The Texas Military Department has received a $2.3 million boost from the federal government to help with the state’s border-security efforts.
Demographics
Explore population trends, diversity, and data shaping Texas communities, politics, and policy.
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Dreamers grateful efforts to repeal in-state tuition benefit never materialized
Efforts to strip undocumented students in Texas of their in-state college tuition benefit failed to pass during the latest legislative session.
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Lock the Vote
Voting rights battle in Pasadena could have Texas-wide legal ramifications
The outcome of a voting rights fight over Pasadena Hispanics’ right to choose their city council members could reverberate beyond the city limits of this Houston suburb.
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Criminal Justice
Everything you need to know about Texas’ “sanctuary cities” law
Here’s everything you need to know about Senate Bill 4, a controversial immigration enforcement measure banning “sanctuary cities” across Texas.
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Demographics
Ted Cruz gets an earful in McAllen for July 4
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, visited the Democratic stronghold of McAllen for the Fourth of July — and received an earful from protesters at one event.
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Texas leads 10 states in urging Trump to end Obama-era immigration program
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and officials from nine other states on Thursday urged the Trump administration to end a program that’s allowed hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to work in the country without fear of being deported.
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Attorneys argue over proper venue for sanctuary city lawsuit
For the second time this week, the Texas attorney general’s office sparred in federal court with opponents of the state’s new immigration-enforcement law, Senate Bill 4. Both sides got an earful from federal Judge Sam Sparks.
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Criminal Justice
City of El Paso joins plaintiffs in suit against Texas immigration law
The border city of El Paso on Tuesday voted to add its name to the list of local governments that have joined a lawsuit to stop Texas’ immigration bill, Senate Bill 4, from going into effect.
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Criminal Justice
Attorneys spar over Texas immigration law in federal court
Monday was the first day of what could be a lengthy legal battle over Senate Bill 4, which has been billed as the toughest state-based immigration bill in the country.
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U.S. Supreme Court tosses cross-border shooting case back to lower court
The nation’s high court on Monday sent a case involving the cross-border shooting death of a Mexican teenager back to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. At issue is whether the teen’s family can sue the U.S. border patrol agent who killed him.
