A Texas Legislative Committee heard for the first time from the parents who demanded better flood warning systems, better training and equipment for camps near the river.
Leonardo Baez and his wife were among the first employers prosecuted for taking on undocumented immigrants at their bakery in Los Fresnos, Texas. They face up to 10 years in prison.
Texas’ attorney general, Ken Paxton, has now used his “election integrity unit” to indict 15 Latino Democrats under a 2021 statute that outlawed delivering ballots for other voters.
“Let me be crystal clear: the integrity of our elections is the bedrock of our democratic process, and any elected official trying to cheat the system will have to answer for it,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement.
The video, part of a trove of materials that authorities had refused to release, shows the minutes in which a commander tried to talk to a gunman barricaded in a room with dozens of children.
Immigrant aid organizations in Central Texas worry that, amid an immigration crackdown, undocumented victims of the deadly floods are not receiving assistance.
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