Dawn Buckingham said a contractor hired by U.S. Customs and Border Protection trespassed and significantly altered land in Presidio County without permission.
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Immigration
For Texas DACA recipients, a fearful present and an uncertain future as protected status expires
Many of the roughly 80,000 Texas residents in the program are facing renewal delays that can leave them undocumented, unable to legally work and exposed to possible deportation.
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Economy
Texas businesses bracing for a financial hit from U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade limbo
Rising uncertainty has led businesses that depend on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) pact to pull back on investment in Texas, experts say.
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Congress
John Cornyn’s unmet demands imperil Trump’s U.S. attorney general nomination
Texas’ outgoing senator has insisted on written assurance that President Trump’s “anti-weaponization fund” is dead as a condition for voting to advance Todd Blanche’s nomination.
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Texas Legislature 2027
Dan Patrick directs Texas Senate to study ways to further ingrain religion into public life
The lieutenant governor released seven new charges for state senators to study before the Legislature reconvenes, including ways to “inform and remind Texans of their religious liberty rights.”
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Houston ICE Shooting
After the Houston ICE shooting, Sylvia Garcia demanded answers. Alex Mealer urges patience.
Mealer, the GOP nominee in Texas’ 9th Congressional District, would represent Houston’s Magnolia Park, where an ICE agent fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, under the GOP’s new redistricting map.
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2026 Texas Elections
Border residents wanted crossings reined in. Now Paxton and Talarico face voters wary of deportations
Residents along the U.S.-Mexico border said they want crossings under control and the state’s next senator to actually do something on immigration policy.
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Congress
Texas Republicans unite behind Iran war funding as U.S. House passes $95 billion spending package
With support from Democrats Vicente Gonzalez and Henry Cuellar, the House also passed a bill Wednesday that would ban members of Congress from trading stocks and implement new voter ID requirements.
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Politics
U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez takes steps to prevent renaming Boca Chica Beach
A SpaceX superfan proposed changing Boca Chica Beach’s name to reflect its significance to space travel.
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Houston ICE Shooting
ICE should continue traffic stops despite recent shootings, Trump says, seeming to oppose new suspension
The president’s social media post comes a day after federal sources said ICE suspended all traffic stops following fatal shootings in Houston and Maine.
