By: Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Immigration Impact Following through on a directive from President Trump made during his first week in office, the State Department on Monday invoked a rarely-used law to impose visa restrictions on Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea, and Sierra Leone, declaring each country “recalcitrant” for refusing to accept the return…

By: Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Immigration Impact In a unanimous decision, the Ninth Circuit upheld a lower court’s decision on Friday in Hawaii v. Trump, allowing extended family members as well as certain refugees to enter the United States. In doing so, the court rejected the Trump administration’s interpretation of the Supreme…

by Aliyya Swaby, The Texas Tribune Sept. 15, 2017 In more than 40 years of working in El Paso ISD’s cafeterias, Olimpia Estrada has seen the amount of wasted food drop dramatically as officials have established programs allowing the redistribution of leftover food. But they still have a long way…

by Jim Malewitz, The Texas Tribune Sept. 18, 2017 State Rep. Victoria Neave agrees that everyday Texans shouldn’t have to pass around a figurative hat to help rape victims get justice; footing the costly bill to test sexual assault kits should be the job of government, she says. But since…

by Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune Sept. 18, 2017 After the Texas Supreme Court ruled that the landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage does not fully address the right to marriage benefits, the city of Houston is now looking to the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in. In a petition filed…

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017 The City of Eagle Pass, Texas, Maverick County, and the Maverick County Public Environmental and Public Health Associati0n’s Appellate Oral Arguments in the Texas Commission of Enrvironment Quality (TCEQ) Renewal and Expansion Water Discharge Permit to Dos Republicas Coal Partnership…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The mighty Eagle Pass High School Eagles clawed their cross-town rival Eagle Pass C.C. Winn High School Mavericks 34-7 in the 12th Annual City Football Championship series on Friday, September 15, 2017, extending their undefeated streak to 12 consecutive years over…

by Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune Sept. 15, 2017 If anything changes in Texas politics in 2018, it’ll likely be the work of voters — not mapmakers. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to stick with the state’s current political maps will preserve, for now, the Republican advantages that are baked…

By: Mark Richardson, Public News Service – TX AUSTIN, Texas — A U.S. Supreme Court decision has put a temporary hold on two lower-court rulings ordering Texas to draw new Congressional districts by the 2018 elections. In a 5-4 decision, the court stayed rulings that found that the Texas Legislature…

By: Mike Clifford, Public News Service – MA BOSTON – Eleven travelers whose laptops and mobile devices were searched at the U.S. border are suing the Department of Homeland Security in a case filed in federal court in Boston on Wednesday. At issue is border agents’ practice of searching devices…