Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske laid out the case against legalizing marijuana and other drugs today at a border security conference.
Demographics
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Alone Together
Gov. Rick Perry and his Democratic challenger, Bill White, appeared on the same stage in Austin on Thursday. But anyone itching for a debate between the two was disappointed. The candidates were separated on the schedule by other speakers and were never even in the room at the same time. Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune filed this report.
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Criminal Justice
TribBlog: No “Terror Baby” Records
State Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Houston, says “former FBI officials” are the sources of her information about a terror baby plot. When the Tribune asked her office for records of any such conversations, her chief of staff said they don’t exist.
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TribBlog: Ambassador to Mexico Talks Border Security, Trade
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual kicked off the 2010 Border Security Conference in El Paso with a recap of the violence to date, and his explanation of why the border will survive.
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HuTube: FBI Talks “Terror Babies”
State Rep. Debbie Riddle’s terror baby claims of earlier this week were called “absurd” last night by a former FBI official, who said “there was never a credible report, or any report for that matter … to indicate that there was such a plan.”
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TribBlog: How Many U.S. “Anchor” Babies?
Of the 4.3 million babies born in the U.S. in 2008, 340,000 — about 8 percent — had parents who were undocumented immigrants, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center.
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TribBlog: Anchia vs. Riddle on “Terrorist Babies”
Tuesday night on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, state Reps. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, and Debbie Riddle, R-Houston, debated the perilous issue del día: anchor babies. According to Riddle, women would give birth to terrorist babies in the U.S. who can then destroy America once they come of age.
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TribBlog: Border Residents Feel Safe, Poll Finds
A large majority of the residents of Texas cities on the U.S.-Mexico border feel relatively safe despite harsh rhetoric from lawmakers and a consistent media portrayal of their communities as war zones, according to a poll released today.
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Perry to Obama: Send More Border Troops
As President Barack Obama delivered his speech on higher education and economics, Governor Rick Perry gave his own remarks on what he thinks needs to be done for Texas border security. KUT’s Erika Aguilar reports.
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Obamarama
In his first trip to the Texas capital as president, Barack Obama served up little news but plenty of red meat for supporters. Check out our pool report from his fundraiser and our audio, video and slideshow of his UT-Austin speech.