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A month and a half ago, Miguel Ángel got off a bus in Los Angeles.He had been detained in an immigration center since January, after Border Patrol officers caught him and the four other people he was traveling with in the Sonoran Desert.When Miguel Ángel was released from the center in late April, he said he was moved around various cities in Arizona and Central California, before he was given a bus ticket for L.A.
"Getting here was a surprise.

Wednesday, June 14, 2023 by Chad Swiatecki
The Austin Chamber of Commerce has parted ways with Opportunity Austin, the job creation and economic development arm of the organization since 2004.The now-separate groups announced the split Tuesday while naming new leaders and explaining the move will allow each to focus on its core mission.

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas on Wednesday named John Scott, a longtime ally and a former Texas secretary of state, to serve as an interim replacement for the suspended attorney general, Ken Paxton, while Mr. Paxton faces trial in the State Senate.Mr. Paxton was impeached by the state House of Representatives on Saturday over charges that he had used his elected position to benefit himself and a campaign donor.

The state of Texas will place a 1,000-foot floating barrier in the middle of the Rio Grande to prevent migrants from entering the United States, Gov. Greg Abbott said on Thursday, the latest in a series of escalating maneuvers by state leaders to address illegal crossings.Mr. Abbott said the barrier, a floating border wall made up of four-foot-wide buoys, would be first placed in the water off the city of Eagle Pass, an already heavily fortified section of the border that Texas officials have said is a prime location for migrant crossings.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday signed into law a ban on gender-affirming care for most minors in the state, making Texas the largest state in the US to place restrictions on transgender youth's access to critical care.Senate Bill 14bars health care providers from providing gender transition surgeries, puberty blocking medication or hormone therapies to those under 18 in Texas, with violators at risk of losing their licenses.

Public education advocates say the move is racist, as white-majority districts with lower ratings are being left alone.A school bus is seen outside Condit Elementary School in Bellaire, outside Houston, Texas, on December 16, 2020.François Picard / AFP via Getty Images Texas state officials are planning to transfer control of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) from democratically elected leaders to a commission appointed by the Texas Education Agency (TEA).

Texas Republicans have approved a pair of bills targeting the elections process in Harris County, the state's largest and home to Houston, with voting rights activists accusing the GOP of plotting a power grab in an increasingly Democratic county.The measures, which passed the Republican-controlled state House and Senate, now head to the desk of GOP Gov. Greg Abbott.

Mayor Brandon Johnson spent his first full day in office Tuesdayvisiting Chicago government facilities housing migrants, including a Pilsen police station and Little Village park center where he decried Republican governors who continue busing asylum-seekers to the city."It's wicked.It's unconscionable.

Here are a few no-brainer responses to mass shootings in our beloved nation: 1.No one is permitted to buy a gun until age 21.What is the drinking age in this state?Twenty-one.I'd rather face a drunk with a gut full of booze than someone with a gun full of lead.2. Enforce red flag laws.Monitor gun shops for violations.

Julie Mabry, the owner of Houston's only lesbian bar, says her business is in jeopardy after the bar was denied insurance coverage.Mabry says the blame is due in part to an anti-drag show bill moving through the Texas Legislature.Google Maps The owner of Houston's sole lesbian bar says she was denied insurance coverage for her business because it hosts drag shows a denial she says is in part due to Texas' proposed anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.

HOUSTON Representative Colin Allred, a Dallas-area Democrat who defeated an incumbent Republican to gain his seat in 2018, announced on Wednesday that he would challenge Senator Ted Cruz of Texas next year.In a three-minute video, Mr. Allred, 40, a former civil rights lawyer who played as a linebacker in the N.F.L., presented himself as a bipartisan politician whose working-class upbringing would enable him to overcome the long odds: No Democrat has won statewide office in Texas since the 1990s.

When a man who was out on a date in Houston found out he had been duped out of $40 by someone pretending to be a parking attendant, he ran out of the restaurant, fatally shot the scammer and then nonchalantly returned, the authorities said.The man, Erick Aguirre, 29, was arrested on Tuesday in Aransas County, north of Corpus Christi, Texas, and charged with murder in the death of Elliot Nix, 46, on April 11.

The bill aims to force left-leaning prosecutors to prosecute abortions - or risk being replaced by an Abbott appointee.Texas state representatives bow their heads in prayer in the House chamber during an invocation at the start of the 87th Legislature's special session at the State Capitol on July 8, 2021, in Austin, Texas.Tamir Kalifa / Getty Images On Thursday, the Texas House advanced a bill that would allow elected prosecutors to be removed from office if they refuse to prosecute cases related to the state's near-total abortion ban or the right's voter suppression efforts - forcing officials either to prosecute health providers or risk removal.

You may have heard the phrase parents' rights.It sounds unobjectionable of course parents should have rights which is probably why it's become the term of choice for the conservative effort to ban books, censor school curriculums and suppress politically undesirable forms of knowledge.When House Republicans introduced a bill that would require public schools to notify parents that they are entitled to access course material and lists of books kept in school libraries, they cited parents' rights as the reason.

AUSTIN, Texas Austin police are working to crack down on illegal street racing after several incidents popped up across different parts of the city over the weekend.Hundreds of people gathered for meetups known as "takeovers" on city roads.Following the takeovers, one officer was hurt and two people were arrested.

AUSTIN, Texas Central Texas SNAP recipients will be able to apply for replacement benefits for food lost or destroyed during the recent winter storm and power outages, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) said on Wednesday.SNAP recipients will be able to apply for replacement food benefits by calling 211 and selecting option 2. Recipients in the following counties have until Feb. 28 to request a benefit replacement: Anderson, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Brazoria, Brooks, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Cameron, Cherokee, Coke, Collin, Comal, Concho, Coryell, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Erath, Falls, Fannin, Fort Bend, Franklin, Freestone, Gillespie, Harris, Hays, Henderson, Hidalgo, Hill, Hopkins, Hunt, Irion, Johnson, Kaufman, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Lamar, Lee, Leon, Limestone, Llano, Mason, McLennan, Milam, Montgomery, Navarro, Parker, Rains, Red River, Robertson, Rockwall, Smith, Sterling, Tarrant, Titus, Travis, Van Zandt, Waller, Wichita, Williamson and Wood.

AUSTIN, Texas A viral TikTok claims that professors in the University of Texas System can be jailed for saying the word "racism."But that isn't true.According to an article from KVUE's media partners at the Austin American-Statesman, the TikTok falsely claims that the UT System is attempting to ban professors from saying the word "racism."