The high court’s decision lowers the burden of proof for states locked in similar water battles with upstream neighbors.
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Families Divided
Feds pledge in court to provide more information to parents suing over separation from their kids
A U.S. Department of Justice lawyer promised in a D.C. federal court Wednesday to provide three Central American parents who are suing the federal government with information about and regular contact with their kids.
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TribCast
Crisis on the border, 5-year anniversary of the Wendy Davis filibuster and the latest UT/Texas Tribune poll
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Jay, Neena, Edgar and Ross about inconsistent efforts to reunify immigrant parents and kids on the border, how Texas voters feel about separating families in the name of immigration enforcement, and the legacy of the Wendy Davis filibuster.
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State Government
Potentially expanding his executive power, Gov. Greg Abbott orders agency heads to run proposed rules by him first
Texas has traditionally had a weak governor’s office. But Abbott’s request could give him more say in how agencies operate.
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TribCast
Family separations, political horse races, guns, weed and the NFL, from the UT/TT pollsters
In this special edition of the TribCast, Texas Tribune Executive Editor Ross Ramsey sits down with University of Texas at Austin pollsters Daron Shaw, Jim Henson and Josh Blank to talk about the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Politics
Texas’ U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn likely to play big roles in picking Justice Anthony Kennedy’s replacement
The state’s two U.S. senators are likely to play pivotal roles in what is expected to be a politically explosive confirmation process.
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Immigration
A viral Facebook fundraiser has generated more than $20 million for immigration nonprofit RAICES
Over the last week and a half, a Facebook fundraising page has generated more than $20 million for RAICES — three times the nonprofit’s annual budget and more than 40 times what it raised in all of 2017.
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Politics
U.S. House rejects immigration bill that included pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, border wall funding
As expected, Republicans were unable to reconcile differences within their party to move a major immigration bill through the U.S. House chamber Wednesday.
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Families Divided
“We live in fear”: Honduran family seeking asylum left stranded on a bridge
In a video from the border, immigrant Walter Vindel describes how he left Honduras with his wife and children to escape gangs that killed their relatives — and is praying for safe harbor into the U.S. “We are not bad people,” he says.
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Families Divided
Port Isabel detention center, where immigrants will be sent before reuniting with children, has long history of problems
Federal officials initially said the former naval base would be the main reunification center for separated families, then changed their wording and said children won’t go there “even for short periods.”
