The first Hispanic sheriff in Harris County history on growing up as a child of legal immigrants, how his mom helped change his liberal views about illegal immigration and whether Houston is a sanctuary city.
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Adrian Garcia: The TT Interview
The first Hispanic sheriff in Harris County history in 2008 on growing up as a child of legal immigrants, how his mom helped change his liberal views about illegal immigration and whether Houston is a sanctuary city.
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TribBlog: National Guardsman Killed in Juárez
The Texas National Guard confirmed today that a man killed in Ciudad Juárez on Wednesday was a soldier and resident of El Paso.
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An Hour With Rick Perry
On Friday, Gov. Rick Perry sat down with me for an interview co-presented by the Tribune and Austin’s public broadcasting stations, KUT and KLRU. We talked about the controversy over the Emerging Technology Fund, the calendar he makes public and the one he doesn’t, how he’d cut the shortfall, which federal stimulus money he likes, whether Texas is a sanctuary state, the limits of abstinence education and more.
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An Hour With Bill White
On Friday, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White sat down with me for an interview co-presented by the Tribune and Austin’s public broadcasting stations, KUT and KLRU. We talked about whether the big bucks he’s raised from appointees qualifies as “government for sale,” how he’d cut the shortfall, how he feels about Barack Obama, the health care reform he’d prefer, those lawsuits against the feds and more.
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Where They Stand: The Governor’s Race
In the absence of a real debate between Gov. Rick Perry and his Democratic challenger, Bill White, Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune has created the next best thing: a mash-up of their answers to questions asked Friday by the Tribune’s Evan Smith during one-hour interviews of the candidates sponsored by the Trib, KUT and Austin public television station KLRU.
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2010: Rick Perry Interview Highlights
Watch highlights from Gov. Rick Perry’s interview with Evan Smith on Friday. In the clips, Perry discusses whether Texas is a sanctuary state, and the effectiveness of abstinence education.
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Calderón’s Goal
The president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, played a little soccer this week in Ciudad Juárez, but his real game was creating hope in a place where none exists.
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The Mayor of Mayhem
“The scourge of drug trafficking, kidnapping, extortion, robbery and violence has dismantled our economy, has eroded our tranquility and has stained our social structures with blood,” said Ciudad Juárez’s new mayor, Héctor “Teto” Murguía, at his inauguration Sunday. “This economic and social disaster deserves a desperate cry for help and solidarity.”
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ICE Under Fire
A year after Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it would reform immigration detention, advocacy groups say the agency has fallen short on a few key counts: addressing alleged human rights violations and expanding alternatives to incarceration.