The state’s poorest mothers are paying hundreds of dollars out of pocket when they find baby formula because they say they can’t risk waiting for the exact brand and size container covered by Texas’ Women, Infant and Children program.
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
Cash is piling up in Kinney County from bonds posted to free migrants arrested under Texas border crackdown
Friends, families and attorneys have posted more than $2 million to get migrants out of prison. Defense attorneys say the rural county is erecting barriers that will keep many from recovering the money when they’re entitled to it.
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Operation Lone Star
Treasury Department opens investigation into Gov. Greg Abbott’s use of federal funds for border mission
Texas has been using coronavirus relief money to help pay for the multibillion-dollar deployment.
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Operation Lone Star
A minor trespassing case gives Gov. Greg Abbott’s border initiative its first courtroom win
The trial included four prosecutors, and so many potential jurors were summoned the town sandwich shop was shorthanded for lunch. But a Kinney County jury Monday convicted a Honduran national in the first jury trial for trespassing under Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star.
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Operation Lone Star
How federal pandemic aid helped Texas pay for Greg Abbott’s border mission
State officials freed up cash for Operation Lone Star with the help of federal funds meant to respond to the coronavirus crisis.
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Immigration
Si termina la protección legal al aborto en Estados Unidos, más texanos podrían ir a México en busca de medicamentos
Para muchos texanos, es común ir a México a comprar medicamentos baratos. La demanda por fármacos que inducen el aborto podría aumentar si la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos elimina la protección constitucional con la que actualmente cuenta el procedimiento.
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Texas Abortion Restrictions
With Roe v. Wade on the line, some Texans look south of the border for abortion drugs
Cheap regulated and unregulated medication is available over the counter at Mexican pharmacies, including abortion-inducing drugs that are strictly regulated in the U.S.
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Politics
Gov. Greg Abbott says federal government should cover cost of educating undocumented students in Texas public schools
Abbott expanded on comments he made about how he wants to “resurrect” the 1982 U.S. Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe, which guaranteed that public schools would educate all students regardless of citizenship status.
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Operation Lone Star
Texas National Guard guidance discouraging soldiers from saving drowning migrants draws scrutiny
Critics have said that a lack of guidance and equipment to perform life-saving rescues leaves soldiers dangerously unprepared to deal with a common scenario on the border while dehumanizing the migrants attempting to cross the river.
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The Texas Tribune-ProPublica Investigative Unit
Problems remain for We Build the Wall group after founder’s guilty plea
Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage faces more than five years in prison after pleading guilty to defrauding donors to the private wall effort.