A $50,000 reward is being offered for the arrest of a Mexican national wanted on charges related to sex trafficking little girls and women. A massive digital billboard announced the reward for the wanted illegal alien.
A message sent to the parents and students of the Houston Independent School District (ISD) warns of a threat of violence to the district. The message says the threat is similar in nature to those received by Los Angeles, New York and Miami school districts.
Affordable Texas housing played a key role in Toyota’s 2014 decision to move 3,000 jobs from California to Texas. The housing issue was seen by employees as a big factor in their willingness to relocate from Torrance, California, to Plano, Texas.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he will not sit idle while the federal government allows the flood of illegal alien children and families to flood into the state. He has ordered the state’s National Guard to remain in place along the Texas-Mexican border.
The Texas Legislature could look into new state-level immigration laws to give police more authority in immigration-related cases. During a meeting of the Texas House’s State Affairs Committee, Texas Deputy Attorney General Brantley Starr told legislators they could create state-level immigration laws if they were careful to carve out unique areas that did not conflict or step on federal immigration laws.
On December 15, 2010, most American families woke up and were wondering how close they were to completing their Christmas shopping. One American family, the family of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry awoke to the horrific news that their loved one had been murdered while they slept. Five years later, that family still seeks the answers to what happened on that night in southern Arizona and justice for those in the government they believe are ultimately responsible for Brian’s death.
A Texas man pulled a gun from his car and stopped three men attempting an armed robbery. One of the alleged robbers is now in critical condition at a Houston area hospital.
A two-month border surge has brought nearly 11,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) across the border into the United States from Mexico. The numbers of children crossing without parents is double that of the same period from 2014.
Despite earlier denials by the Waco Police Department, ballistics reports revealed that four of the bikers killed in the Twin Peaks shooting were shot by the same caliber of rifle bullet used by Waco police on the day of the shooting.
Late Friday afternoon, the campaign for Democrat Sylvester Turner sheepishly announced the endorsement of his candidacy by President Barack Obama after an email was leaked earlier in the day. The email informed a Texas Congresswoman that the endorsement would be kept quiet “so as not to get more Republicans energized to come out.”
Human smugglers carrying 12 illegal aliens were captured north of Laredo in a cloned U.S. Border Patrol vehicle. The incident happened on Interstate 35 at mile marker 65 near the town of Cotulla. That would be located nearly seventy miles into Texas. A border patrol agent became suspicious of the cloned vehicle while he was following it, Border Patrol Agent Hector Garza told Breitbart Texas while acting in his capacity as president of the National Border Patrol Council, Local 2455.
A Texas sheriff expressed concerns that the federal government’s plans to bring large numbers of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) from the border to the campsite located southwest of Dallas will become a “small city.” The children are illegal immigrants mostly from Central America who have recently crossed the border during the latest surge.
The Texas House State Affairs Committee will host a hearing on Thursday afternoon on the topic of “undocumented immigrants” but will only hear testimony from invited speakers. Chairman Byron Cook (R-Corsicana) has called a meeting of the powerful State Affairs
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday to help Texas property owners in their battle with the Bureau of Land Management over 90,000 acres of land. The White House has threatened to veto the bill which now moves on to the Senate.
Two illegal aliens have been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for their role in the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. The two men were found guilty in a federal court in October during a trial attended by the family of Agent Terry.
The White House announced it will recommend the president veto the bill designed to protect the private property rights of Texas landowners in what has become known as the “Red River Land Grab.” A bill to protect these property owners is headed to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives for a vote on Wednesday afternoon.
More public officials on the Texas border have pleaded guilty to public corruption charges. This time, a former Maverick County commissioner and justice of the peace pleaded guilty in federal court to bribery charges.
Thieves broke into a Texas sheriff’s official vehicle this weekend, stealing eight guns and a law enforcement jacket. The break-in occurred on Saturday while the sheriff lunched in a Houston-area restaurant.
Despite the order to the contrary from Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Syrian refugees will begin arriving in at least two Texas cites on Monday. The arrival follows last week’s withdrawal of a request for a restraining order by the Texas Attorney General.
A new children’s book has been released honoring slain U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. The book, You Are My Hero, was created by his sister and a friend to honor the slain agent who was murdered nearly five years ago in southern Arizona.
The Attorney General of Texas has withdrawn his request for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against the federal government to block them from placing a group of Syrian refugees in Texas. The move comes after Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed the federal government provided as yet unspecified information about the refugees who are set to arrive in Texas.
A Beaumont, Texas, police officer was shot in the back after responding to a domestic disturbance call and was saved by his bulletproof vest. The suspect’s girlfriend was also saved by the officer’s vest.
The governor of Texas wrapped up a three day economic development tour of Cuba on Wednesday without meeting with any Cuban dissidents.
The Texas Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against the federal government to block the resettlement of Syrian refugees in Texas.
Efforts in Congress to save the Air Force’s A-10 Warthog from the scrapyard and move it to the frontlines of the war against the Islamic State bring together an unusual pairing of support.
