
TX home construction market could be hit hard by deportations
| February 24, 2026
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A recent study showed the construction business in Texas could be affected if the Trump administration reaches its goal of net zero migration into the United States.

“I have been here too long”: Read letters from the children detained at ICE’s Dilley facility
by ProPublica
| February 11, 2026
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Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end in sight.

Federal lawsuits challenging immigration detention flood Texas
| December 9, 2025
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The wave of legal challenges is in response to the Trump administration’s intensified immigration enforcement and its new policy expanding mandatory detention for undocumented immigrants.



