A San Antonio-based panel of judges ordered the state’s maps should remain unchanged despite outstanding issues with House District 90, which the U.S. Supreme Court said was illegally drawn.
Alexa Ura
Alexa Ura reported for The Texas Tribune from 2013 to 2023. She covered the complex dynamics of race, ethnicity, wealth, poverty and power and how they are shaping the future of Texas and Texans, in the long and short term. Alexa started at the Tribune as a reporting intern before graduating from the University of Texas at Austin and joining the staff full time. Originally from Laredo on the Texas-Mexico border, she is a native Spanish speaker and is based in Austin.
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Texas Voting Rights
Texas won its redistricting fight at the Supreme Court. Now it hopes to use that win to wrap up its voter ID suit.
In light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling over the state’s political maps, Texas is now trying to eliminate the possibility of a return to federal oversight of its election laws as part of the case against the state’s voter ID law.
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Texas Voting Rights
U.S. Supreme Court rules Texas lawmakers did not intentionally discriminate in drawing political maps
The court also upheld 10 of 11 districts that had been flagged as problematic.
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Families Divided
No “zero tolerance” for migrant families released in McAllen
As confusion swirls about the president’s executive order to end family separations, undocumented immigrants with children continue to be apprehended in the Rio Grande Valley. But instead of being detained, some are being released from federal custody with ankle monitors.
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Families Divided
With charges dropped against some parents who crossed the border with families, is “zero tolerance” still in effect?
The Trump administration says there is still “zero tolerance” for anyone who crosses the border illegally. But the top federal prosecutor in one of Texas’ busiest border districts has dropped charges against immigrants who arrived with their families.
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Families Divided
Japanese-Americans imprisoned at Texas internment camp in 1940s watch border crisis unfold with heavy hearts
For Japanese-Americans who were held at a South Texas internment camp, the trauma inflicted on migrant children who have been separated from their parents is all too familiar.
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Demographics
Hispanic Texans on pace to become largest population group in state by 2022
Texas’ Hispanic population increased from 9.7 million in 2010 to 11.1 million last year, according to new census population estimates. Meanwhile, the state’s white population has increased by about 458,000 people.
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Texas Voting Rights
Appeals court temporarily blocks online voter registration for Texas drivers
A federal judge had set a 45-day deadline for Texas to implement its first system of online voter registration.
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Demographics
Texas Hispanic groups sue Trump administration over census citizenship question
Texas groups representing Latino residents are among those who are suing the Trump administration over the addition of a question about citizenship to the 2020 census questionnaire.
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Texas Senate revises anti-sexual harassment policy following allegations of misconduct
The revised Texas Senate policy mandates in-person anti-sexual harassment training for senators and significantly expands the chamber’s previous guidelines.
