Map of Texas Congressional District 2.
A Texas Senate committee on Friday heard public testimony from Houston residents who urged lawmakers to eliminate partisan gerrymandering when drawing district maps this legislative session.
Invited speakers were joined by members of the public to testify at a Texas Senate Committee for Redistricting hearing about the impacts of current district lines in the area. The committee on Friday focused on maps encompassing the city of Houston and surrounding areas.
Houston lawyer Emily Eby with the Texas Civil Rights Project testified via Zoom, and displayed a map of her community as a virtual background to show the effects of gerrymandering on her family.
Immigration changes: What has Biden done so far?
By Teresa Gutierrez posted on February 12, 2021
Duke university student Anthony Salgado said it best in an editorial for his university paper: “We need immigration revolution, not immigration reform.” (tinyurl.com/y695qdw9)
Unfortunately, the Democratic Party establishment is not able to grasp this concept.
But immigrants have had enough of false promises.
A caravan of thousands of migrants from Honduras headed to the U.S. southern border clashed with Guatemalan authorities in late January.
The immigrant/migrant/refugee population is hopeful about the election of President Joe Biden, primarily because it follows the exit of arch anti-immigrant Donald Trump. Their hopes have been fueled by progressive stands and edicts that Biden issued before taking office.
UpdatedTue, Feb 9, 2021 at 3:34 am CT
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Austinites for Progressive Reform pitches ambitious campaign finance laws for a May ballot but one aspect excludes a swath of the citizenry. (Shutterstock)
AUSTIN, TX Austin City Council on Tuesday is scheduled to listen to a presentation on the potential use of Democracy Dollars designed to replace local campaign finance rules a proposal stemming from a citizen-initiated petition by a political coalition that garnered enough petition signatures to place it on the May 1 ballot. But concern has arisen over citizens who would be excluded from using the political currency including legal permanent residents and those on parole or probation.
One motherâs quest captures the challenges as Biden seeks to reunite separated migrant families
By Jazmine Ulloa Globe Staff,Updated February 6, 2021, 3:29 p.m.
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WASHINGTON â Angelica Gonzalez-Garcia answered the call from an unknown number with suspicion.
She was scared and alone in a small apartment in Framingham, desperate to find her 7-year-old daughter after they had been separated a month earlier without any explanation at an Arizona detention center. At the time, in mid-2018, the
public was only becoming aware of what immigration lawyers along the US-Mexico border had long suspected: The US government was splitting migrant families apart not by incompetence or chance but as a matter of policy, a form of deterrence, as then Attorney General Jeff Sessions described it, to discourage