AUSTIN - Texas' controversial plan to conduct background checks on refugees coming to the state for resettlement is legal because there is no federal law prohibiting the practice, Attorney General Ken ...

A threat to the stability of Texas refugee services appears to be averted, at least for now. Catholic Charities of Fort Worth, which oversees the distribution of federal funds to state refugee service ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the state will reject the resettlement of new refugees, becoming the first state known to do so under a recent Trump administration order. In a letter ...

In late February, Anthony Guanipa and his wife often found themselves driving around North Austin in their new Honda Civic with other recently arrived Venezuelan refugees in tow. None of them had been ...

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After a six-week federal funding freeze that decimated refugee services in Texas, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Monday released $47 million to the state’s refugee services ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Catholic Charities of Central Texas (CCCTX) is suspending its refugee resettlement program and laying off 30 employees across Central Texas due to federal funding cuts. CCCTX has ...

DALLAS, TX -- Texas on Wednesday sued the U.S. government in an effort to block six Syrian refugees from resettling in Dallas this week. The lawsuit comes after the nonprofit International Rescue ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is joining several other U.S. governors who are halting efforts to allow Syrian refugees into their states in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris.

Eight years ago, when a growing conflict in Syria forced millions of people from their homes, our synagogue called on our community to respond. That is how our very average family came to do something ...