illegal immigration

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has blocked funding for the first time over so-called "sanctuary cities" after Austin's sheriff stopped complying with all federal immigration detainers.

WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — After a week's delay, state senators are set to begin considering a contentious plan to repeal a Texas law granting in-state public university tuition to the children of some people in the United States illegally.

ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House will vote this week to go on record as disapproving President Barack Obama's executive actions to curb deportations for millions of immigrants here illegally.

Republican Representative John Carter of Round Rock has withdrawn from a bipartisan House group working on comprehensive immigration reform.

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A panel of U.S. and Mexico diplomats, politicians and business leaders will meet to discuss cross-border commerce, infrastructure investments and immigration reform. The talks will come at a U.S.-Mexico competitiveness agenda conference in El Paso on Wednesday...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A San Antonio woman who led a cell that smuggled as many as 200 people into the U.S. for the Zetas cartel has been sentenced to just more than five years in prison while her brother was sentenced to four years. The San Antonio Express-News reports 26-year-old April Gaitan and 29-year-old Armando Gaitan were sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to conspiracy charges for thei

UPDATE (based on Department of Labor Press Release from October 17, 2013): Company officials with High Performance Ropes of America have been ordered to give back-ordered payments totaling $165,356 in overtime wages and liquidated damages to 31 employees. ...

I’m Lynn Woolley with your Logic Minute for 2/21/13 From page one: Dallas Morning News – “Conservative evangelical Christians have become allies in the “path to citizenship” for illegal aliens. A coalition of religious leaders in Texas and elsewhere have joined forces to engage their congregations in support of amnesty...