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EL PASO — Today, the ACLU Border Rights Center, the ACLU of Texas and Quadrant 2, Inc, announced the launch of MigraCam, a smartphone application designed to help people living in over-policed communities send video evidence of enforcement actions to their family members via email and text.
HOUSTON — The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, the national ACLU and Arnold & Porter filed a federal class-action lawsuit today against Galveston County, Texas, for violating the constitutional rights of people arrested for misdemeanors and felonies.
EL PASO — President Trump today announced his intention to deploy U.S. military to the U.S.– Mexico Border until a wall is built. The comment was made during a luncheon with leaders of the Baltic States and then repeated at a press conference afterward.
HOUSTON — Today a coalition of LGBTQ rights groups announced the launch of TxTransKids.org. The online hub will serve as a formal support network for K-12 transgender students and their families looking for resources about how to get what they need in school.
HOUSTON — Last week, an as-yet unnamed deputy of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office shot and killed Danny Ray Thomas, a 34-year-old unarmed Black man, in North Houston.
Greyhound buses, once a symbol of travel on America’s vast highways, have become rolling traps where U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents routinely board to unlawfully interrogate, detain and arrest passengers.