We’ll be liveblogging throughout the weekend from The Texas Tribune Festival’s race and immigration track — which includes panels on cartel violence in Mexico and the relationship between illegal immigration and criminal justice.
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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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Ramshaw, Root and Philpott track the governor on the campaign trail, Tan and Dehn on high school football concussions, and Murphy and yours truly on the partisan climates of each district under redistricting maps: The best of our content from Sept. 19 to 23.
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Demographics
Video: Texas Tribune Weighs in on The Caucus
Texas Tribune reporter Emily Ramshaw joins other national reporters in the New York Times video segment of “The Caucus” for a closer look at five moments from Thursday night’s GOP presidential debate in Orlando, Fla.
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Inside Intelligence
Inside Intelligence: The Trouble with Immigration
Immigration issues jumped into the center ring of the presidential race, so we took the opportunity to ask our insiders how that’s going to play for Gov. Rick Perry. The verdict? It depends.
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Demographics
Updated: Study: More Jobs in Texas Went to Immigrants Than Natives
Native-born Texans who were seeking employment likely lost out to competition from immigrants in recent years, according to a conservative think tank that advocates for less migration to the country.
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Demographics
Obama Immigration Policies Satisfy Neither Right Nor Left
President Obama faces a conundrum: On immigration he’s attacked from the left and the right, by disillusioned Latino critics and by conservatives who accuse him of failing to secure the country’s borders — even as he deports a record number of immigrants.
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Demographics
Texas Lawmaker’s E-Verify Bill Moves Out of Congressional Committee
Proposed legislation that would require employers across the country to use the electronic employment-verification program known as E-Verify passed out of a congressional House committee today.
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Demographics
Updated: Tea Party Presses Perry on Immigration
Tea Party activists staged a news conference Monday urging Gov. Rick Perry to take more stringent action against illegal immigration. They want the governor to enact a ban on so-called “sanctuary cities.”
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Demographics
Video: Tea Party Demands Perry Act on “Sanctuary Cities”
A group of Tea Party activists pushing for stricter immigration laws Monday asked Gov. Rick Perry to leave the presidential campaign trail and call the Legislature back into session to tackle a ban on so-called sanctuary cities.
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Criminal Justice
TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Aaronson on the rise in the state’s unemployment rate, Aguilar on the push to mandate use of an electronic employment verification program, Galbraith on fears about the drought’s impact on lake levels, Grissom on the latest in the Duane Buck case, Hamilton on the possible end of physics (academically speaking), Murphy updates our public employee pay app, Ramsey on David “Mitt” Dewhurst, Ramshaw on Rick Perry’s campaign swing through Virginia and Iowa, Root on the deletion of gubernatorial emails and M. Smith on the teaching of safe sex where you’d least expect it: The best of our best content from Sept. 12-16, 2011.