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Jenny Rodriguez, 26, right, and Rita Mendoza Chapa, left, are trying to sustain their family after Rodriguez’s partner and Mendoza Chapa’s son Henry Alvarado was deported to Honduras last month. Lawyers across the country and throughout Texas say immigration authorities are wrongly detaining or even deporting immigrants who should no […]

Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) accused President Obama on Friday of hurrying a federal judge in Texas for a more favorable ruling on his executive actions concerning immigration. “They’re trying to rush it through the system because they want the judge to change his mind and the president wants to — […]

After fleeing Central America, child migrants now face a very uneven brand of justice in U.S. immigration courts, where access to a lawyer and the location of the court itself are often the deciding variables in who stays and who doesn’t. A POLITICO analysis of government data shows that fully […]