Some lawmakers had fretted that sending the preliminary, faulty list to the state’s top prosecutor would intimidate voters.
Immigration
In-depth reporting on border issues, policies, communities, and the impact of immigration across the state, from The Texas Tribune.
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Politics
Trump falsely said El Paso was a hub of violent crime before the border fence. Now he’s holding a rally there.
This will be the president’s seventh rally in Texas and his first in El Paso.
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Congress
In State of the Union speech, Trump continues hammering Congress over border wall funding
Raising warnings of out-of-control illegal immigration and soaring crime by immigrants — including debunked claims about El Paso’s crime — the president tried to pressure Congress to end a stalemate over border wall funding and avert another government shutdown.
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Texas Voting Rights
Another group of civil rights organizations sues Texas over voter citizenship review
The ACLU and others are asking a federal court to block counties from sending notices requiring certain voters to prove their citizenship.
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Texas Voting Rights
Naturalized citizens suing over Texas voter citizenship review, calling it conspiracy to single out foreign-born Texans
The plaintiffs allege the state’s move to flag tens of thousands of registered voters for citizenship reviews violates the U.S. Constitution and the federal Voting Rights Act.
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Texas Voting Rights
Naturalized citizen flagged in Texas voter citizenship review joins lawsuit against state
Atascosa County resident Julie Hilberg — a naturalized citizen whose registration was flagged by the state — is joining a lawsuit against top Texas officials.
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Texas Voting Rights
In advisory, Texas implies its list of thousands of voters flagged for citizenship reviews could include naturalized citizens
Those citizens are in addition to the people who were removed from the list earlier this week after the secretary of state’s office found they had been added by mistake.
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Immigration
Lawyer group says Trump policies have erected “invisible wall” to slow legal immigration
A national group of immigration lawyers studied federal data and found that legal immigrants are facing significantly longer wait times to process requests for visas, green cards and other documents.
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Texas Voting Rights
Texas quietly informs counties that some of the 95,000 voters flagged for citizenship review don’t belong on the list
County officials said the number mistakenly flagged is “significant.”
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Texas Voting Rights
Latino civil rights group sues over Texas voter citizenship review, calling it an “election-related ‘witch hunt'”
The lawsuit comes after at least one county has begun sending notices asking certain voters to prove that they are citizens.
