Written by Katie Shepherd, Immigration Impact Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) claims that a significant expansion of immigration detention is required to meet “operational needs” in light of the agency’s shifting policies and ramped up immigration enforcement under the Trump administration. However, a new report released in January from immigrants’…

Written by Hilda Bonilla, Immigration Impact In a rare move, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently referred an immigration case to himself, utilizing a regulation that gives attorney generals the power to reconsider cases previously decided by the Board of Immigration Appeals. But Sessions’ hostile anti-immigrant public statements, made over the…

By Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune Feb. 23, 2018 EL PASO — A primary challenge isn’t anything new for state Rep. Mary González. The Democrat from Clint beat out two others for an open seat in 2012, then four years later fended off a former, longtime state representative vying for…

Friday, February 23, 2018, 1:45 AM: Eagle Pass Police Officers conducted a traffic stop on a white 2011 Camaro pursuant to a traffic violation within the 300 block of North Bibb Street. Officers spoke to the driver of the vehicle who was identified as 21 year old Orlando Cardenas of…

By Aliyya Swaby, The Texas Tribune Feb. 26, 2018 *Clarification appended When Katharine Margiotta and her family go out to eat, she has to read restaurant menus to her 13-year-old son, who struggles to write letters of the alphabet and guesses most words in his reading assignments. Any teacher should…

By Robert Barnes, The Washington Post Feb. 26, 2018 The Supreme Court on Monday declined to enter the national controversy over “dreamers,” turning down the Trump administration’s request to immediately review lower court decisions that keep in place the program that protects undocumented immigrants brought here as children from deportation….

By: Trimmel Gomes, Public News Service – FL TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — While teachers and students in Florida debate the state government on gun control, it seems educators may be more involved with the manufacturing of the weapons than many expect. The Florida Retirement System Pension Plan holds $528,000 in stock…

By Jolie McCullough, The Texas Tribune Feb. 26, 2018 The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Texas case Monday that questioned the constitutionality of the state’s execution process. The lawsuit dated back to 2013, when multiple death row inmates sued the Texas prison system claiming its lethal injection protocol is unconstitutional…

By: Mark Richardson, Public News Service – TX AUSTIN, Texas – A new report claims state education officials are favoring politics over facts in teaching Texas history. A Texas Freedom Network Education Fund study charges the Republican-controlled State Board of Education has altered significant parts of history texts, distorting passages…

(Press Release) In San Antonio, TX, on Thursday, February 22, 2018, a federal jury convicted San Antonio attorney and District 19 Texas State Senator Carlos I. Uresti and his business partner, Gary L. Cain, on all charges for their roles in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of millions of…