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The son of the Texas sheriff who last week railed against undocumented immigrants from a White House podium, saying many are “ drunks (who) will run over your children, and they will run over my children,” has been arrested for public intoxication and indecent exposure.
Tarrant County sheriff’s son arrested on indecent exposure
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OK. As an Afrikaner South African: This issue is blown up by the alt-right and dark-web that after Charlottesville and Dylann Roof gained some sort of false legitimacy: “This was the province of Stormfront five, 10 years ago, white genocide in SA.” (1)
I have asked Secretary of State
@SecPompeo
to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. “South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers.”
@TuckerCarlson
@FoxNews
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This is false.
@realDonaldTrump
had a blanket policy to separate parents & kids at the border, incl. kids as young as 18 months and some who were still breastfeeding. It started in El Paso, as I first reported a year ago, 6 months before national outlets.
.
@60Minutes
did a phony story about child separation when they know we had the exact same policy as the Obama Administration. In fact a picture of children in jails was used by other Fake Media to show how bad (cruel) we are, but it was in 2014 during O years. Obama separated....
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Border Patrol agents arrested Esteban Pastor and prosecuted him for coming back into the country illegally. They took away his 18-month-old son, telling him he was 'somewhere in Texas.' Three months later, the father was deported. Alone. via
@HoustonChron
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.
@DHSOIG
asked ICE not to deport a key witness to sexual assault. Lawyers say she was threatened & requested her release. OIG reversed course. Now she's gone.
"How can we take this investigation seriously?"
(Correct IG tagged -story always had it right!)
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She is a crucial witness into sexual assault in ICE detention.
@OIGatHHS
asked ICE not to deport her. Lawyers requested her release, saying she was threatened.
OIG reversed course. Now she's gone.
"How can we possibly take this investigation seriously?"
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NEW: We obtained the 911 calls & police radio traffic during the
#Uvalde
school shooting, which police for 5 months refused to disclose. What they reveal is some officers knew students were likely in danger, yet did not immediately act (1/10)
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Still floored by this:
“Families of residents were not notified before the drugs were administered, but nursing home operators were in the process of notifying them Monday, Armstrong said.”
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A record +14K immigrant children spent Thanksiving in federal shelters, incl. +5.6K in TX. Not because more are coming, but the govnt is detaining them for twice as long as average, 75 days as of Aug. In part, their family is afraid to get them b/c of ICE
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For months, lawyers searched for thousands of migrant kids expelled under a US order against COVID. They found three dozen. Kids vanish into a secretive system, not issued a main tracking number for migrants. They’re quickly returned-'no one can find them'
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A Houston Mexican restaurant kept requiring masks despite
@GregAbbott_TX
lifting the statewide requirement. Within hours, they received messages on social media & emails threatening to call ICE & saying their green cards should be checked
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@EmmaBalter
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One of the twin brothers accused in the fatal shooting of one migrant and injuring another, had, until this week, overseen a West TX ICE detention facility, where complaints at one point were so serious prosecutors involved the FBI
@rdevro
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One of the many experiences I will specifically remember from
@katierosemiller
is when she told me the US was not separating kids under 5 and I then came to her with this story of an 18 month old separated during the pilot the US denied :
Forever thankful for the Trump-Pence administration, because of the last four years, we became a family of three.
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ICE guards in an El Paso detention center sexually assaulted & harassed migrants in 'pattern' of abuse, lawyers say. They 'forcibly' kissed & touched one in areas not visible to cameras, saying 'no one would believe her.' They offered another $ for sex.
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Since I've been a reporter in TX, the state's 2 GOP govs have pushed surges to 'secure' the border, spending billions in taxpayer $, but in 20 years no is able to say what that has achieved.
@TxDPS
&
@GregAbbott_TX
can't even provide a list of all the ops.
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"This is perhaps the first global crisis in more than a century where no one is even looking to the United States for leadership."
Trump begins the April 23
#TrumpPressBriefing
by claiming that he's spoken with unnamed "numerous" world leaders over the past two days and "they are saying we are leading the way" in the coronavirus response. (The US has the most cases and the most deaths.)
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Chaos. Everywhere. From the government & advocates trying to house and reunite children with their parents, to federal courts dropping charges.
'I am not convinced they have a plan.'
via
@HoustonChron
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This is a FALSE AND WRONG NARRATIVE. And it is absolutely spread by people on the alt-right.
Taylor told his guest, “We think of whites in South Africa as a canary in the coalmine” and as bellwethers for “the future Africanisation of the planet”.
(2)
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"They say, ‘No, you need to be a parent. But then it’s like, ‘We don’t care if you’re a healthy parent."
"It's like, ‘Have that baby, but then we're throwing you to the wolves.'"
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This is Briana.
@CBP
took her from her dad at the border in March. US attorneys accused him, w/o presenting evidence, of being MS-13. He had been deported from the US at 18. A year after Trump 'ended' his separation policy, +700 kids have been separated.
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Land reform is a serious issue. We all remember Zimbabwe. But trying to portray white South African farmers as refugees is ridiculous when you won't even let anyone in from Syria ( about four dozen Syrians arrived this fiscal year.)
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1) it’s legal to ask for asylum, even if you cross illegally 2) is just a ridiculous assertion Senator. I mean really. There has been no evidence to suggest that either Ds or Rs or anyone funded an organic growth of migrants who are walking across Mexico.
Two basic Qs every reporter should ask Beto today: (1) should the “caravan” be allowed to cross illegally into Texas? (Beto refuses to answer.) And (2) did your campaign dollars illegally fund their doing so?
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This is Blanca. She was one of hundred of parents separated from their children in a secretive 2017 El Paso pilot, in which the government threatened to prosecute parents who tried to fight back for human smuggling (1)
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.
@GregAbbott_TX
says he will not consent to refugee resettlement, huge for Texas, which resettles the most refugees in the country and has for years.
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The Texas House committee found Slaton, a married former youth minister
* did not deny he had sex with his 19yo intern & gave her alcohol
* did not express regret
* refused to resign
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@zachdespart
@RenzoDowney
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In 2018, I wrote about Cavazos’ fight to retain his land. Trump’s border fence would slice through his home, cutting off the waterfront.
‘They’ll find a way to get over it. So why should I give up my home?’
Today
@JoeBiden
admin seized the property.
This morning in Texas, the
@JoeBiden
Administration seized the property of the Cavazos family for
#borderwall
construction, after being granted possession via court order. We are outraged. This outcome was avoidable had the administration simply dismissed the case outright. (1/4)
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Honored and stunned by this and so grateful to work in a newsroom like
@HoustonChron
that values ambitious work and with such awesome, talented, and lovely colleagues. Thank you so much everyone! This means so much.
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This kind of rhetoric is dangerous & hurts race relations in South Africa, never mind America. Land reform is an issue, and a concern. White farm murders in South Africa are a problem, though they pale to murders overall. Compared to the worldwide refugee crisis, it is small.
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It is also damaging to the democracy of South Africa, where fractured race relations were seriously endangered by race-baiting tactics playing on similar fears to further profits of an international company
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I know everyone’s focused on the never ending presidential race but this !!! story about the Texas Attorney General who has already under indictment for FIVE years BEFORE this latest scandal that spurred his top staff to resign and now includes a woman he had an affair with is 👀
New:
@KenPaxtonTX
had an extramarital affair with a woman whom he later recommended for a job with the wealthy donor now at the center of criminal allegations against him, two people who said Paxton told them about the relationship told
@AP
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Living in Houston is just the biggest rollercoaster ride ever. Seven years ago I was awaiting Hurricane Harvey with just this same eerily quiet vibes. 🤞
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The # of South Africans caught entering by
@CBP
across ENTIRE southern border is so small it's not tracked on monthly updates including 20 top nationalities. But for 2020 it was 6; 2019, 4; 2018, 4; 2017, 5; 0 in 2016.
Since the variant Thursday, almost no way to get to border.
Biden banned travel from South Africa because of the new Covid variant.
Immigrants have recently been apprehended crossing our border illegally from South Africa.
Biden is doing nothing to stop immigrants from South Africa entering illegally.
Pure politics and hypocrisy.
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Roof had a Rhodesian flag FOR REASON. 'The talk among people in the alt-right and the broader white supremacist movement is about the need for a white ethno-state. When you praise Rhodesia, in this context, what you’re praising is violence to that end'
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Some of them may be. It is complicated. But when the administration is curtailing asylum & refugee admissions on all fronts, & when this issue, though legitimate, is overblown on
@TuckerCarlson
it is very disturbing to then see the president repeat words from that skewed playbook
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This IS a crisis: but of migrant families largely turning themselves in, and a broken asylum and immigration court system.
The president has been pushing this false connection between hard drugs, terrorists and a wall for days. Still false on Day 21.
Humanitarian Crisis at our Southern Border. I just got back and it is a far worse situation than almost anyone would understand, an invasion! I have been there numerous times - The Democrats, Cryin’ Chuck and Nancy don’t know how bad and dangerous it is for our ENTIRE COUNTRY....
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The father waited two decades to bring his kids here 'the right way.' For three years they have been in Houston schools, even taking AP classes. Now that the Trump administration rescinded the program, they face deportation this month. Pics:
@godovasquez
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Really sad to be leaving my immensely talented colleagues
@HoustonChron
, especially THE BEST editor
@_SusanCarroll
, but very excited for new adventures at
@propublica
@TexasTribune
w/
@manny_garcia1
&
these inspiring journos. I'll stay in Houston, doing immigration, so send tips!
Welcome to
@KiahCollier
,
@ViannaDavila
,
@lomikriel
,
@Perla_Trevizo
and
@JinATX
, who will be joining our exciting new joint newsroom with
@TexasTribune
as investigative reporters!
Let’s do this 💪
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WOW. Fed judge expands class to all parents separated from their children after the El Paso pilot began in July 2017, as I first reported. Judge doesn’t immediately rule on remedy, but this is huge. The govnt said including them would ‘blow case into some other galaxy of task’
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This absolutely is not intended to undermine the very difficult time white South African farmers have. It is a problem. Fixing 40 years of a racist state is hard. But this kind of rhetoric risks security there at a time when South Africa finally has a new president after Zuma.
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That is not to say that there aren't serious problems with white farmers and land reform, which makes this even more tragic. The AfriForum Research Institute collected statistics for 2016/17: 357 attacks and 74 murders
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.
@NBCNews
confirms our report from 7 months ago () that a pilot
#FamilySeparation
program began in
#Texas
last July. Cites most of the same stuff we had then, adding in numbers I requested last fall from
@CBP
&
@ACFHHS
through FOIA but have yet to be given.
Numbers provided by the Department of Homeland Security show that 1,768 children were separated from their parents between October 2016 and February 2018, bringing the total number of separated kids to more than 4,100.
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PSA that local/statewide media is often on the ball way way before national pubs. As they should be. But yes, family separations began last fall in El Paso area/ New Mexico. We reported on it then. That national media is now outraged is good, but we’ve been saying this for while.
@lomikriel
@HoustonChron
OMG, this was discovered that long ago and the public was not notified by MSM? How could they not have picked this
@HoustonCron
article? Thank you for sharing.
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Wondering what will kill me faster in Houston: flooding, over heating, chemical spills, toxic air, or death by OFF mosquito repellent overexposure.
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Good morning! Today is officially my first day at
@propublica
@TexasTribune
. Please be in touch with tips, questions: lomi.kriel
@propublica
.org. Cell is same. Pretty lonely here in the ol' home office on county lockdown, so holas are also nice :) Keep safe and stay home, amicis.
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Sad news. Ann Criswell, food editor at the
@HoustonChron
for 30 years, died today from COVID. She was instrumental in getting out news about a COVID-filled nursing home facility in College Station earlier in the pandemic.
by
@gregmorago
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Matachines dancers pay tribute at El Paso massacre memorial in traditional Mexican dance honoring the Virgen de Guadalupe
#elpasostrong
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I’m on the tail end of the
#HarrisVotes
surge, but participating in democracy felt GREAT! 24 hours voting tonight Houston!
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Seems like this should have happened way prior to *today* no?
On briefing call,
@SecBlinken
told senators admin's looking at "short circuiting" special immigrant visas to speed evacuation of Afghan allies, sources tell me. In-person interviews not possible from Kabul airport, but 20k in pipeline—*if* can get to airport and flights continue.
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In that time period, there were about 19,000 murders across South Africa. (4)
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Tragic. The president claimed this week COVID is nothing to fear and that he feels better than he did 20 years ago, but one councilwoman in San Antonio lost SEVEN members of her family to the virus. Yes, SEVEN.
New: City Councilwoman
@DrAdrianaD4
has lost 7 family members to Covid-19.
The tragedy that befell her family demonstrates the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on Latinos & low-income residents in San Antonio -- and across the nation.
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.
@Starbucks
stopped selling newspapers in stores, so
@HoustonChron
bosses stopped selling its coffee in our newsroom. Now we are getting free coffee of a different brand (& cups so we don’t waste paper!) Instead of a $6 latte, subscribe for $8 a month!
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Their dad disappeared in Mexico, where they awaited their US asylum case. The girls, 8 and 11, crossed into TX to find their mom. Now the govt wants to deport them to no one. Since March, it has tried to remove 15 such kids in new 'pattern' during pandemic
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Speechless, super grateful for a fantastic team, and devastated that this reporting was ever necessary. (Also our orgs continue fighting for records)
So so proud of this collaboration on the Uvalde massacre.
@propublica
@TexasTribune
@frontlinepbs
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This is what
@BenjaminEW
wrote about the sheriff’s presser with ICE last week, noting
@CatoInstitute
analysis finding unauthorized immigrants are 47 % less likely to be convicted of a crime than native-born Americans.
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This is what Trump’s
@cbp
practice of “metering” asylum seekers at border leads to:
,Óscar Martínez, frustrated because the family from El Salvador were unable to present themselves to U.S. authorities & request asylum, swam across the river with his daughter.
@lajornadaonline
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I often get reader mail saying, ‘they should have come here the right way.’
In this case the boys came here on a legal program Trump killed after they arrived.
Now I’m getting: ‘Laws can be changed & those here under false circumstances have to return.’
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Stunning that family separation & immigration has played no role in this election. On either side. This story blows me away and tracks w/ what NYT reported from IG investigation and what I reported on in 2017 about what we now know as the separation pilot:
NEW: Federal prosecutors who ran a 2017 family separation “pilot program” determined kids should be given a maturity test to confirm they could find their way back to parents on their own, DOJ memo obtained by
@NBCNews
says. With
@JuliaEAinsley
.
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Honored to be awarded the Collier Prize for government accountability for our team’s Uvalde reporting & hope that it keeps attention on the devastating failures that day, the warnings they should send every community, & the lack of accountability & transparency 2 years later. 🧵
So proud of
@lomikriel
@LChurchilll
@zachdespart
on accepting the Collier Prize for their coverage of the Uvalde Massacre at tonight’s
#WHCD
@propublica
@TexasTribune
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Just spoke to someone who said they would “rather die of COVID than take the vaccine” and offered to show me a “very important video on YouTube explaining why” so the outlook for next year appears .. on track with 2020.
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Please explain how an "unbiased" photo of an asylum-seeking mother's reunification with her 5-year-old daughter after 9 months in prison would look.
Press has an agenda. Yes the photos are “stunning”. They highlight bias.
#BuildTheWall
#Emergency
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It is similar when you talk about white South African farmers as refugees when you are cutting refugees. Some of them may have legitimate claims because this is a serious and complicated issue. But what you are really doing is sending a message, whether you know it or not.
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I will never get over national TV reporters and documentary filmmakers reaching out to ask for your very specific contacts on competitive stories plus others you have not yet written about with extremely specific requirements - as if you work for them. It is really something.
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1/ More states mandate active shooter training for kids in schools than police expected to respond.
@LChurchilll
& I published these requirements by state, part of 20 months
@propublica
@texastribune
investigated Uvalde. Here's what else we found: (🧵)
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Trump claimed Democrats released a convicted cop killer from Mexico and let him back in the country. In fact, tent city Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, a Republican whom Trump pardoned, released him, and he appeared to re-enter the US under President George W. Bush.
#factsmatter
Important context on Trump's inflammatory Twitter ad: The convicted killer he mentions was released early by Joe Arpaio's office and illegally returned to the US during George W Bush's administration. Democrats had nothing to do with it
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.
@GregAbbott_TX
hailed SCOTUS' abortion decision, saying TX prioritized supporting expectant mothers to 'choose life.’ He did not say TX lags behind 33 states & DC in extending postpartum care to 12 months &
#txlege
had a chance to do so, but halved it
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UPDATED: Afghan translator who worked with U.S. military still detained at George Bush airport. His family was released while he asks for asylum.
@cbp
now tells his lawyers, Congress, that his visa was revoked ‘’mid-air.’ Advocates say that’s baffling.
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Everyone has stopped talking, including
@TxDPS
@GregAbbott_TX
Uvalde ISD and police,
@CBP
, and the Uvalde district attorney. All open records requests taken to the AG. Reporters now must rely on make no mistake strategic leaks.
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I’ve aimed my entire life (literally since I was 2) to be a morning person but feel night people shouldn’t be so looked down upon. Night people please raise your hands.
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There is finally a lot of interest in the 2017 El Paso family separation pilot because of the 545 kids whose parents advocates have not yet been able to find. This horrific outcome was predictable. The govnt refused to acknowledge the pilot and delayed releasing info on parents.
I remain grateful that
@lomikriel
broke the Trump administration child separation story in
@HoustonChron
back in 2017. An incredibly important piece of journalism. Read it here ⬇️
#Debates2020
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Secretary Nielsen's claim is simply not true. Esteban Pastor was deported without his 18-month-old in October 2017 and had no idea where his toddler was for MONTHS. That's just one parent I spoke to. The Inspector General has estimated 'thousands' more.
This is a lie 👇🏽
Nielsen claims no parent was deported without ‘opportunities to take their children’ - The Washington Post
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New:
@aclu
asks judge overseeing family separations to order govnt halt the ongoing practice, saying +900, incl. babies, have been separated since injunction last summer. Our story in June had +700, often for questionable gang claims or criminal records.
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An owl just casually landed next to my glass door to chill because apparently I live in the wilderness and not in the middle of Montrose cc:
@John_Tedesco
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"I think we should definitely build that wall,” Cindy Hyde-Smith said. "We have to secure the borders...I have been in the Rio Grande River with a bullet proof vest and machine guns all around.”
Interesting, because I stood literally on the Rio Grande without either!
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In April,
@MarieDennise
& I met a beautiful El Paso family that illustrated the city's cross-border identity. () This week we were back reporting on the
#elpasoshooting
& were horrified to hear they were among the first victims.
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.
@TxDPS
@GregAbbott_TX
& other Uvalde and state agencies resist releasing records about the
#uvalde
shooting.
@propublica
@TexasTribune
filed +70 open records requests.
The public deserves to know what went wrong.
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Super thrilled to report that both my mom, a 69 yo healthcare worker, and my sister, a surgeon in a hospital, have received 1/2 of their vaccines! Finally a bit of hope in this grim year.
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SOS!
A former Houston police captain ran his SUV into the truck of an AC repairman, convinced it contained 750K fraudulent ballots.
He said he was part of a 'civilian investigation' into 'Hispanic children' signing ballots b/c their fingerprints 'would not appear in databases.'
Prosecutors: A former HPD captain faces assault charges after accosting an A/C repairman at gunpoint who he believed was involved in a ballot fraud scheme
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Texas'
@GovAbbott
& his campaign claimed his +$3 billion
#OperationLoneStar
seized 887 lbs of fentanyl. False. In the 63 counties
@TxDPS
included as Lone Star, DPS found 160 lbs. Here are other examples where TX leaders misrepresented claims of success:
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How is Roberts so confused on such an important point? One of the attorneys in court today, who himself has DACA, literally represented a Dreamer who ICE under Trump tried to deport.
by:
@JonathanBlitzer
Wow, this is...not at all accurate.
Obama spent 2010-2011 claiming he wasn't deporting DREAMers. DREAMers were officially "low priority," but ICE field offices still deported them. The innovation of DACA was to create affirmative way to apply for protections.
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@CBP
Adding (11) that before publishing we reached out to families involved. We listened to concerns and adjusted. We informed others in Uvalde what was coming. We did everything possible, but ultimately this was a horrific tragedy & families also want answers.
We are selectively releasing audio excerpts from 13 emergency calls. Before doing so, we reached out to the families of children mentioned in our story. Some expressed worry at first. But by the end, all said they understood our decision and appreciated our openness.
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@GregAbbott_TX
Texas is the first and only state so far to opt it. One refugee resettlement org director who I just called and had not yet heard the news said, "You’re kidding me. Oh my god. I honestly need to process this. " The impact of this will be significant.
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This
@propublica
story that DHS is using secret gang databases to justify separating families bolsters what we reported several weeks ago: that hundreds of parents are still being removed from their kids because of suspect claims that often fall apart
.
@MelissaLaLinea
's first piece for
@propublica
is out & it is a doozy.
Turns out the DHS is using secretive gang databases to deny asylum claims. One migrant falsely accused of being in MS-13 was thrown in jail for 6 mos & separated from his children.
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I remember clearly when
@katiewaldman
said
@DHSgov
was no longer separating kids under 12 but the reports still kept pouring in.
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NEW: Police waited more than an hour to confront the Uvalde gunman & new records show not only how this delay scuttled medics’ rescue quest, but that communication lapses & muddled lines of authority among medical responders further hampered treatment.
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FBI and DHS Warned of Growing Threat From White Supremacists Months Ago
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This is among the most challenging & frustrating stories I've worked on. Read this thread for just a few reasons why.
@GregAbbott_TX
claimed thousands of arrests & drug busts to his border op. But data
@TxDPS
did release didn't back it.
@TXMilitary
gave 0. It costs +2.5 m a week.
For 9 months,
@ProPublica
@TexasTribune
@MarshallProject
have been trying to figure out what has been accomplished under Gov.
@GregAbbott_TX
newest multi-billion dollar border op.
Instead, we found limited data that makes it *very* difficult to measure results. For example:
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“Who failed Uvalde? DPS.” Quite the chant at
@UTAustin
yesterday as
@TxDPS
arrested student protestors. (DPS had the most police at Uvalde, 91, after
@CBP
, which had about 200.) Only a handful of DPS have been disciplined for their inaction at Robb.
Here’s the scene from the current focal point of the UT Austin protest off 22nd St. southwest of the Main Building
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A hip coffee shop next to expensive boutiques and art galleries across from a homeless encampment under the freeway
#houston
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Curious why this, which waxes lyrically about Texans' 'romantic spirit that mandates fearlessness' as embodying rush to reopen had NO mention of the 29yo Latina leader of TX biggest county (3rd largest in US) and its black mayor who waged near war over reopening & mandatory masks
Texas reopened ahead of nearly every other state in the union, becoming one of the nation’s first large-scale experiments in life — and death — after the coronavirus. Writer
@ebruenig
visited as the re-opening was in full swing.
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A wild story by
@JinATX
tells how Laredo struggled to gain enough tests, turning to an ER owner for help. Then the feds seized them.
@GregAbbott_TX
has encouraged physicians to pursue testing through private companies, but this shows what can go wrong.
Gov Greg Abbott says he’s concerned about infection rates in El Paso and Laredo area. While most other big counties are showing signs of leveling off, those areas are seeing greater increase
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This builds on our previous reporting that the chaotic police response, where officers waited 1 hour+ to confront the gunman, suffered from a leadership vacuum where no one took charge. Officers lacked & misunderstood basic info about what was going on.
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NEW: 'gut wrenching,' 'abdication of everything Texans claim to stand for' 'wrongly conflating border security, illegal immigration + refugee resettlement'
@GregAbbott_TX
makes TX first, only state to reject refugees, after 42 governors, 17 GOP, signed on
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At 12:12 p.m. a dispatcher broadcasted a child had reported being in “the room full of victims, full of victims at this moment,” 2 mins later an officer outside said “there’s victims in there, dude.” “We need to get in there,” one responded. No one did.
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The 911 calls from Robb Elementary and hundreds of police radio transmissions also show that some officers falsely believed no students were trapped inside with the gunman and were surprised to find multiple victims.
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In one instance, a DPS captain who just arrived on scene ordered a
@cbp
team about to breach the classrooms to stand by. But they entered & killed the gunman. 77 minutes after the shooting began, it ended because of the feds. (10)
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The border emergency: They fled Honduras after the 15yo was raped & her attackers burned down their house when discovering she was pregnant. They have been waiting at the TX bridge for weeks to request asylum but can't pay the $400 MX bribe to get to
@cbp
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Refugees are legal immigrants. And the most vetted foreigners coming into the United States.
@lomikriel
@GregAbbott_TX
I'm glade the Governor of Texas made this decision for my home State. Legal immigration is the right way. AJY
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Man, the DOJ’s Sarah Fabian has had to argue some ... rough cases in the past year. She also did a lot of the family separation litigation for the government.
A Trump official tried to argue that detained children don’t need soap, toothbrushes, or beds to be ‘safe and sanitary’ while in Border Patrol custody
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