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Suppression law. it took bad gas can, who almost never misses an election, three attempts over 28 days, before she successfully received her mail-in ballot. her first ballot application was rejected because the form needed had not been uploaded on to the county website. she tried again. the new form required voters to provide texas i.d. number, like a drivers license, partial social security number, the number must match what they used when they register to vote for that gasket, that was 46 year...

I.d. laws racist, professor tolson? >> thank you for that question. so it depends. one thing we have to stop doing is treating all voter i.d. laws as the same. >> okay, so your answer -- i want to move quickly. so it depends is your answer? >> thats my answer. >> okay, so voter i.d. laws are racist? >> apologies, mr. cruz. your state of texas, perhaps. >> okay so you think the entire state of texas is racist. what about requiring an idea to vote is racist. >> i think its pretty reductive. im not...

I.d. laws racist, professor tolson? >> thank you for that question. so it depends. one thing we have to stop doing is treating all voter i.d. laws as the same. >> okay, so your answer -- i want to move quickly. so it depends is your answer? >> thats my answer. >> okay, so voter i.d. laws are racist? >> apologies, mr. cruz. your state of texas, perhaps. >> okay so you think the entire state of texas is racist. what about requiring an idea to vote is racist. >> i think its pretty reductive. im not...

Because there wasnt only me. there were many that suffered. >> i want to talk about what happened when you were apprehended, but one more question about the conditions. were other folks that were in there with you, had they been there for long periods of time, like yourself? >> yes. there were people there for some 30 days. including one for 43 days. there were people who were there way more time than me. i was there 23 days. there were people who had been there for much longer time. >> you were...

Tonight were learning new details about the american teenage boy who was detained by customs and border protection for more than three weeks even after showing border agents his texas i.d., his social security card, and his birth certificate. a 18-year-old francisco gleesia was held with no access to a shower, forced to sleep on the floor, and lost 26 pounds because he was not given enough food to eat. he told the "dallas morning news" that it was unhumane how they treated us. i was ready to sig...

Papers, you do. you had them in your wallet. you had a birth certificate, a social security card, a texas id, when you presented them at the check point, what did they say to you when you said im a u.s. citizen. >> in the moment when i showed my identifications and everything, they said that the documents were false, that i was not an american citizen and they didnt believe me. i would tell them after showing them all my documents that i was an american citizen and they would still not trust wha...

Was hiv positive against what is supposed to be government policy. tonight were learning new details about the american teenage boy who was detained by customs and border protection for more than three weeks even after showing border agents his texas i.d., his social security card, and his birth certificate. a 18-year-old francisco gleesia was held with no access to a shower, forced to sleep on the floor, and lost 26 pounds because he was not given enough food to eat. he told the "dallas morning...

>> who did the deportation? >> we would do the deportation. >> the child was in a different city in the united states? >> we dont do the reunifications. >> you would do the doe pore taking before the reunification? >> yes. >> in other words youre kidnapping the child? >> were not kidnapping the child. >> deporting a parent without their child is literal kidnapping. >> new details out today about an american teen born in dallas, who has obtained immigration officials for nearly a month. he provid...

Caught in the cbp check point, right? >> correct. >> he haddo documentation but ty still detained him? >> yes, they did. >> why? >> i -- honestly, they just were racial profiling him. he was in a vehicle along with another person who had no status. his brother himself has no status and they just thought because he had a tourist visa, his birth certificate was not real and they -- he also had isd texas i.d. and social security card and all those documents should be proof hes a u.s. citizen. >> so...