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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton calls for help at southern border during RGV visit 1 day 6 hours 53 minutes ago Wednesday, April 28 2021 Apr 28, 2021 April 28, 2021 10:02 AM April 28, 2021 in News Share: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton held a press conference in Mission on Wednesday after meeting with law enforcement officials over the increase of migrants crossing the southern border. Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon, Refugio County Sheriff Raul ‘Pinky’ Gonzalez, and Jackson County Sheriff A.J. Louderback also attended the event. Sheriffs from the Rio Grande Valley were not present...

28 Apr 2021 Towns across Texas are being overwhelmed by tens of thousands of surging illegal migrants, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told a press conference Wednesday. The press conference took place along the U.S. border with Mexico and included sheriffs from cities across the state who are “overwhelmed” by the surge of illegal migrants. Pinky Gonzales, sheriff of Refugio County, Texas, said the rural area 180 miles north of the border with a population of 1,000 has been invaded by lawbreakers. “We have had these human smugglers go through our town going 80 miles an hour in a 35-m...

(The Center Square) – Texas is seeing a crime surge as a result of the Biden administration’s open border policies, state Attorney General Ken Paxton said at a news conference Wednesday in Mission. Paxton was accompanied by state police officers, border patrol agents and several sheriffs to raise awareness about the surge. Paxton, who has sued the Biden administration five times over immigration policies since January, has been meeting with law enforcement officials across the state. Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon spoke about the impact of crime caused by illegal immigrants in h...

Texas Attorney General: Law enforcement under "tremendous pressure" at border Alan Scaia © Provided by RADIO.COM The Texas attorney general toured the border around McAllen Wednesday with local, state and federal law enforcement. Ken Paxton says agencies are "limited by federal law and what the federal government are doing." "I'm here to call attention to Texans and the American people that this is a problem," Paxton says. "The way we are dealing with it is not working. The very things that worked so well during the last few years that curtailed this have been totally taken ...

Incumbent Bastrop school board member Kellye Seekatz and challenger Joseph B. Thompson faced off in a candidate forum Monday night and discussed their priorities for the district over the next four years.  The Place 2 race is the only contested school board seat in the May 1 election. Rick Rivera, who is running for the Place 1 seat, is running unopposed. Rivera was appointed to the Place 1 seat in January to replace James Allen, who resigned in December after accepting a job in Arkansas.  During the hour-long candidate forum Monday, Seekatz and Thompson discussed  a wide range of s...