
The Eyes of Chihuahua
The 20-story Torre Centinela looming over Juárez is part of a much larger AI-powered surveillance system that won’t stop at the Texas-Mexico border.
Since 1954
The 20-story Torre Centinela looming over Juárez is part of a much larger AI-powered surveillance system that won’t stop at the Texas-Mexico border.
Fighting for immigrant justice is a Jewish religious and cultural obligation.
Books ⋆
So late in the season, this was likely a bad one, if it came this way…
Books ⋆
A new memoir traces the evolution of a trailblazing civil rights group in Texas.
A killer storm two decades past still teaches lessons about survival and resilience in a world where weather is getting more extreme.
Labor ⋆
A 26-year-old employee at McBride Operating in Waskom was killed when a valve blew off a pump last year. Another worker had sued the company two years earlier after being injured on the job.
… try to efficiently administer the primary process and persuade people to fill empty precinct chair positions, among other duties.
GOP’s Trumped-up redrawing took a wrecking ball to congressional districts. Now comes the mad dash for seats.
Jodey Arrington was the House architect of Trump’s massive tax-and-spend bill that includes steep healthcare cuts.
As immigration enforcement spending ramps up, oversight mechanisms have been stifled—including for members of Congress.
Efforts by Trump and Mexico don’t address root causes or measure up to an evolving, international fentanyl market, experts say.
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement rolls out necessary training, the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office joins a growing list of Texas law enforcement agencies deputizing officers to serve as roving immigration agents.
A Fort Worth modern art exhibition and a new experimental film are part of a renaissance of work about an influential Caribbean writer.
Texas writer and director Katherine Craft’s Audible comedy depicts a musician’s tumultuous return to Plano as she adjusts to new limitations.
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