Texas GOP gets tougher on #immigration. #hispanic
(Houston Chronicle) Texas Republicans adopted another get-tough policy on immigration and bilingual education Saturday that some say will make it hard for the party to attract Hispanic voters at a time...
View ArticleLocal immigration enforcement costly and potentially unconstitutional
(American Progress) A handful of local communities across our nation enacted unconstitutional, discriminatory, and costly immigration controls in recent years in an effort to chase away undocumented...
View ArticleHow much did illegal immigrants contribute to Texas’ economic boom?
(Washington Post) A fast-growing population was key to Texas’ record job growth, fueling a demand for construction and services while the rest of the country languished. How much did illegal...
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Rick Perry moves right on immigration
(Los Angeles Times) Immigration advocates in Texas were heartened last year when the Republican governor, Rick Perry, flatly stated that Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants "would not be the...
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Did immigrants take most of the new jobs in Texas?
(Washington Post) Did immigrants take the vast majority of new jobs in Texas? That’s the claim coming from the Center for Immigration Studies, an advocacy group for immigration reduction. A new CIS...
View ArticleStudy: Only 1 in 5 Texas 8th-graders earns any degree with 6 years after high...
(Austin Statesman) Dropout rates, graduation rates, retention rates, passing rates for standardized tests — the education arena is flush with statistics. Now, a private foundation in Houston is...
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Asian American Honor Student At Texas High School, Jailed For Missing School
(Huffington Post) Diane Tran, a 17-year-old honor student in Texas, was forced to spend the night in jail last week after missing too many classes, KHOU-11's Sherry Williams reports. The Willis High...
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‘Latino Barack Obama’ Julian Castro enters national spotlight at DNC
(Globe and Mail) A telegenic young Texas mayor billed as a Latino Barack Obama in the making, Julian Castro, bounded on to the world’s brightest political stage Tuesday, the first Hispanic to give a...
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor slams Texas prosecutor for racial remark
(Los Angeles Times) Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court's first Latina justice, slammed a Texas prosecutor Monday for citing race as grounds for convicting a defendant of a drug deal, saying the...
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African American teen invited to ‘KKK’ birthday party, mom says
(ABC News) A black student at a Texas junior high school was the victim of routine racial taunts and bullying, including his receiving a fake invitation to a KKK birthday party to be held in his...
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