“This disgraceful condition must end; and it can only end with action by Congress to reform the broken immigration system,” Abbott wrote in a letter to all members of the Texas delegation.
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Families Divided
Report: Youngest children separated from their families held in three “tender age” shelters in South Texas
More than 2,300 children have been separated from their parents under the Trump administration’s policy of “zero tolerance” for illegal border crossers.
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Families Divided
Texas House Speaker Joe Straus asks Trump to end policy of separating immigrant children
House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, wants President Donald Trump to end his administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that has led to thousands of immigrant children being separated from their parents at the border.
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Families Divided
Former first lady Laura Bush calls Trump’s zero tolerance policy “cruel”
“Our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso,” former first lady Laura Bush wrote in an op-ed in The Washington Post.
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Families Divided
‘They just took them?’ Frantic parents separated from their kids fill courts on the border
Federal courtrooms across the Southwest are being flooded with distraught mothers and fathers charged with misdemeanor illegal entry and separated from their children.
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Texas Elections 2018
Lupe Valdez sees Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as President Donald Trump’s “puppet”
In an interview Sunday, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee accused Abbott of “trying to find favor” with Trump, particularly on issues related to the border. “He’s just following in Trump’s footsteps,” she said.
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Texas Elections 2018
Texas candidate for border county judge allegedly calls local Democratic chairman and makes threat referencing “damn Zetas”
Rudy Bowles, a candidate in the Democratic runoff for Maverick County judge, is accused of leaving the county party chairman a voicemail in which he makes a demand and promises to call the “damn Zetas” if he does not get his way.
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Immigration
Attorney General Jeff Sessions vows to prosecute all illegal border crossers and separate children from their parents
“If you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you and that child will be separated from you as required by law,” U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a speech to law enforcement officials Monday. “If you don’t like that, then don’t smuggle children over our border.”
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Environment
Federal agents peered into a duffel bag on the Mexico border. They found a tiger cub.
The tiger was turned over Brownsville’s Gladys Porter Zoo. It was likely tranquilized to keep him still and quiet during the journey, according to senior veterinarian Tom deMaar.
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Politics
Migrant caravan prompts Trump administration to send more attorneys, judges to border
The caravan of Central Americans through Mexico to the U.S. border happens annually, but this year’s drew the attention of President Donald Trump and resulted in his call to send the National Guard to the border.
