Opponents of Senate Bill 4 have asked a federal appeals court to reconsider a decision that allowed most of the controversial immigration enforcement law to go into effect. The case could eventually end up before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Demographics
Explore population trends, diversity, and data shaping Texas communities, politics, and policy.
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In Texas, census citizenship question becomes a political fault line of its own
The state’s Republican leadership has stayed silent or cheered the decision to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census, even as local leaders who represent Democratic-leaning communities sound the alarm.
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Analysis: Adding a citizenship question to the census could screw over Texas
A census question on citizenship could undercount populations in states with large numbers of poor and/or Hispanic residents — states like Texas. And an undercount would cut into the state’s representation, and its federal services.
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Ahead of 2020 census, Texans are becoming even harder to count
Local officials, demographers and advocates are worried the census could be particularly tough to carry out in Texas in 2020. They are bracing for challenges both practical and political that could make the state, which is already hard to count, even tougher to enumerate.
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How Donald Trump’s border wall fared in the $1.3 trillion spending bill he just signed
“We funded the initial down payment of $1.6 billion,” Trump said of border wall funding Friday. “We’re going to be starting work – literally – on Monday on not only some new wall … but also fixing existing walls.”
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Abilene Christian University bans same-sex relationships for some student employees
After the decision, leaders of the West Texas university affiliated with Churches of Christ said their “first instinct is not exclusion but to love.”
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Census estimates show another year of rapid growth for Texas suburbs
New population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau underscore the extent to which the explosive growth of the state’s suburban areas relies on attracting residents from other areas of the state and country.
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Criminal Justice
After fourth bombing, Austin police believe they’re dealing with a “serial bomber”
Two more Austin residents were injured Sunday evening in an apparent bombing, local police confirmed Monday. This marks the latest in a series of explosions that has kept Texas’ capital city on edge.
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Exploding packages tap into simmering tensions over Austin’s racial segregation
The three package bombs that have exploded in the city this month, killing two people and injuring two others, share at least one other thing in common: They hit black and Latino families east of I-35.
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ACLU lawsuit alleges ICE field office in El Paso among those holding asylum seekers without cause
The plaintiffs in the case include a Haitian ethics teacher fleeing political persecution, a Honduran national who alleges persecution for being gay and asylum seekers from Mexico, El Salvador, Venezuela and Cuba.
