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Texas & Feds in a ‘Powder Keg’ showdown

Tensions between authorities in Texas and the federal government over illegal immigration across the southern border are a “powder keg” according to Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Kevin Stitt, who was asked about the danger of “a force-on-force conflict” between state and federal forces. On Monday the Supreme Court ruled federal agents could remove razor-wire from the […]

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Texas Nat. Guard defies Feds demands to vacate

The attorney general of Texas on Wednesday defied federal officials who demanded state authorities abandon a public park along the U.S.-Mexico border that state National Guard soldiers seized last week, setting up a legal showdown with the Biden administration over the country’s immigration policies. Over the weekend, the Department of Homeland Security called on Texas […]

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Texas Gov signs law allowing arrest of migrants

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas on Monday signed one of the harshest state immigration laws in modern U.S. history, authorizing state officials to arrest and seek the deportation of migrants suspected of crossing the border with Mexico illegally. The law, known as SB4, gives Texas law enforcement authorities the power to stop, arrest and […]