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• No toothbrushes or showers, kids coughing all night: Migrants describe conditions inside border facilities

  28-06-2019 23:49 via tracking.feedpress.it
  Migrants secure tickets at the McAllen bus station.Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune
  MCALLEN — They don’t shower or brush their teeth for days on end. They watch their sick kids cough and cry through the night. And some of them brave toilets so foul, one migrant said, that kids can’t help but throw up inside of them.These are some of the descriptions provided during interviews this week with more than a dozen migrants held by U.S. border officials and then released to a C
  
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• Federal judge rules against Formosa Plastics in pollution case, calling company a "serial offender"

  28-06-2019 19:10 via tracking.feedpress.it
  Diane Wilson, a plaintiff in the case against Formosa Plastics, holds some plastic pellets she scooped out of Cox Creek, which is directly next to Formosa's plant in Point Comfort.Emree Weaver / The Texas TribuneFor a decade, Port Lavaca-area residents and environmental groups begged state and federal regulators to crack down on Formosa Plastics for what they alleged was the rampant and illegal discharge of plastic pellets and other pollutants into Lavaca Bay and other nearby waterways.This wee
  
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• Supreme Court to review DACA program protecting young undocumented immigrants

  28-06-2019 15:44 via tracking.feedpress.it
  Hundreds of people gathered in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016 to show their support for President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration.Lexey SwallThe Supreme Court announced Friday it will take up next term whether the Trump administration illegally tried to end the program that shields from deportation young undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.A string of lower courts have said that President Trump’s decision to terminate the Obama-era prog
  
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• June has been a deadly month for migrants crossing the border into Texas

  28-06-2019 15:12 via tracking.feedpress.it
  At the historic La Lomita Chapel in Mission, Rio Grande Valley residents held an early-morning vigil for migrants who drowned attempting to cross the Rio Grande on June 28, 2019.Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas TribuneAs the wrenching photo of a Salvadoran father and daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande continues to spark national debate about U.S. immigration policy, the death toll of migrants trying to illegally cross the border has been quietly rising in recent weeks.On Wednesday, U.S. Borde
  
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• Watch: A conversation with Cecile Richards

  28-06-2019 08:00 via tracking.feedpress.it
  Watch more video. We're sitting down for a talk with Cecile Richards, co-founder of Supermajority, a new women’s advocacy group, moderated by Texas Tribune Editor-in-Chief Emily Ramshaw.Richards, the former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, launched Supermajority with the aim of connecting and empowering progressive women and inspiring them to take action. She previously served as deputy chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, now speaker of the House, and is th
  
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• Census citizenship question ruling sets up legal path for Texans fighting the question

  28-06-2019 07:01 via tracking.feedpress.it
  Emily Albracht for The Texas TribuneThe U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to block, at least for now, the Trump administration’s plan to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census offered opponents of the question a temporary reprieve.But it also gave another legal challenge to the citizenship question — this one filed, in part, by Hispanic Texas lawmakers and several Texas-based nonprofits — some legal breathing room to move forward as a federal judge considers wheth
  
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• Analysis: Jonathan Stickland and Joe Straus, still sailing in opposite directions

  28-06-2019 07:01 via tracking.feedpress.it
  From left: State Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford, and former House Speaker Joe Straus. Stickland announced he's not running for reelection in 2020; Straus stepped down in 2018.Juan Figueroa: Stickland/Marjorie Kamys Cotera: StrausEditor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here.Political synchronicity: In the same week, Jonathan Stickland decides not to run for reelection and Joe Straus starts a political action committee. The first, a conserv
  
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