The Immigration Debate at the Texas Legislature Has Devolved
In the latest showdown over immigration restrictions, Texas representatives got into a heated confrontation on the floor.
In the latest showdown over immigration restrictions, Texas representatives got into a heated confrontation on the floor.
Recent headlines find detained migrants stripped of English classes, recreation, and vital medicine.
In addition to deployment of Army troops, border nonprofits are seeing the beginnings of mass family releases.
Our favorite political reads of the week.
Texas will spend $800 million on border security over the next two years. Is the splurge worth it?
Step one: Let’s examine our own insecurities.
It’s not what you might think it is.
Open carry of licensed handguns and border security are the hostages in the tax-cut debates.
Drug cartel violence in Reynosa on Friday is not necessarily an argument for passing the Texas border security bill.
The pressure is mounting on Texas DPS Director Steve McCraw to quantify exactly what his officers are achieving on border security.
The Texas Department of Public Safety has faced questions about whether the border surge made the rest of the state less secure and whether it is taking credit for other law enforcement agencies actions, but now the DPS has announced a major border bust all of its own.
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw needs to come clean on just what his agency is doing on the border.
Border security was the battle cry of Texas politicians in 2014. Will the theme become “misplaced priorities” in 2016?
A couple of exchanges during debate in the Legislature this week are unlikely to find their way into etched stone.
Public Safety Director Steve McCraw has a history of seeing terrorists at the gate.
The debate over border security often is as much about political posturing as it is about policy.
Former Governor Rick Perry this morning told a gathering of conservatives that Middle Eastern dictators do not take President Obama seriously because he has not been willing to secure the Texas border.
In the bright new day of Governor Greg Abbott, Texas and her people are strong and getting stronger, but his State of the State address only polished the edges on some of the major challenges facing the state.
Some questions about Barack Obama's explanation for his executive action on immigration, announced last week.
Concerns over ISIS fighters crossing the border are more than misplaced
Ted Cruz is going all in against immigration reform. But would his win be our loss?
Already running gunboats on the Rio Grande, the Texas Department of Public Safety has now purchased a manned spy plane to police the border.
Despite rampant fears to the contrary, the bloody drug violence in Mexico hasn’t spilled over into Texas—but that doesn’t mean it’s not transforming life all along the border.
For many in this remote part of Texas, the crossing is convenient, but detractors fear the port entry could compromise security.
PERRY The Perry campaign issued a release attacking the veracity of Hutchison's ad on securing the border. The Perry release follows: Latest False Hutchison Ad Perfect “Match” For Dishonest Senator Media Already Labeling Ad A “Distortion” That “Clouds Some Of Her Record” And “Deviates From Facts” Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison