Days after a tent city went up near El Paso, demonstrators near the facility took aim at the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from parents seeking asylum.
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Ted Cruz outlasts Jimmy Kimmel in grueling Blobfish Basketball Classic
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, defeated late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel in a one-on-one basketball game that tested the patience of both players and spectators. The final score was 11-9.
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Texas GOP convention finds unity on Trump, but intraparty tensions still flare
During this week’s state Republican Party convention, various speakers took turns praising President Donald Trump. But the bitter race for state party chair and a debate over censures illustrated divisions among Texas Republicans.
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Families Divided
Trump administration opens tent city near El Paso to house separated immigrant children
A center for unaccompanied immigrant minors is up and running in West Texas, just one day after federal officials announced the location, state Rep. César Blanco confirmed to The Texas Tribune on Friday.
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Vulnerable Texas Republicans in Congress take different approaches to immigration bills
Republican congressmen from Texas facing tough re-election fights are betting on very different strategies to win over key voters.
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Texas sent its first woman to Congress in 1966. Why has she been largely forgotten?
The late U.S. Rep. Lera Thomas can’t be found in the Texas State History Museum. And she’s missing from most Texas history textbooks. Her tenure was short — but not without action.
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Families Divided
Ryan opposes Trump policy of separating immigrant children from parents
Ryan said a draft of a compromise immigration bill that circulated on Capitol Hill late Thursday would end the practice of dividing families detained at the border.
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The Supreme Court struck down a Minnesota ban on political clothing in polling places. Texas has a similar law.
The high court’s ruling on a Minnesota state law is likely to reverberate in Texas, which has a similar law on the books. Neither state allows voters to wear political garments or accessories in their polling places.
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A third party trying to crash the Beto O’Rourke and Ted Cruz race is actually a for-profit corporation
Launched in March, the party bills itself as a movement aimed at toppling the two-party system controlling state politics, but it’s a for-profit company that got millions in start-up dollars from investors. Will its founder-turned-candidate get enough signatures to get on the ballot with Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke?
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U.S. House to vote next week on competing immigration bills
In a severe blow to moderates’ hopes of forcing action on an issue that has long bedeviled the GOP, a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers fell two signatures short of completing a petition that would set up debate on legislation to shield young undocumented immigrants from deportation.