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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Maria Sacchetti |Arelis R. Hernández |Douglas MacMillan
The Trump administration is reopening a sprawling detention center in South Texas for migrant families facing deportation, resuming the practice of detaining children four years after the Biden administration ended it, according to the private prison contractor that runs the facility.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Maria Sacchetti |Arelis R. Hernández |Doug MacMillan
The Trump administration is reopening a sprawling detention center in South Texas for migrant families facing deportation, resuming the practice of detaining children four years after the Biden administration ended it, according to the private prison contractor that runs the facility.
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2 months ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Teo Armus |Arelis R. Hernández
The Trump administration on Tuesday cut off funding to legal service providers who give advice and legal representation to children who crossed the border without their parents, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post. The memo, issued by a division of the Interior Department, ordered the Acacia Center for Justice — a nonprofit through which the program is funded — to “stop all work” associated with its contract for legal services for unaccompanied minors, effective immediately.
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2 months ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Arelis R. Hernández |Silvia Foster-Frau
SAN ANTONIO — Federal border authorities have deputized Texas National Guard soldiers to arrest and detain immigrants in an unprecedented move thathas renewed concerns about how the Trump administration will carry out its mass deportation plan.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
washingtonpost.com | Arelis R. Hernández |Anumita Kaur |Reshma Kirpalani
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — The parishioners crowded inside the office of a Catholic church in South Texas waiting to take a photo for what may be their first and only identification in the United States. Volunteers shifted through personal documents — birth certificates from foreign lands, household water bills from this one — and entered their names and addresses. Men smoothed out their hat hair and women rearranged their blouses.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Arelis R. Hernández
Democracy Dies in DarknessCriselda Leal Peña sets up a canopy to campaign for Donald Trump and local Republicans running for office on Election Day in Edinburg, Texas. (Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)By Arelis R. HernándezNovember 8, 2024 at 4:10 p.m. ESTSAN ANTONIO — The signs of a political shift in the reliably blue counties that line Texas’s southern border with Mexico had been coming.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Arelis R. Hernández
The Orasma family is from San Fernando de Apure, a lush metropolis on the banks of a winding river in Venezuela. For many years, Ingrid and her children enjoyed a solidly middle-class life. She worked as a teacher at a primary school, dyed her hair platinum blond and manicured her nails. Her school often had leftover cafeteria food that she would donate to poor families. Snapshots of Ingrid Orasma’s life in Venezuela. In one, she walks with her two youngest children, Marvin and Diego.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Arelis R. Hernández
Extreme WeatherWeatherClimateCapital Weather GangEnvironmentClimate LabHurricanesExtreme WeatherWeatherClimateCapital Weather GangEnvironmentClimate LabHurricanesPriced out of Miami, scores of Latinos have settled in the Fort Myers area. But back-to-back storms are proving costly. 9 minElena Gonzalez, right, can't hold back tears as she speaks with her neighbor Dorita Machin next to her burned-out home after Hurricane Milton struck the Fort Myers, Fla., area.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Arelis R. Hernández |Justin Jouvenal |Azi Paybarah |Sarah Kaplan |Jiselle Lee
Residents look at burned-out homes Friday at the Beachaven Villas in Sarasota, Fla., after Hurricane Milton’s landfall. (Eva Marie Uzcategui for The Washington Post) By Arelis R. Hernández, Justin Jouvenal, Azi Paybarah, Sarah Kaplan and Jiselle LeeOctober 11, 2024 at 7:55 p.m. EDTSIESTA KEY, Fla.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Arelis R. Hernández
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, at the National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md., on Feb. 23, 2024. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)By Arelis R. HernándezSeptember 4, 2024 at 6:28 p.m. EDTSAN ANTONIO — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Wednesday against one the state’s largest urban counties to stop lawmakers there from using taxpayer dollars to mail thousands of voter registration applications to its unregistered residents.
