. Ron DeSantis. -
The CBP One phone app, which most migrants use to begin the U.S. asylum process, isn’t accessible to those who are blind, deaf, have mobility issues, or have intellectual disabilities, according to a complaint. -
Maynor Suazo Sandoval left Honduras when he was 20 and built a new life in the U.S. He is one of the missing workers from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge.
