Illegal immigration has broken records in recent years, and while with those surges authorities have reported increases in border deaths, an agency reports that the actual number may be much higher.
A federal judge is preventing the U.S. government from ending the pandemic-era policy allowing border officials to expel illegal aliens on public health grounds.
In April, the federal government released 110,000 illegal aliens into the country on parole or via notices to appear.
The lieutenant governor made the comments in a speech supporting Sen. Dawn Buckingham’s campaign for land commissioner.
Attorneys general from 20 states wrote in a letter that the panel seems to exist only to infringe on “the exercise of constitutional rights.”
This week — Beto O’Rourke is down double digits in a new poll, a Hidalgo County judge invites the president to the border, and a lawmaker objects to an invite extended to Disney.
The court decided in 1982 that the U.S. Constitution requires Texas to provide education to the children of illegal aliens.
Border agents encountered about 38,000 unaccompanied minors in the first half of Fiscal Year 2022, which began in October.
The policy was instituted by the Trump administration and continued under Biden as a measure to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
The letter brings an end to the year-long fight between the federal and state government, viewed as an effort to force Medicaid expansion.
Paxton accused President Biden of deliberately seeking more illegal immigration and enabling cartels to “maximize their profits."
Krause is running for Tarrant County district attorney after dropping a campaign for attorney general last fall.
