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Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller calls on Gov. Greg Abbott to end ‘catastrophic’ border inspections

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller pressed the governor on Tuesday to end a new inspection policy that is snarling traffic at the border and “turning a crisis into a catastrophe.”

Tribune News Service

Texas Gov. Abbott doubles down on new inspection rule for truckers at border

The order has resulted in extremely long wait times and the shutdown of at least one border crossing.

Axios

Blockade at Mexican border risks $35 billion in shipments

Mexican truckers blockaded a key Texas border crossing for a second day to protest Governor Greg Abbott’s stepped-up vehicle inspections, raising the specter of delivery disruptions for everything from avocados to auto parts.

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Annual Inflation Hits 8.5 Percent, Highest Rate Since 1981

Plus: China's unsustainable COVID lockdowns, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's performative anti-immigration antics snarl supply chains, and more...

Reason

Child welfare workers protest bigotry

Agency "losing so many tenured staff and wisdom because this job is just not manageable anymore," a supervisor said

Salon

Cynthia M. Allen: Abbott’s border ‘publicity stunt’ is no solution, but that does not mean it won’t have effect

FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott cannot reasonably be accused of always playing to his party’s lowest common denominator.

Tribune News Service

Anger mounts along Texas-Mexico border over long delays to commercial crossings

Mexican truck drivers blockaded two busy bridges at the border with United States on Monday amid rising tensions on both sides over an order by Texas Governor Greg Abbott that has slowed commercial crossings between Mexico and Texas.

Reuters

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Texas Gov. Abbott warns sheriffs of ‘cataclysmic’ wave of migrant crossings at the border

EL PASO, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned border sheriffs here Monday that they will face a “cataclysmic” number of migrants coming across the border beginning next month as he underscored his desire for a border wall and explained the use of charter buses to transport people who cross…

Tribune News Service

GOP lawmaker says even death penalty supporters see ‘major problem’ in Melissa Lucio case

Texas State Reps Jeff Leach and Joe Moody were part of a bipartisan group of lawmakers who visited Melissa Lucio on death row last week as they call for her life to be spared

The Independent UK

Nun who wrote ‘Dead Man Walking’ joins calls to save Melissa Lucio from execution

Melissa Lucio is scheduled to be executed on 27 April over the death of her two-year-old daughter which her attorneys insist was ‘a tragedy, not a murder’

The Independent UK

Beto O’Rourke touts education, jobs and health care in run for Texas governor

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas — With the uproar over last year’s winter storm in a holding pattern, Democratic nominee for governor Beto O’Rourke is trying to sell Texas voters on bread-and-butter issues that he hopes will compel them to fire incumbent Greg Abbott.

Tribune News Service

Melissa Lucio ‘a symbol of wrongful convictions,’ documentary director says as execution approaches

Director Sabrina Van Tassel tells Josh Marcus about award-winning Melissa Lucio documentary and impact of Kim Kardashian’s activism on case

The Independent UK

Los Angeles County bans official travel to Florida and Texas over anti-LGBT+ policies

‘This order is discriminatory, harmful and just plain cruel,’ wrote the authors of the Los Angeles County motion in response to the Texas order

The Independent UK

Greg Abbott Has Used Migrants as Political Pawns Again and Again. Now, He Says He'll Bus Them to Capitol Hill.

Given his track record, it isn’t surprising that Abbott would opt for a blusterous anti-migrant spectacle that comes at the expense of Texas taxpayers.

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The Independent UK

Texas lawmakers visit woman on death row with hugs, prayers

Seven Texas lawmakers who traveled hundreds of miles to update death row inmate Melissa Lucio on their efforts to stop her execution were able to connect with her through embrace and prayer

Salon

Abbott's border stunt blows up

Rep. Dan Crenshaw went a step further, suggesting that migrants be sent to Kamala Harris' house

Roll Call

At the Races: Historic confirmation, then recess - Roll Call

The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.

The Independent UK

Abbott plan to bus migrants to DC condemned as ‘gimmick’ by Texas Republican as it emerges scheme would be voluntary

Governor’s bussing and chartered flight program will be entirely voluntary, according to officials

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The Independent UK

Melissa Lucio: Texas lawmakers meet and pray with woman on death row, pledging to help save her life

‘We’re more resolute and committed than ever to fighting over the next three weeks to save her life’ says Rep Jeff Leach

The Guardian - US

Texas governor’s plans to bus migrants to Capitol met with bipartisan criticism

Republican Greg Abbott’s botched new policy is in response to Biden’s decision to rescind hardline Trump-era immigration policy

Texas Observer

Will Governor Greg Abbott Stop Melissa Lucio’s Execution?

Supporters of the 53-year-old Latina mother hope for a last-minute reprieve.

Evening Standard

Kim Kardashian ‘heartbroken’ by death sentence given to US mother Melissa Lucio

Kim Kardashian said she is "heartbroken" by written pleas from the children of a US mother who faces the death penalty in Texas.

Tribune News Service

Gov. Greg Abbott orders Texas to inspect vehicles at border, charter buses to ship migrants to DC

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas will begin busing migrants to the steps of the U.S. Capitol and inspecting vehicles driven in from Mexico, Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Wednesday in what he called an “unprecedented” response to illegal immigration.

The Independent UK

Greg Abbott says Texas will use charter buses to ship ‘illegal immigrants’ to Washington DC

Texas governor wants to ship ‘hordes’ of migrants to DC

The Independent UK

Texas lawmakers to meet with woman facing execution

A group of bipartisan Texas lawmakers is planning to visit a death row inmate whose execution they are trying to stop amid doubt about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter

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