Tag: Texas

In this Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, photo, a new barrier is built along the Texas-Mexico border near downtown El Paso.

16-year-old migrant dies in federal custody

Zach Halaschak · May 1, 2019 10:11 pm

"I think what became clear this week is that [Ted Cruz] can't be president," Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, said Friday on "Morning Joe." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Joaquin Castro won’t seek Texas senate seat

Diana Stancy Correll · May 1, 2019 9:22 pm

In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, photo, a group of migrant families walk from the Rio Grande, the river separating the U.S. and Mexico in Texas, near McAllen, Texas. The migrants said they crossed the river in an inflatable raft and were hoping to be apprehended by the Border Patrol so they could be processed and released.

Border Patrol announces largest-ever group of migrants arrested: 424 people

Anna Giaritelli · April 30, 2019 11:37 pm

Austin, Texas - June 6, 2016: The Main Building (known colloquially as The Tower) is a structure at the center of the University of Texas at Austin campus.

Red Alert Politics

Pro-life campus speech evacuated after smoke bomb goes off

John Patrick · April 30, 2019 10:01 pm

Dan Patrick and Beto O'Rourke are shown.

Texas Lt. Gov.: Beto O’Rourke is ‘light in the loafers’

Diana Stancy Correll · April 30, 2019 5:04 pm

In this Feb. 7, 2019 photo, Secretary of State David Whitley, left, arrives for his confirmation hearing in Austin, Texas. Texas has settled a federal lawsuit over the state's bungled search for non-citizens among the state's 16 million registered voters. The agreement announced Friday, April 26, 2019 ends an effort by Texas elections officials that led to the state wrongly questioning the U.S. citizenship of tens of thousands of voters.

Texas settles lawsuit over accusing 95,000 non-citizens of voting

Anna Giaritelli · April 28, 2019 10:16 pm

Democratic presidential candidate and former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke speaks at a Service Employees International Union forum on labor issues, Saturday, April 27, 2019, in Las Vegas.

Beto O’Rourke describes illegal immigration as ‘modern-day bondage’

Joseph Simonson · April 27, 2019 9:07 pm

Joe Cardenas, 9, reaches for the rope used to pull the hand drawn ferry between the U.S. and Mexico border at Los Ebanos, Texas, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2007.

63 immigrant kids, parents rescued after attempting to cross violent river from Mexico into Texas

Anna Giaritelli · April 26, 2019 8:04 pm

In this June 19, 2008, file photo, in front of a new five-mile section of border fencing, Master Sgt. Ken Clemens, a member of the 200th Red Horse Air National Guard Civil Engineering Squadron from Camp Perry in Ohio, works on a new guardrail along a new road at the border in Nogales, Ariz.

National Security

DHS tells Army Corps to skirt land regs, begin $1B project to replace 53 miles of border fence

Anna Giaritelli · April 26, 2019 5:16 pm

Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina walks into the courtroom before being arraigned by Justice of the Peace Precinct 2 Jaime "Jerry" MuÃ±oz on charges of trying to rig his own 2017 election victory, Thursday, April 25, 2019, in Pharr, Texas.

Mayor of Texas border town charged in illegal voting scheme

Caitlin Yilek · April 25, 2019 9:30 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., answers questions during a presidential forum held by She The People on the Texas State University campus Wednesday, April 24, 2019, in Houston.

Bernie Sanders booed at presidential forum for women of color

Diana Stancy Correll · April 25, 2019 3:20 pm

Man guilty of one of the most infamous hate crimes in modern history executed in Texas

Zach Halaschak · April 25, 2019 3:01 am