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Supreme Court temporarily blocks Texas law that allows police to arrest migrants
The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily halted a new Texas law that allows police to arrest migrants who enter the country illegally.
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What to know as Republican governors consider sending more National Guard to the Texas border
As tensions grow between Texas officials and the federal government over who can enforce immigration policies and how, some Republican leaders are pledging their support to the Lone Star State.
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Supreme Court allows feds to cut razor wire installed on Texas-Mexico border
The U.S. Supreme Court will allow federal agents to cut razor wire installed on the Texas-Mexico border, while lawsuit continues.
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Texas' floating barrier between the US and Mexico can stay for now, court rules in reversal
A federal appeals court on Wednesday reversed an order requiring Texas to move a floating barrier on the Rio Grande.
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Biden administration asks Supreme Court to intervene in its dispute with Texas over borderland
The drowning deaths of three migrants have brought new urgency to an extraordinary showdown between the Biden administration and Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who has seized a city park in a major corridor for illegal crossings and denied entry to Border Patrol agents.
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Abbott responds after his comment about why migrants were not being shot draws outrage
Gov. Greg Abbott responds after backlash for a recent comment he made during an interview where he said the only thing the state wasn’t doing to secure the border was shooting migrants because they’d be charged with murder.
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Gov. Abbott on Eagle Pass park seizure, comment on shooting migrants
Gov. Greg Abbott, answering questions about a park in Eagle Pass and comments made about shooting migrants, says the state has the legal authority to control border crossings anywhere in the state and that’s what they’re doing in Eagle Pass. Asked about a comment he made during a radio show about shooting migrants, the governor said he was asked a...
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Texas DPS helicopter damaged, copilot injured in crash along border
A Department of Public Safety helicopter is damaged and a copilot is injured after a crash in South Texas on Thursday night.
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Border city mayor says Texas closed park without permission after crossings increased
The mayor of Eagle Pass, the border town at the center of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s aggressive measures to curb migrant crossings, says state troopers have closed a large public park along the Rio Grande.
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Texas begins flying migrants from US-Mexico border to Chicago, with 1st plane carrying 120 people
After Chicago took a tougher stance on buses bringing migrants into the city from the Texas border, Texas has begun flying them to Chicago.
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Groups sue over new Texas law that lets police arrest migrants who enter the US illegally
Civil rights organizations on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging a new Texas law that would allow police to arrest migrants who cross the border illegally and permit local judges to order them to leave the country.
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Gov. Abbott signs new border security bills, immigrant group vows lawsuit
Governor Abbott signed Senate Bill 4 Monday at an event along the border wall near Brownsville. He also signed a bill putting $1.5 billion more state tax dollars towards border efforts and a bill increasing the penalties for those caught human smuggling or operating a stash house.
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Gov. Greg Abbott signs Senate Bill 4 into law
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a far-reaching border security bill Monday. NBC 5 political reporter Phil Prazan reports on the last step for one of the most controversial bills in this last special session.
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Gov. Abbott signs bill that lets police arrest migrants who enter the US illegally
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday signed into law sweeping new powers that allow police to arrest migrants who cross the border illegally and give local judges authority to order them to leave the country.
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Court orders Texas to move Rio Grande floating buoy barrier that drew backlash from Mexico
Texas must move a floating barrier on the Rio Grande a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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After sending busloads of migrants to NY, Gov. Greg Abbott visits NYC to fault Biden for crisis
For more than a year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been busing migrants from the southern U.S. border to places like New York, Washington and Chicago, prompting angry complaints from Democratic officials in those cities.
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Appeals court lets Texas keep migrant buoys at least 3 more weeks, sets Oct. 5 hearing
A federal appeals court on Wednesday set an Oct. 5 hearing on Texas’s migrant-blocking buoys, ensuring the controversial Rio Grande barrier remains in place for at least three more weeks.
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Illinois will provide burial for migrant toddler who died on bus
Illinois will provide for Thursday’s funeral and burial for the migrant toddler who died last week on a bus headed to Chicago from Texas, officials said.
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DOJ files injunction in Texas buoy case, asks judge to order them removed
The DOJ filed a preliminary injunction Wednesday in their case against Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and the state of Texas over buoys installed in the Rio Grande.
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Feds file lawsuit against Texas over floating barriers in the Rio Grande
Monday morning, Governor Greg Abbott responded with a letter to President Joe Biden defending the state’s actions, writing “Texas will see you in court, Mr. President.”