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One day along the Texas-Mexico border shows that realities shift more rapidly than rhetoric
As midnight nears, the lights of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, fill the sky on the silent banks of the Rio Grande. A few months ago, hundreds of asylum-seeking families, including crying toddlers, waited for an opening to crawl through razor wire from Juarez into El Paso. ...
Tren de Aragua gang started in Venezuela's prisons and now spreads fear in the US
MIAMI (AP) — Former federal agent Wes Tabor says his phone has been lighting up with calls from police departments around the U.S. for advice on how to combat the growing threat from the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Tabor was in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement...
Trump's goal of mass deportations fell short. But he has new plans for a second term
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Donald Trump has long pledged to deport millions of people, but he's bringing more specifics to his current bid for the White House: invoking wartime powers, relying on like-minded governors and using the military. Trump’s record as president shows a vast gulf...
Texas lawmakers show bipartisan support to try to stop a man's execution
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers petitioned Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday to stop the scheduled execution next month of a man convicted of killing his 2-year-old daughter in 2002, arguing the case was built on faulty...
Florida hospitals ask immigrants about their legal status. Texas will try it next
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — For three days, the staff of an Orlando medical clinic encouraged a woman with abdominal pain who called the triage line to go to the hospital. She resisted, scared of a 2023 Florida law that required hospitals to ask whether a patient was in the U.S. with legal permission. ...
Data indicates voting by noncitizens is rare. Republicans are pressing measures to make sure of it
Only U.S. citizens are eligible to vote in this fall's election for president and other top offices. While that's nothing new, the potential for noncitizens to register or vote has been receiving a lot of attention lately. Citing an influx of immigrants in recent years at the...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Bexar County over voter registration outreach effort
Bexar County officials moved forward Tuesday with a plan to mail county residents voter registration forms, defying Attorney General Ken Paxton ’s threat to use “all available legal means” to quash the effort. Paxton followed through Wednesday morning, filing a lawsuit in a...
Judge shields second border aid group from deeper questioning in Texas investigation
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge on Thursday shielded another migrant aid group from deeper questioning as part of a growing Republican-led investigation into organizations that help immigrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border. District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble ruled the aid...
Texas must build hundreds of thousands of homes to lower housing costs, says state comptroller
If Texas wants to rein in its high housing costs, it needs more homes, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar’s office said Tuesday — the latest sign that the state’s high home prices and rents have become a growing concern for the state’s top officials. Homebuilding in Texas didn’t...
Texas chief who called Uvalde response 'abject failure' but defended his state police is retiring
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas' state police chief who came under scrutiny over the hesitant response to the Robb Elementary school shooting in 2022 and has overseen Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's aggressive efforts to stop migrant crossings on the U.S.-Mexico border said Friday he will retire at the...
