Texans aren’t mean-spirited, but you’d never know that with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in charge. Last week, the governor announced that Texas would no longer be accepting refugees fleeing violence in other countries. He effectively claims the state should not have...
On Thursday, Rep. Joaquin Castro of San Antonio called on White House advisor Stephen Miller to resign. "It’s clearer than ever that Stephen Miller is a far-right white nationalist with a racist and xenophobic worldview,” House Democrats, including Castro, said...
As the Supreme Court began hearing arguments on Tuesday over President Trump’s attempted termination of DACA– an Obama-era program protecting undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children from deportation– the president is promising a “deal” to allow the...
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments over President Trump’s attempt to end DACA, an Obama-era program that allows undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to stay in the country. Texas is home to at least 100,000 people who...
Come November, the deployment of 1,000 National Guard units in Texas is scheduled to come to an end. In fact, the deployment was scheduled to end in October, but the deadline for their departure was extended by several weeks at the request of Trump’s secretary...
When Donald Trump first said he was going to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it, there weren’t a whole lot of details. But in the past few years a number of designers, including the president himself, have decided to fill in the blanks. Here are five of the...
Amid the flurry of impeachment inquiry news on Wednesday, Sen. John Cornyn took a significant vote regarding the U.S. military. He voted to enable the Trump Administration to take critical funds from military projects in El Paso and San Antonio to fund a border wall....
One month after the Trump administration announced a new rule allowing immigration officials to indefinitely hold migrant families, a Texas facility capable of holding hundreds of migrant families is set to resume operation. The Karnes County Detention Center–...
The Trump administration is pulling $3.6 billion from military readiness and construction projects to fund a border wall. A total of 127 military projects will be impacted by the decision, with two construction projects in Texas – bases in El Paso and San Antonio –...