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Texans’ belief in their state’s exceptionalism has helped fuel support for the Republican state government trying to take border security and immigration enforcement into its own hands.
More than 40 migrants arrived by bus from Texas to Los Angeles, the latest move in a Republican campaign of sending busloads of people who cross the U.S. border to Democratic-held areas.
Less than a week remains in the legislative session. Despite Gov. Greg Abbott’s commitment to school choice this year, some legislators are still wondering what will happen to rural schools under a policy that gives parents choices over how and where their children learn. Will additional private education choices force a mass exodus from assigned schools in these areas? Or everywhere across the state?
It is beyond dispute that the situation at the southern border is a crisis of monumental proportions.
Fueled by conspiracy theories, white extremists are targeting migrants and other groups, according to Homeland Security and local watchdog groups.