Tag: immigration
Houston City Council member proposes giving police more discretion over ICE intervention | Houston Public Media
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Houston City Council Member Letitia Plummer has drafted a proposal that would allow police officers to decide whether or not to call Immigration...
Houston mayor defends HPD coordination with ICE after pushback from council member | Houston Public Media
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Mayor John Whitmire defended the Houston Police Department's coordination with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the city council...
Ken Paxton sues Harris County over its immigrant legal defense fund | Houston Public Media
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on Monday against Harris County after its commissioners recently drew backlash for renewing...
Gov. Greg Abbott launches reelection campaign for fourth term
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DHS asked Texas to hand over driver’s license data for citizenship checks
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DHS Wants a Fleet of AI-Powered Surveillance Trucks
The US Department of Homeland Security is seeking to develop a new mobile surveillance platform that fuses artificial intelligence, radar, high-powered cameras, and wireless...
Effort to eliminate Houston-based immigrant rights group can continue after appeals court ruling | Houston Public Media
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Texas’ Fifteenth Court of Appeals cleared the way for Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to snuff out a Houston-based immigrants’ rights...
Meet a 62-year-old Washington state farmworker who chose self-deportation to Mexico after raising 4 children and 10 grandchildren in the U.S. | Fortune
Ramón Rodriguez Vazquez was a farmworker for 16 years in southeast Washington state, where he and his wife of 40 years raised four children...
Judge orders the immediate release of El Paso DACA recipient
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White House scrambles to clarify H-1B visa confusion after panic throws corporate America into chaos overnight | Fortune
President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee for H-1B visas sowed mass confusion and panic among top U.S. companies overnight, forcing the White House to clarify...
