Denizens of Zophos

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday sued Texas over floating barriers installed by the state in the Rio Grande river to block migrants crossing from Mexico. Texas authorities began installing the string of buoys in the middle of the river near Eagle Pass, Texas, last week, part of Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott's initiative dubbed Operation Lone Star to deter migrants. "We allege that Texas has flouted federal law by installing a barrier in the Rio Grande without obtaining the required federal authorization,"...

Multiple media outlets reported this week that the federal government remains unable to find the parents of more than 500 children.

The Trump administration has been using major hotel chains to detain children and families taken into custody at the border, creating a largely unregulated shadow system of detention and swift expulsions without the safeguards that are intended to protect the most vulnerable migrants.

Families caught in the Trump administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols faced hard choices. One man shares his story of defeat

About two-thirds of the 1,000-plus parents separated from their kids under a 2017 pilot program were deported before a federal judge ordered that they be found.