The Evening Brief: Texas Headlines for Aug. 15, 2012
Culled:
• Illegal Immigrants Line Up by Thousands for Deportation Deferrals (The New York Times): "Long lines of illegal immigrants hoping for the opportunity to stay in the United States without fear of being deported stretched for blocks in cities around the country on Wednesday as they sought to apply for a new federal initiative that allows young immigrants to defer deportation."
• Rubio in Houston calls Obama "a painful disaster" (Houston Chronicle): "Before an audience of Hispanic Republicans gathered in Houston, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio offered a preview of his remarks at the Republican National Convention, labeling President Barack Obama 'a ...

Comments (9)
Martin Woodward via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Marco Rubio is a grindingly negative, substance-free hack with no ideas. Why does anyone take him seriously?
Charles A. Siller via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Is he still claiming to be a refugee?
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Another idiot had spoken. STFU Rubio.
Greg Pulte via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Rubio thinks telling this lie long enough will make people believe it, everyone knows who the disaster was.
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
yep, Obama has been a painful disaster for millions of Americans....IN THE TOP 1%.
And Romney/Ryan/Rubio are a painful cluster-eff of disaster for THE OTHER 300 MILLION AMERICANS...in the lower 99%.
Sergio Hernandez De Santos via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Hispanics Republicans, is that a typo?
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Tio Tomas.
David Lee Schnepp via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Imagine - ' gUN CONTROL ' IN tEXAS . tHAT IS LIKE HAVING JUST ONE FLAVOR OF ICE CREAM - PLAIN , OLD VANILLA.
David Lee Schnepp via Texas Tribune on Facebook
opps. sorry.