State Reps. Giovanni Capriglione, R-Southlake, and Sarah Davis, R-West University Place, want the Texas Ethics Commission to keep track of which lobbyists have disclosed ties to foreign governments.
Edgar Walters
Edgar Walters worked at the Tribune from 2013 to 2020, most recently covering health and human services. Before that, he had a political reporting fellowship with the Berliner Zeitung, a daily newspaper in Berlin. He is a graduate of the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked as an editor for The Daily Texan. When not in the newsroom or at the Capitol, he could be found on the volleyball court, standing 6 feet, 7 inches tall.
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In Harvey's Wake
No place back home: A year after Harvey, Rockport can’t house all its displaced residents
After sustaining a direct hit from the hurricane, this beach town lost roughly 20 percent of its population. Local officials hope they can convince the displaced to return home despite the risks of coastal life in the era of climate change.
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Families Divided
Thousands of children still live in Texas shelters after end of “zero tolerance”
Even after the Trump administration said it would reunify families separated under the now-paused “zero tolerance” immigration policy, new data shows the number of children held in privately run shelters in Texas is still high.
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Families Divided
The number of immigrant children held in Texas is up, despite reunifications
Private shelter operators want to open as many as four new facilities to accommodate the continued influx of children.
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Families Divided
Number of children in Texas shelters continues to grow after end of “zero tolerance”
Even after the Trump administration said it would reunify families separated under the now-paused “zero tolerance” policy, new data shows the number of children held in privately run shelters in Texas has continued to grow.
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Guides
Can separated immigrant children just walk out of shelters? Technically, yes.
The shelters are designed to keep kids in, but they’re not detention facilities, and in most cases staff can’t forcibly stop a child from leaving.
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State Government
Thanks to a healthy economy, Texas comptroller bumps revenue estimate by $2.8 billion
State officials welcomed the news with cautious optimism.
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Families Divided
How Trump’s zero-tolerance policy pushed Texas shelters to capacity
The Trump administration’s now-paused “zero tolerance” policy has placed a significant strain on Texas’ shelters for unaccompanied children, creating an influx of more than 1,600 children that has pushed the facilities close to capacity, state data shows.
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Families Divided
Everything we know about Texas-regulated facilities holding migrant children: violations, numbers and more
Many of the thousands of children separated from their parents at the southern border under a Trump administration “zero-tolerance” policy will end up in a Texas facility with a long history health and safety deficiencies.
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Families Divided
For families who have already been separated, policy change doesn’t guarantee reunification
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order he says will “keep the families together” when they’re apprehended illegally crossing the border. But that does little for families who have already been split apart.
