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FT. WORTH, Texas – The Mineral Wells City Council today voted 5-2 against considering an ordinance that would prohibit providers from performing abortion care.
MCALLEN, Texas – The Office of Inspector General today issued a report instructing the Department of Homeland Security to immediately alleviate the dangerous overcrowding and prolonged detention of children and adults in immigration detention facilities in the Rio Grande Valley.
AUSTIN – Texas Governor Greg Abbott today signed House Bill 2048, a bill that ends the Driver Responsibility Program, which required Texans convicted of certain traffic offenses to pay an annual surcharge on top of court fines and criminal penalties to maintain their drivers' licenses.
HOUSTON – In letters sent today to the commissioners of 25 Texas counties, the ACLU of Texas urged the county leaders to not renew their expiring 287(g) agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
EL PASO, Texas – The Office of Inspector General today called on the Department of Homeland Security to address dangerous overcrowding at Border Patrol holding facilities at Paso del Norte Port of Entry.
LAREDO, Texas — The ACLU of Texas and the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP filed a legal claim against the federal government today on behalf of the family of Claudia Patricia Gómez González, a young Guatemalan woman killed by a Border Patrol agent in the U.S.-Mexico border town of Rio Bravo,