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Texas bused nearly 120,000 migrants from the border to New York, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Chicago starting in 2022 in an effort to draw attention to the massive problems at ...
Abbott's order cites a disaster proclamation he issued on May 31, 2021, due to the surge of illegal border crossers in Texas who "posed and the ongoing and imminent threat of disaster for a number ...
Long-simmering tensions within the Texas GOP are spilling out into the open amid a heated battle for the state House Speaker seat. The fight underscores long-standing friction between the rump of ...
High speed chases of migrants led by US citizens and Texas state police have risen in Texas, dozens of which are fatal [96] Human Rights Watch found that more than two-thirds of police chases in Texas occurred in OLS counties, which contained 13% of the state population. According to HRW, 74 people have died and 189 were injured as a result of ...
The judicial system of Texas has a reputation as one of the most complex in the United States, [10] with many layers and many overlapping jurisdictions. [11] Texas has two courts of last resort: the Texas Supreme Court, which hears civil cases, and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Except in the case of some municipal benches, partisan ...
The 2023 Texas elections are held. Voters approve 13 out of 14 amendments in the constitutional amendment election. [29] A special election is held to fill the vacancy in Texas's 2nd House of Representatives district, [2] which will be followed by a runoff on January 30, 2024. [3] The 4th special session of the 88th Texas Legislature convenes. [4]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration and Texas state government are surging personnel to the U.S.-Mexico border to prepare for a possible increase in illegal immigration when COVID-19 ...
In their book, Texas Politics Today 2009-2010, authors Maxwell, Crain, and Santos attribute Texas' traditionally low voter turnout among whites to these influences. [4] But beginning in the early 20th century, voter turnout was dramatically reduced by the state legislature's disenfranchisement of most blacks, and many poor whites and Latinos.