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U.S. Immigration Policy Is to Blame for the Horrific Mass Death in San Antonio

Federal and Texas immigration policy should take the blame for the 50 immigrants who were found dead in a sweltering hot truck.

Texas Observer · Jul 5, 2022

How the end of Roe and the Uvalde school shooting could reshape the race for Texas governor

A history-making spring in Texas is laying the groundwork for a contentious final four months in the race to lead the state, where Republican incumbent Greg Abbott remains the favorite but is confronting his toughest Democratic opponent yet in Beto O’Rourke.

The Texas Tribune · Jul 5, 2022

Parmy Olson: Mass surveillance in schools won’t solve mass shootings

Administrators at Oak Hill High School in Fayette County, West Virginia, are attuned to potential violence. If a student scrawls a threat on the bathroom wall about shooting someone, which happens in schools on occasion, staff will set up a mobile unit of metal detectors in the school’s yellow-brick entranceway.…

Tribune News Service · Jul 5, 2022

Texas schools must check all exterior doors before school year starts

Texas districts must inspect every exterior door of each campus before the start of the next school year.

Tribune News Service · Jun 30, 2022

A “cloned” 18-wheeler made it easy for smugglers to pass through the border, say state officials vowing to crack down

A federal agency estimates that about 75 trucks are reported nationally each year with copied or stolen state and federal ID numbers, which industry experts say is likely a significant undercount.

The Texas Tribune · Jun 30, 2022

'Prevention Through Deterrence' Is How You Get 53 Dead Migrants in the Back of a Truck

The men, women, and children found dead in a tractor-trailer this week were just the latest casualties of an immigration approach that encourages dangerous journeys.

Reason · Jun 30, 2022

Arrested driver pictured smiling as he transported doomed migrant truck across the border

Homero Zamorano was reportedly arrested after he fled the trailer and was found hiding in a bush and initially pretended to be one of the survivors

The Independent UK · Jun 30, 2022

Editorial: On this July 4th, can US reconcile its immigrant roots with its anti-immigrant politics?

Within hours of the news that more than 50 migrants had died in the back of a tractor-trailer near San Antonio on Monday, the men, women and children having been baked alive in the blistering Texas heat, anti-immigrant Republicans quickly descended into blaming President Joe Biden. Not because he had…

Tribune News Service · Jun 30, 2022

San Antonio sheriff rips into Gov Abbott for turning migrant trailer tragedy into ‘one big campaign stunt’

‘I have watched as Governor Abbott painted this humanitarian crisis as some sort of enemy invasion’

The Independent UK · Jun 30, 2022

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott orders truck inspections at border after migrant deaths

AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday ordered state police to resume inspecting trucks entering Texas from Mexico after 53 migrants died in a tractor-trailer abandoned near San Antonio.

Tribune News Service · Jun 29, 2022