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Hannah Gentiles/Marfa Public RadioA preliminary federal notice says the Department of Homeland Security is moving to waive a wide range of environmental regulations to speed up “barriers and roads” building in the Big Bend region of West Texas. The waivers would include a portion of Big Bend Ranch State Park. -
Patricia Lim/KUT NewsGovernment sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.
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Texas Department of Public Safety troopers arrived in riot gear in Dilley on Wednesday as protesters gathered outside the South Texas Family Residential Center to draw attention to the detention of a five-year-old boy from the Minneapolis area being held at the ICE facility. -
The Republican governor accused Democratic leaders in Minnesota of inciting violence. Democrats in Texas have condemned the shooting of demonstrator Alex Pretti. -
Three immigrants have died in two months at the largest detention camp in the country including a Cuban man whose death was ruled a homicide by the El Paso medical examiner. There are growing concerns about conditions at the tent facility and demands for more oversight. -
Cleaning up oilfield pollution in arid West Texas is costly and complicated. The bankruptcy process allows companies to move on while the public pays the price.
