Valerie Gonzalez

A Texas town may offer a preview of a Trump plan to force noncitizens from public housing

May 15, 2026 at 9:57 a.m.

Advocates estimate up to 80,000 people would be kicked out of their homes nationwide under a measure that is part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Former Uvalde school district police officer Adrian Gonzales, left, talks to his defense attorney Nico LaHood during a break on the 10th day of his trial at Nueces County Courthouse in Corpus Christi, Texas, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (Sam Owens/The San Antonio Express-News via AP, Pool)

Former officer acquitted at trial over police response to Uvalde, Texas, school shooting

January 21, 2026 at 7:54 p.m.

A former police officer was acquitted Wednesday evening of charges he failed in his duties to confront the gunman at an Uvalde, Texas, elementary school during the critical opening minutes...

FILE – Flowers are placed around a welcome sign outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, May 25, 2022, to honor the victims killed in a shooting at the school. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Uvalde schools officer did nothing until it was too late during shooting, prosecutor says

January 6, 2026 at 12:08 p.m.

A school police officer in Uvalde, Texas, stood by during one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history and made no attempt to distract or stop the gunman before...

FILE – Flowers and candles are placed around crosses to honor the victims killed in a school shooting, May 28, 2022, outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Jury selection begins in trial for ex-officer accused in police response to Uvalde school shooting

January 5, 2026 at 12:56 p.m.

A former school police officer in Uvalde, Texas, who was part of the slow law enforcement response to one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history went on trial Monday on...

Federal judge expands access to bond hearings for detained immigrants nationwide

November 27, 2025 at 7:40 a.m.

A federal judge has expanded a decision granting more detained immigrants the ability to request a bond hearing.

FILE – DACA supporter Claudia Valdivia wields a megaphone at a rally outside federal appeals court in New Orleans on Thursday, Oct. 10 ,2024. (AP Photo/Jack Brook, File)

DACA recipients are being arrested despite deportation protection

November 26, 2025 at 8:27 a.m.

Yaakub Vijandre was preparing to go to work as a mechanic when six vehicles appeared outside his Dallas-area home. Federal agents jumped out, one pointed a weapon at him, and...

FILE – People rally outside the Supreme Court in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), in Washington, Nov. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Federal government could resume taking DACA applications for permits to live and work in US

October 2, 2025 at 1:44 p.m.

The federal government is expected to again accept new applications for a program that grants some people without legal immigration status the ability to live and work in the United...

FILE – Young migrants hold hands as they run in the rain at an intake area after turning themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Roma, Texas, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

ICE is showing up to interview parents hoping to reunite with their children who entered US alone

September 2, 2025 at 8:30 a.m.

President Donald Trump’s administration has started requiring parents looking to reunite with their children who crossed into the U.S. alone to show up for interviews where immigration officers may question...

People board a plane in Harlingen, Texas Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025, as four charter buses are pulled into the side of the airport to unload dozens of passengers. (AP Photo/Valerie Gonzalez)

US judge bars government from sending Guatemalan children back, for now

August 31, 2025 at 3:08 p.m.

After the U.S. government loaded children onto planes overnight to be sent back to their native Guatemala, a federal judge temporarily blocked the flights — with the youngsters still inside...

FILE – Immigrants seeking asylum walk through the ICE South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, on Aug. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Judge to consider the fate of an agreement on protecting immigrant children in US custody

August 8, 2025 at 8:34 a.m.

A federal judge on Friday will hear a Trump administration request to end a nearly three-decade-old policy on ensuring safe conditions for immigrant children held in federal custody.

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