Tag Archives: Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa
Texas Legislature Adjourns Without Adding Money for Census Outreach. That Could Cost the State Billions.
With the census becoming more politicized under Trump, Republicans shied away from spending money to ensure all Texans get counted.
Texas has big things at stake in the 2020 U.S. Census: billions of dollars in federal funding and congressional seats that could give the state a bigger say in ...Read More
‘License to Discriminate’: Texas Senate Advances Anti-LGBTQ Bill
Doctors, child care providers, counselors and other state-licensed workers who refuse to provide services based on “a sincerely held religious belief” would be protected under Senate Bill 17.
The Texas Senate on Tuesday gave its initial OK to a bill that civil rights advocates say would give state-licensed workers — including doctors, child care pr...Read More
Legislators ‘Alarmed’ by State’s Refusing Birth Certificates for Children of Undocumented Parents
Two legislators have weighed in on the controversy over Texas’ refusal to grant birth certificates to some children of undocumented families. On Wednesday, Se...Read More
New Hope for Identifying Migrant Bodies in South Texas
In the past seven years, the bodies of hundreds of migrants have been recovered in the Texas borderlands, but only a fraction of the remains have been identifie...Read More
Senate Higher Ed Committee Approves UT-Pan American/UT-Brownsville Merger
The Senate Higher Education Committee passed a slightly amended version of SB 24, the bill merging UT-Brownsville and UT-Pan American, after testimony from UT S...Read More