Yesterday, Alianza Americas filed a class action complaint with several of the migrants who were flown from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard last week as part of a political stunt by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The lawsuit provides some new insight into how migrants were...
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back to archiveImmigrant Rights Group Calls for DOJ Intervention on Abbott Border Stunt
Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order on Thursday “authorizing and empowering” the National Guard Texas Department of Public Safety to apprehend migrants and return them to the border. The nonprofit immigrant rights group RAICES called the move an unlawful...
Abbott Blames Immigrant Babies for Formula Shortage
Much has been written in recent days about the present American baby formula shortage, the worst in decades. Now, Governor Greg Abbott is utilizing the crisis to attack those he believes to be responsible: immigrant babies. The shortage stems from a bacterial...
Congressional Lawmakers Want an Investigation into Operation Lone Star
Nine Congressional Texas Democrats penned a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen this week, urging the treasurer to investigate where the funding for Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star Star is coming from. Operation Lone Star is an immigration...
How Greg Abbott’s Unconstitutional Trucking Inspections Hurt Texans
In an interview with Tucker Carlson last Thursday, Gov. Greg Abbott laid out his strategy behind Texas’ recent controversial policy regarding trucking inspections. He acknowledged that by “implement[ing] what we call ‘enhanced safety inspections’ of every commercial...
Alejandro Iñárritu Utilizes Virtual Reality To Capture The Border Experience
A new art installation in North Texas uses virtual reality technology to provide a glimpse into the harrowing experience of migrants at the border. Using testimonials from actual Mexican and Central Americans who made the dangerous journey, this art experience at Fark...
Democrats in Texas are Demanding Answers for Operation Lone Star
As Greg Abbott continues to tout his record on securing the border, his signature project to achieve that goal, Operation Lone Star, is facing stark questions over the treatment of Texas troops. Abbott launched Operation Lone Star last March, as a response to the...
Senate confirms Biden’s CBP commissioner pick
On Tuesday, the Senate voted to confirm Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus as Customs and Border Protection Commissioner. The 50-47 vote largely fell along party lines, although Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) voted with Democrats. Magnus, a critic of Trump’s...
TCRP and ACLU file information request on Kinney County
On Thursday, non-profit organizations the Texas Civil Rights Project and the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas filed a Texas Public Information Act request to receive all communications between Kinney County officials and the Patriots for America militia...