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An undocumented 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy was taken into US Customs and Border Protection custody shortly after emergency gallbladder surgery in Texas in a case advocates said shows the harmful extent of the president's hard line on immigration policies. On Tuesday, Rosa Maria Hernandez and her adult cousin, a US citizen, had to go through an interior Border Patrol checkpoint while in an ambulance to get from Laredo, Texas to a Corpus Christi hospital for emergency gallbladder surgery, said family attorney Leticia Gonzalez on Thursday.
The mother of a 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who was detained by Border Patrol agents after undergoing surgery is fighting to get her back. After undergoing gallbladder surgery Tuesday, federal agents refused to release Rosa Maria Hernandez back to her parents, sending her instead to a children's shelter in San Antonio, Texas, that her family said is not equipped to care for her, according to the attorney representing the mother.
President Donald Trump's administration released a list of hard-line immigration priorities Sunday that threaten to derail efforts to protect from deportation hundreds of thousands of young illegal aliens, many of whom were brought into the United States as children. The demands include overhauling the country's green-card system, hiring 10,000 more immigration officers and building Trump's promised wall along the southern border.
Senate hopeful Beto O'Rourke said this week that he isn't worried that Democrats haven't found a viable candidate to run for governor. "The only thing I can do is what I can do.
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro is repeating that he has no plans to run for Texas governor despite the state's Democratic Party chairman insisting last week that the congressman's still considering it.
Texas Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro said President Donald Trump's sharp exchange of warnings with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "escalated the tension" with the rogue nation. Castro of San Antonio spoke with ABC News "This Week" co-anchor Martha Raddatz on Sunday in the wake of what appears to be a successful test of a hydrogen bomb by North Korea.
Homeowners whose properties were damaged by Harvey may face another challenge: filing insurance claims before a new Texas law takes effect on Friday. The statute, House Bill 1774 , limits penalties for property-casualty insurers when policyholders sue them for being slow to settle a claim, offer a lowball payout or decline a claim altogether.
Attorneys and a Texas lawmaker are urging homeowners to try and file claims for property damage inflicted by Hurricane Harvey before Friday, when a new insurance law goes into effect. The law will affect policyholders who file a lawsuit against their insurance company for failing to pay enough in claims or repaying claims too slowly.
Attorneys and a Texas lawmaker are urging homeowners to try and file claims for property damage inflicted by Hurricane Harvey before Friday, when a new insurance law goes into effect. The law will impact policyholders who file a lawsuit against their insurance company for failing to pay enough in claims or repaying claims too slowly.
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday he revived a "bathroom bill" targeting transgender people even though he was told it would never get a vote in the GOP-controlled state House, while signaling that the twice-failed effort is dead for the foreseeable future. A proposal requiring transgender Texans to use public restrooms according to the gender on their birth certificates fizzled Tuesday night, when lawmakers abruptly ended a month-long special legislative session Abbott convened.
U.S. Congressman Joaquin Castro, D-Texas , weighed in on the special legislative session and tied it to the president's approach to governing. "This was a Trump inspired legislative session and special legislative session," Castro said in a Wednesday press conference.
Here is a radical proposition: The public has a right to know the immigration status and history of foreign criminal suspects. Their entrance and employment sponsorship records should not be treated like classified government secrets - especially if the public's tax dollars subsidized their salaries.
Democrats haven't won a Texas governor's race in nearly three decades, but a booming Hispanic population and the party's dominance of the state's largest cities have made them willing to invest in the contest to keep hopes of an eventual resurgence alive. After high-profile candidates lost decisively in the last two elections, though, the party now finds itself in unprecedented territory for the 2018 ballot: with no major candidate to run.
In this Nov. 4, 2014, file photo, Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis waves to supporters as she arrives to make her concession speech at her election watch party in Fort Worth, Texas. Four years ago the Democrats pumped big money and organizing muscle into Texas, hoping a gubernatorial candidate that generated national stardom with a 12-hour filibuster could begin turning America's largest red state blue.
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Rep. Joaquin Castro said Wednesday that the circumstances of the second meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit earlier this month are "not normal." A senior White House official told CNN the discussion -- which was not disclosed at the time -- lasted "nearly an hour."
At least three members of the U.S. House are mulling a run for a possible U.S. Senate vacancy, should President Donald Trump appoint U.S. Sen. John Cornyn as the new FBI director. U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul , an Austin Republican, is one of those hopefuls for the would-be vacancy, along with Democratic U.S. Reps.
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) will not launch a bid to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), likely clearing the field for another Democratic congressman to take on the first-term Republican incumbent and former presidential candidate, the Washington Post reports.
President Donald Trump's call on Wednesday for a "major investigation" into voter fraud, despite no evidence to support his claims that millions of ballots cast illegally cost him the popular vote, led many critics to pounce on him as thin-skinned. But some voting rights experts and Democrats say they fear something more pernicious than a bruised ego at play: a long-range bid to impose tougher voting requirements nationwide.