The county will spend up to $2.6 million on overtime for deputies to patrol seven high crime neighborhoods in unincorporated areas for 120 days.
Amidst the ongoing coronavirus lockdown, border apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border have reached a low not seen in three years.
After a Travis County district court tried to block Governor Abbott's order stopping the release of violent suspects, the Texas Supreme Court issued a stay.
The signing of a "safe third country" agreement with Guatemala is the latest efforts to reduce the number of asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.
In the wake of lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's new asylum rule, a federal judge in D.C. upheld the policy. Hours later, a federal judge in California blocked it.
Multiple civil rights groups filed a lawsuit in response to the Trump administration's new asylum rule, despite growing concerns over illegal immigration.
Over 30 percent of rural Texans are without high-speed broadband internet access in their homes and government-led approaches are dominating the debate.
