Tag Archives: refugees
Judge Halts Child Care License for Dilley Detention Center
Citing the potential for abuse at the center, a Travis County judge prevented Texas’ child welfare agency from licensing the facility for child care.
Texas' efforts to license the second of two immigrant family detention centers in the state as a child care facility are on hold until a September trial....Read More
Amarillo Refugees Back in the Spotlight at Capitol
A Texas Senate committee heard familiar testimony from Amarillo leaders about how the city is dealing with a relatively large population of refugees....Read More
The Strangers Next Door
How Amarillo became a safe haven from violence across the world — and Ground Zero in the backlash against refugees.
How Amarillo became a safe haven from violence across the world — and Ground Zero in the backlash against refugees....Read More
Ted Cruz’s Plan to ‘Utterly Destroy’ Terrorism Will Utterly Encourage It
Cruz's plan to "patrol" and "secure" Muslim neighborhoods echoes the militarization tactics that experts say foment, rather than discourage, terrorism....Read More
Loon Star State: Greg’s Campfire Stories Were Legendary
In this month's Loon Star State cartoon by Ben Sargent, Greg Abbott tries to spook the kiddies with terrifying tales of Syrian refugees....Read More
State of Texas: How to Get Asylum or Become a Refugee
The United States has a long history of taking in people fleeing dangerous countries, but we also have a history of locking down the borders for fear of foreign...Read More
Refreshingly Fascist
It's easy to avoid hypocrisy when you don't have any principles in the first place.
I have a question I’m afraid to hear the answer to: is there any degree of hypocrisy, or ideological dishonesty, that people won’t put up with when it comes...Read More
The Things We Feared, 2015
Before we hurtle into 2016, let’s take a look back at everything, and everyone, that terrified us — or was supposed to.
Will the fever subside next year? Highly unlikely. It’s a presidential year, after all, and the clearest pathway to the White House is through the amygdala â€...Read More
Closing Our Doors, Closing Our Minds to Syrian Refugees
No statement from the Governor’s Mansion in the last year summoned as much bile in my well-worn throat as Abbott’s vociferous declarations that Texas would ...Read More
