Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton agreed to a last-minute deal with prosecutors that allowed the dismissal of almost 9-year-old criminal charges on Tuesday. The 18-month intervention agreement was announced in a pretrial hearing that had been delayed from last week. The agreement includes 100 hours of community service and 15 hours of legal education classes […]
A 21-year-old Honduran is the first and only person so far to be charged with assault on a Texas National Guardsman during the stampede in El Paso last week. Federal authorities think that a few ringleaders orchestrated the uprising. Junior Evaristo-Benitez was taken into custody and charged with assault on a public servant, a 3rd […]
Mexico filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Thursday which argues that Texas SB 4 could lead to harassment, arrest, and expulsion of Mexican citizens. It could also do the same to those who simply look Latino. This is the narrative that progressives are taking in talking about SB 4. The immigration law allows Texas law enforcement […]
President Biden flew into Texas for two days of fundraising. He didn’t have time for a trip to the border, though. If he had gone to El Paso, as he did last year for a very brief trip where parts of the city were sanitized for him, he would have seen this scene on Thursday […]
No one seems to have been arrested under the new law during its brief time in effect. The hours were chaotic for law enforcement. Some law enforcement officers said there was no guidance from state authorities. A lawyer who trains the officials who would be in charge of deportations said he had to scramble to […]
Texas can finally begin to enforce its new state law against illegal immigration — but not after a head-spinning 24 hours. Late yesterday, CBS News reported that the Supreme Court allowed a stay on enforcement of SB4 to lapse. Within an hour, the court then reinstated its stay, only more broadly — a signal that […]
President Biden’s re-election campaign is putting on a look of confidence as staffers claim there is more than one path to victory. Allegedly, the campaign is expanding its focus on a couple of red states – Texas and Florida. Talk about big aspirations. Team Biden predicts a tough, close race. The campaign is targeting a […]
The Supreme Court indefinitely delayed a Texas immigration law on Monday that empowers state authorities to arrest and deport illegal immigrants. The Texas law, SB 4, was to go into effect if a deadline of 4:00 pm on Monday was not met. The court order was released after the deadline, leading to confusion over whether […]
Image: Galveston County Sheriff’s Office Border Security Response Team deputies apprehend illegal border crossers in Kinney County, Texas. Image Credit: Galveston County Sheriff’s Office By Bethany Blankley [The Center Square contributor] – Three years ago this April, a small border county took a stand to defend its few thousand residents after they were inundated by […]
The long and winding road to determine whether or not Texas has the right to secure its border continues. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito extended the ruling blocking Texas from enforcing a new law that gives law enforcement officers the ability to arrest and deport illegal aliens today. Justice Alito handles emergency petitions to the […]
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