World & Nation
Thousands of Central American refugees stranded in south Texas were given the right--at least temporarily--to travel to other parts of the United States by a judge’s ruling today.
Jan. 9, 1989
A federal judge on Monday overrode local authorities and ordered the reopening of a refugee processing center that was padlocked last week as a health and fire hazard.
Feb. 14, 1989
Politics
Rep. Solomon Ortiz got a courthouse named for a judge, whose son paid for the visit to Asia.
Nov. 2, 2005
Entertainment & Arts
U.S.
Feb. 20, 1985
A 98-year-old woman who moved to the United States in 1927 on Friday became the first person to gain citizenship under the amnesty program allowing aliens to legalize their status.
April 9, 1988
A jury was selected in Houston to hear the trial of two Sanctuary Movement members accused of transporting illegal Salvadoran refugees into the United States.
Feb. 19, 1985
A federal judge today ruled that the Immigration and Naturalization Service can reinstate a policy that confines refugees to South Texas while their applications for political asylum are considered.
Feb. 17, 1989
Autos
With settlement still a possibility, the first tire-defect lawsuit against Bridgestone/Firestone to go to trial was set to begin today in a South Texas courtroom.
Aug. 13, 2001
A judge Wednesday extended for three weeks the period in which Central American asylum-seekers can leave South Texas, where an immigration policy was blamed for trapping hundreds in desperate conditions.
Jan. 12, 1989
Central American refugees were given a 20-day stay Tuesday to apply for political asylum without fear of being trapped in the Rio Grande Valley, and the federal judge presiding over the case strongly chastised immigration authorities for allowing illegal aliens to live in abject squalor while their fates are being determined.
Feb. 1, 1989