Austin, TX -- “A 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has been detained by federal immigration authorities in Texas after she passed through a Border Patrol checkpoint on her way to a hospital to undergo emergency gallbladder surgery.”
Austin, TX -- Across the county and in Texas, establishment Republicans have announced they can no longer serve as elected officials for the Republican Party.
Austin, TX -- “During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week, Sessions failed to answer whether he had colluded with Texas officials in their pursuit to sue the feds if they did not rescind DACA...The answer remains up in the air; Sessions didn’t take a single question from the press or public.”
Austin, TX -- Right now, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is in Texas to discuss President Donald Trump’s disastrous immigration priorities. [Austin American-Statesman, October 20, 2017]
Sessions drew rebukes from his former Senate colleagues when he consistently refused to answer simple questions. When asked about his role with the Texas Attorney General in ending DACA, the Obama-era program that protected hundreds of thousands of young people, Sessions was quick to call those conversations privileged.
Austin, TX -- The Trump Administration is monitoring our Texas Democratic elected officials and launching a propaganda campaign, all on the taxpayer dime.
Trump is selling junk insurance policies and sabotaging healthcare. Under Trump’s scheme young, healthy people will get meaningless stripped-down coverage for their hard-earned dollars, while premiums skyrocket for those most-at-risk Americans left in the exchanges. It's economically inept and cruel.
Austin, TX -- In Lubbock, “a 19-year-old student fatally shot a Texas Tech University police officer Monday night after police brought him in for questioning… The student pulled a gun and shot the officer, then fled on foot, according to a university alert sent to the campus community….”
Austin, TX -- On Sunday, with no press briefing and oddly citing his own Cabinet’s support, Donald Trump released a list of 70 immigration priorities. [New York Times, October 8, 2017]
Austin, TX -- “State officials are broadening their investigation of Attorney General Ken Paxton by looking into his $500,000 legal defense fund, a special prosecutor said Wednesday.” [Houston Chronicle, October 5, 2017]