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Texas A&M University - KingsvilleThe flesh-eating parasite has not been reported in Texas since 1982, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture is eyeing the movements of New World Screwworms south of the Texas-Mexico border. -
Alyda Muela/Puente News CollaborativeAs the Trump administration carries out promised mass deportations, families in predominantly Latino El Paso are adapting in a region known as the Ellis Island of the Southwest. A majority of the ICE and Border Patrol agents in the region tasked with immigration enforcement are also Latino.
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Texas Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico appeared at a convention in Southern Dallas and made an appeal to primary voters who supported Rep. Jasmine Crockett. -
The late civil rights icon is facing allegations of sexually abusing women and girls tied to the farmworker movement. The fallout is already reshaping how he's honored across Texas, from canceled events to ending a state holiday. -
The Trump administration recently announced it would release 172 million barrels of oil from the United States' Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which is located along the Gulf Coast, including two sites in Texas. -
The allegations include claims that Chávez sexually abused women and girls tied to the farmworker movement in the 1960s and 1970s. -
Deportations of Mexicans dropped to 144,000 in 2025, roughly half the annual figure under President Biden, according to data analyzed by Quinto Elemento Lab, an investigative news organization. President Trump's beefed-up border security may have deterred many from Mexico from attempting to enter the U.S. illegally. -
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that more than $126 billion in emergency tariffs were illegally collected, and the U.S. Court of International Trade said the Trump administration must refund them.
