Company Promises to "Take Back Carrollton" from "Illegal Lawn Services"
Carrollton's Jeff Hinkle got a lot of publicity Wednesday and Thursday from one of his business cards featuring his lawn care service business, Mow Masters. Most of the time, getting viral attention on...
View ArticleNorth Texas ICE Raid Highlights Differences in Trump, Obama Immigration...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 100 people during a recently concluded 10-day sting targeting North Texas and Oklahoma, the agency announced Wednesday, continuing a trend in...
View ArticleState Sen. Don Huffines Warns, Again, of Massive Voter Fraud
A day before the voter registration deadline for the midterms, state Sen. Don Huffines issued a demand for an "emergency" Texas Senate committee hearing on voter registration fraud, particularly the...
View ArticleChanges to "Public Charge" Rule Could Leave Millions of Texans Without a...
Another week, another regulatory change that could hurt millions of Texans proposed by President Donald Trump's administration. This time around, Kirstjen Nielsen's Department of Homeland Security is...
View Article"Sanctuary Cities" Bill Is Threatening Health of Texas Latinos, New Study Says
The Texas Legislature's 2017 "sanctuary cities" bill, which requires local law enforcement and elected officials to cooperate with federal immigration authorities or face loss of state funding or...
View ArticleAffluenza Mom Tonya Couch out of Jail on Bail
As of Thursday afternoon, Tonya Couch is a mostly free woman again after spending four months in Tarrant County jail. A Tarrant County judge revoked the affluenza mom's bail in June, after she tested...
View ArticleTexas Leadership at a Loss to Challenge Trump's Threat to Birthright Citizenship
Another day, another promise from President Donald Trump to his base ahead of next week's midterm elections. Tuesday, rather than issuing more wisdom about the caravan of Central American migrants...
View ArticleCarrollton-Based Motel 6 Agrees to $7.6 Million Settlement for Providing...
The Motel 6 hotel chain has agreed to a $7.6 million settlement with a group of individuals who sued the company earlier this year for disclosing their personal information to U.S. Immigration and...
View ArticleAnother White Supremacist Flyer Found in North Texas
Another flyer from a white supremacist group was found in a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Highland Village near Lewisville last weekend. This time, the flyer, which read “Keep America American” and...
View ArticlePeople Gather at City Hall in Solidarity with Asylum Seekers
Dallasites gathered at City Hall in solidarity with asylum seekers on Sunday as reports came in about hundreds of migrants from the Central American migrant caravan marching along the U.S.-Mexico...
View ArticleTexas AG Paxton Joins Trump in DACA Supreme Court Fight
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton continues to do everything in his power to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, which allows undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children...
View ArticleNorth Texas Activists Mourn Second Child's Death in Border Patrol Custody
The Border Patrol is ordering medical checks on every child in its custody following the death of two migrant children as Dallas activists and advocacy groups mourn their deaths and ask why medical...
View ArticleMost Systems Are Go for DFW TSA, Despite Fed Shutdown
Dallas' airports are feeling the effects of President Donald Trump's government shutdown but aren't likely to face any serious pain for another couple of weeks, Transportation Security Administration...
View ArticleThe Closer to Mexico that White People Get, the Better Their Manners Become
This will be my second what-I-did-on-my-vacation column, and all I did was go down to the Rio Grande Valley for a week, so maybe that means I ought to go on more, better vacations? When I was down...
View ArticleWhat Happened Before and What Happens After the ICE Raid in Allen?
The headlines on reports about last week's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's raid on an electronic repairs plant in Allen were startling. In one day, ICE agents arrested 280 people at CVE...
View ArticleAffluenza Mom Tonya Couch’s Bail Revoked. Again.
One of DFW's longest running true-crime soap operas took another turn Friday as Tarrant County authorities arrested Tonya Couch, the mother of "affluenza" drunk driver Ethan Couch, for yet another...
View ArticleAfter Years of Decline, International Grad Students Coming Back to North...
For the last two years, colleges and universities nationwide, including in North Texas, have seen fewer international students applying to graduate degree programs. But officials at some North Texas...
View ArticleTed Cruz’s Totally Real Plan to Pay for the Border Wall Is Back, Baby
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has resurrected the only plan for paying for President Donald Trump's favorite pet project that's less likely to succeed than the president's own plan for paying for the scheme....
View ArticleNew Immigration Rules Would Limit Access to Green Cards
Immigrant advocates say that the new rules would unfairly target minority immigrants who come to the country legally and make it harder for families to succeed here.
View ArticleTexas Governor Abbott Responds to the El Paso Shooting With a Task Force
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced his plans Wednesday to address the Aug. 3 mass murder in El Paso. It sounds an awful lot like his response to the school shooting in Santa Fe last year. This time...
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