Texas Republicans intensified their attacks against Islam this week, playing on unfounded concerns that the state’s 300,000 Muslims are financing terrorist organizations and wish to implement Sharia Law here. On Friday, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick formally named “preventing Sharia law in Texas” among the state Senate’s top priorities in the 2027 legislative session. “Only state […]
The identities of the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents who shot and killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis were revealed in a ProPublica report — and both men are from Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. Government records identify the pair who fired on Pretti as Border Patrol Agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection […]
Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy detained in Minneapolis and sent to a detention center near San Antonio was released Saturday along with his father, according to U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro. The father and son are now back home in the Twin Cities, tweeted Castro, a San Antonio Democrat who pushed for their release. […]
The casual Italian eatery had been a Southtown staple for 30 years. The post San Antonio’s long-running La Focaccia Italian Grill has closed appeared first on San Antonio Current.
Nearly 100 demonstrators caravanned to the site southwest of San Antonio to call for the release of all children being held at immigration detention facilities. The post What we saw as anti-ICE activists demonstrated Sunday outside the Dilley detention center appeared first on San Antonio Current.
After a week of public outcry over the South Texas Family Residential Center’s treatment of young children behind its walls, the Dilley facility is experiencing a measles outbreak, according to immigration attorney Eric Lee. Lee, who went viral last week for capturing the moment a protest broke out inside the facility, told the Current that […]
With ballots tallied from all but a handful of voting centers, Rehmet had 57% of the vote, besting the 43% for his GOP opponent, Leigh Wambsganss, who had a massive spending advantage. The post Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins solidly red Texas Senate seat in stunning special election upset appeared first on San Antonio Current.
Because who doesn’t enjoy seeing the state’s most pathetic politicians mocked in verse? The post The week’s San Antonio and Texas news — in limericks appeared first on San Antonio Current.
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery on Saturday morning issued a ruling demanding the release of 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy Liam Conjeo Ramos and his father by Tuesday from the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, the Express-News reports. Biery’s ruling said the case against Ramos and his father “has its genesis in the ill-conceived […]
Under Texas’ “enforcement discretion” policy, companies were allowed to vent or burn off pollutants, as long as they are reported. Recent weatherization requirements for power plants did not apply to gas processing plants. The post Texas oil, gas and petrochem facilities emitted 1.6 million pounds of regulated pollutants during last week’s icy weather appeared first […]