In Texas, suburban counties lead in population growth as they continue to receive residents from other areas while urban counties are more dependent on international migrants and expanding families, new census figures show.
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Explore population trends, diversity, and data shaping Texas communities, politics, and policy.
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Texas poised to maintain most of its border funding for Trump’s first years
Despite the Trump administration’s early moves to ramp up detentions and deportations and build a border wall, Texas budget writers don’t appear likely to significantly dial back funding for state-based border security operations this year.
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Report: Travis County released dozens of undocumented inmates wanted by feds
Travis County officials declined dozens of requests from federal immigration agents to hold inmates in the days leading up to the county’s recent showdown with Gov. Greg Abbott over its new “sanctuary” policy.
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Analysis: State boosts local accountability while eroding local control
At about the same time this week, one set of Texas lawmakers was working on ways to limit the growth of property taxes that fund local governments while another was considering legislation that could cost local governments a lot of money.
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House committee makes changes to anti-“sanctuary” bill
More than 600 people signed up on Wednesday to testify before the House State Affairs Committee on the lower chamber’s version of the controversial proposal to outlaw “sanctuary” jurisdictions.
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Watch as Texas House committee debates anti-“sanctuary” bill
The Texas House State Affairs Committee is set to debate a bill that would gut funding from local and state entities that don’t enforce immigration laws.
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Paxton asks to intervene in Dallas County immigration case
The Texas attorney general’s office has asked a federal court for permission to intervene in a case about whether a county jail can hold undocumented immigrants for transfer to federal custody and subsequent deportation.
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To fight anti-“sanctuary” bill, Democrats may highlight “sanctuary industries”
Outnumbered and with time running out, Texas Democrats hoping to kill anti-“sanctuary” legislation are open to shining a spotlight on so-called “sanctuary industries” that often turn a blind eye toward hiring unauthorized labor.
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Recent raids drive immigrant families to passport scramble
Fearing deportation, immigrant families are crowding passport lines across the state as undocumented parents seek U.S. passports for their American children.
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Still no timeline for withdrawal of state troopers on border, Texas DPS chief says
The director of the Texas Department of Public Safety told lawmakers on Tuesday the agency can’t predict when it will be able to scale back its border security operations in the Rio Grande Valley.
