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14 Feb 2023, 8:31 am by Irene
Texas had to take charge to combat the smuggling of people and drugs, the governor’s office wrote in the 2021 press release announcing Operation Lone Star, which integrates DPS with the Texas National Guard and deploys air, ground, marine and tactical border security assets to high threat areas to prevent Mexican cartels and other criminal elements from smuggling drugs and humans into the state. [read post]
9 Jul 2014, 12:39 pm by Michael Lowe
Today, President Obama is in Dallas where he will meet with Texas Governor Rick Perry regarding the current Texas border crisis, but odds remain high that the president will not travel to the Texas – Mexico border to see firsthand the crisis situation, where thousands and thousands of people from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, as well as Mexico and other countries (like China, for example) are pushing our state and local resources to the breaking point. [read post]
21 Aug 2012, 8:39 pm by Susan I. Nelson
KVUE by MARK WIGGINS / KVUE News and photojournalist ERIN COKER AUSTIN -- Governor Rick Perry says President Barack Obama's new immigration policy will not change anything in Texas. [read post]
9 Jun 2006, 3:13 am
[JURIST] Texas Governor Rick Perry [official website] has said that he plans to create a virtual border watch program [press release], installing night-vision cameras along the Mexican border and streaming live video on the Internet to aid in the state's effort to crack down on illegal immigration [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
15 Aug 2007, 12:22 am
Earlier this year, the Texas legislature passed and the governor signed the Religious Viewpoint Anti-Discrimination Act that requires schools to establish "a limited public forum for student speakers at all school events at which a student is to publicly speak". [read post]
19 Jan 2007, 3:14 pm
AP reports that hours after Texas Governor Rick Perry kicked off his second full term in office, Ted Nugent, a rocker popular in the 1970s perhaps best known for his signature (and to some anti-woman) song Stranglehold (click here to... [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 7:32 am
Texas executed Curtis Moore last night in Huntsville. [read post]
In the filing to the New York Supreme Court, Adams’ administration accuses Texas of violating New York Social Services Law as part of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s plan to expel migrants who cross the US-Mexico border illegally. [read post]
SUPREME COURT NEWS Texas Governor Appoints Lehrmann as Justice to the Supreme Court of Texas[text of press release from Gov's office follows below] May 28, 2010AUSTIN – Gov. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 7:31 am
Senator John Whitmire, Chair of the Committee and Dean of the Senate, called the meeting following Governor Perry's shakeup of the Texas Forensic Science Commission. [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 5:55 am by Joseph Nunn
As Operation Lone Star — the border security initiative launched by Texas Governor Greg Abbott — approaches its third anniversary, tensions between the federal government and the state of Texas have reached a fever pitch. [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 8:49 am by Alexis Wheeler
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick [official website] and others in support of the bill have explained that their preference is to keep potential sexual predators [BI... [read post]
22 May 2019, 6:10 am
Significant changes to the Texas Citizens Participation Act, or TCPA, are on the horizon. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 2:32 pm
Well, maybe the Lone Star State didn't get too far with its internet hunting efforts a few years ago......but one Texas lawmaker is now taking a cue from Alaska's Governor Palin and proposing to allow regular folks with shotguns and rifles to shoot wild pigs out of helicopters.Read more about this story - that would be funny if it weren't true - in this AP/USA Today article. [read post]
8 Jul 2013, 5:16 am by Joseph Lazzarotti
On June 14, 2013, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed S.B. 1610 amending Texas' data breach notification law to remove language limiting the application of the data breach notification requirement to Texas residents and residents of states that do not require notification, permit, for residents of states other than Texas that require notification of a breach, notice to be provided to such individuals… [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 8:09 am by William K. Berenson
Craddick believes that Governor Greg Abbott wants to see all cities in Texas enforcing a unified law and may not veto the law this time. [read post]