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Apr 12, 2021
Bush Intercontinental Airport and Southwest Airlines held a ribbon-cutting ceremony today to celebrate the carrier's return to the airport. As of today, Southwest will begin passenger flights at Bush Intercontinental for the first time in 16-years. Southwest will operate 15 daily nonstops to five destinations from the airport's Terminal A. The flights will go to and from Dallas Love Field, Chicago Midway Airport, Denver, Nashville, and New Orleans. Some of the one-way fares will be as low as 29-dollars. Southwest's operations at Hobby Airport will remain the same. 
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Apr 12, 2021
Texas GOP Representative Dan Crenshaw plans to take a month-long leave after emergency eye surgery. The former U.S. Navy Seal lost his right eye in 2012 from a bomb attack while serving in Afghanistan. On Sunday he had emergency surgery on his other eye after his ophthalmologist discovered his retina was detaching due to lingering effects of the blast. Crenshaw says the surgery went well, but he'll be "effectively blind" for a month. He added that he's been through worse before and he'll get through this.
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Texas is expecting 1.9 million COVID vaccines this coming week.

Apr 1, 2021
Governor Greg Abbott was briefed today about the issues impacting the Texas-Mexico border.
Abbott met with DPS Director Colonel Steve McCraw, Adjutant General of Texas Tracy Norris, members of the National Border Patrol Council, and local law enforcement.
Afterwards, he held a press conference in Weslaco where he provided an update on Texas’ response to the humanitarian crisis at the southern border through Operation Lone Star. Prior to the press conference, the Governor received a briefing from the Texas Department of Public Safety and local law enforcement on the ongoing crisis at the border. 
Since the launch of Operation Lone Star on March 4th, DPS has made 598 criminal arrests and made over 16,000 referrals of illegal immigrants to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. This averaged out to 21 criminal arrests per day and more than 571 referrals per day to border patrol. The operation has also led to the seizure of 14 pounds of cocaine, 23 fire arms, and millions of dollars in currency, and the arrests of nine gang members involved in the movement of this contraband.

Mar 30, 2021
Greg Abbott has sent a letter to Vice President — and newly named Border Czar —
Kamala Harris demanding answers and swift action from the Biden Administration to address the ongoing humanitarian crisis at the border. In the letter, the Governor also urges Vice President Harris to visit the border to see the crisis for herself. 
The Governor is urging the administration to interview every unaccompanied minor coming across the border to determine if any child has been harmed, groomed, or victimized by human traffickers in any way. Governor Abbott demanded that Vice President Harris and the Biden Administration make clear what they are doing to prosecute human traffickers and address the surge in border crossings.

Mar 31, 2021
The Texas Department of Public Safety says members of one of its special units helped save an immigrant child's life. A Texas DPS South Texas Region Facebook post says members of its South Texas Special Operations Group along with Border Patrol agents rescued the baby from the waters of the Rio Grande on March 16th near Roma. The post says the smugglers threw the child overboard from the raft they were using to smuggle illegal immigrants into Texas. The report also says before they threw the baby into the river, the traffickers had assaulted the baby's mom leaving her with a broken leg.

Mar 31, 2021
The former head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is urging the Biden administration to restart the Remain In Mexico protocol. Without it, Tom Homan says the surge in illegal immigration will continue. Homan claims there is nothing humane about the Biden policy, which he says is putting children into the hands of cartels. Homan spoke on Tuesday in Texas after visiting a migrant processing center with members of Congress. Thousands of migrant children have crossed the border since Biden was elected.
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