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Government agencies were ill-prepared to handle family separations that occurred due to the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy and their decisions probably led to more illegal border crossings, a federal report has found. The Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General's report released Tuesday said that the administration's choice to limit entrances at legal ports of entry due to a lack of resources "likely resulted in additional border crossings."
Add Midterm Elections as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Midterm Elections news, video, and analysis from ABC News. In many ways Austin, Texas, was the last place Beto O'Rourke should have been with just over a month left until a pivotal U.S. Senate election .
Throughout 2017 and 2018, your good friends here at the Observer have strained to make sense, any sort of sense, out of the Senate race between Sen. Ted Cruz and El Paso U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke. We've talked with O'Rourke about Cruz's plan to have notorious drug lord Joaqun "El Chapo" Guzman pay for President Donald Trump's wall on the Texas-Mexico border, been there as the representative barnstormed all 254 Texas counties and tried to figure out just what the Texas GOP was attempting to do when it scolded O'Rourke for being in a band and skateboarding through a Whataburger parking lot.
Democratic Texas Senate candidate Beto O'Rouke rallied thousands with Willie Nelson on Saturday night, offering an openly liberal vision for the country's largest conservative state and vowing that his campaign that has shunned outside political support can topple Republican Ted Cruz in November. Taking an open-air stage in Texas' progressive-minded capital city, O'Rourke said he wanted to appeal to voters from both parties and independents but called for universal health care and gay rights, warned of the ills of climate change and switched to his fluent Spanish to denounce President Donald Trump's calls to wall off the U.S.-Mexico border.
AUSTIN, Texas - The Latest on Texas Democratic Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke's concert with Willie Nelson : Texas Democratic Senate candidate Beto O'Rouke is rallying with Willie Nelson, telling thousands of supporters, "The people of the future, our kids and our grandkids, are depending on what we do at this moment." O'Rouke, a onetime punk rocker facing Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in November, took the stage Saturday night in Austin to cheers from many wearing T-shirts or waving signs bearing his name.
In this Sept. 21, 2018, file photo, Democratic U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke takes part in in a debate for the Texas U.S. Senate with Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, in Dallas.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott presented himself as a successful steward of a thriving state at the only debate of the Texas gubernatorial campaign Friday night, eschewing any sharp attacks on long-shot Democratic rival Lupe Valdez. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott presented himself as a successful steward of a thriving state at the only debate of the Texas gubernatorial campaign Friday night, eschewing any sharp attacks on long-shot Democratic rival Lupe Valdez, who portrayed Abbott as unwilling to provide adequate funding for public education and too ready to appeal to racial fears with what she called the state's show-me-your-papers law.
Phoenix prosecutor Rachel Mitchell questions Christine Blasey Ford as Senators, from left, Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, listen during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faced a crucial vote Friday as a Senate panel decides whether to move his nomination on to the full Senate a day after he adamantly denied sexually assaulting Christine Blasey Ford, who insisted she's "100 percent" certain he did.
Nearly a month after a police report surfaced on his 1998 arrest for driving while intoxicated, Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Beto O'Rourke was asked about it during his debate with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. Gromer Jeffers of the Dallas Morning News said to O'Rourke: "You have addressed your 1998 DWI arrest numerous times during your public career.
Phoenix prosecutor Rachel Mitchell questions Christine Blasey Ford during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing as Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah., listen, Sept. 27, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke is condemning a protest that forced his opponent in Texas' closer-than-expected Senate race to leave a Washington restaurant.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and his wife were accosted at a restaurant in Washington, DC, on Monday night after several protesters criticized his support of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and his wife were accosted at a restaurant in Washington, DC, on Monday night after several protesters criticized his support of Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife Heidi were hounded from a D.C. restaurant while dining Monday night by a group of Brett Kavanaugh hecklers protesting the senator's support for the Supreme Court nominee facing allegations of sexual assault, The HuffPost reported . Video footage of the incident, posted on Twitter by an account called "smashracismDC," shows the activists confront Cruz in the restaurant as they chant, "We believe survivors!" In another video clip , a woman claiming to be a survivor of sexual assault asks Cruz what his stance is on Kavanaugh.