By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 The 2018 Miss Maverick County Junior Livestock Show Beauty Pageant was held on Sunday, January 21, 2018, at the Zan Mathies Showbarn at Maverick County Lake in Eagle Pass, Texas before an overflowing audience of over 800 persons, announced Olga…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 The 2018 Maverick County Junior Livestock Show and Sale will be held January 24-27th, 2018, at the Zan Mathies Showbarn at the Maverick County Lake in Eagle Pass, Texas with over 300 youth exhibitors, announced Tim Hardt, President of the…

By: Kristin Macleod-Ball, Immigration Impact In a sharp departure from the practice of immigration courts around the country, immigration judges in North Carolina are refusing to conduct bond hearings for detained immigrants who come before the Charlotte Immigration Court. This unlawful, alarming, and unconscionable practice deprives noncitizens of their basic…

By: Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Immigration Impact In a rare move, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently referred an immigration case to himself, invoking a federal statute that allows attorneys general to reconsider cases decided by the Board of Immigration Appeals, which hears appeals from immigration courts nationwide. Sessions referred the case to…

by Spencer S. Hsu and John Wagner, The Washington Post, The Texas Tribune Jan. 22, 2018 President Donald Trump’s election fraud commission asked every state for detailed voter registration data, but in Texas’ case it took an additional step: It asked to see Texas records that identify all voters with…

by Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune Jan. 22, 2018 The Dallas County Republican Party has sued to get over 120 Democratic candidates off the ballot in one of the state’s biggest Democratic strongholds. Republicans argued in a lawsuit filed Friday that the Democrats’ county chair, Carol Donovan, did not sign…

by Jolie McCullough, The Texas Tribune Jan. 22, 2018 On the heels of a federal ruling slamming Harris County for its bail practices, civil rights lawyers have now set their sights on a county with a similar system: Dallas. Six indigent misdemeanor and felony defendants arrested this week and held…

by Emma Platoff, The Texas Tribune Jan. 22, 2018 SAN ANTONIO — The criminal case against Democratic state Sen. Carlos Uresti, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Blackwell told jurors Monday morning, was “birthed in loss” — but it ended with both “loss and profit.” The prosecutor said the losses were suffered…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 Maverick County Sheriff Tom Schmerber reported that a 29 year old Eagle Pass man, Vince Ibarra,  sustained serious burn injuries to his body as a result of an automobile head-on accident with a tree that caused the automobile burst into…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2018 Our Lady of Refuge Catholic School announced that it is seeking candidates to apply for its School Principal position for the 2018-2019 school year. Candidates must have at least a Master of Education in Instructional Leadership and Administration degree, have…