If the Alamo City office continues its current pace, its number of arrests will rise 60% over last year, a New York Times data analysis shows. The post San Antonio’s ICE field office conducted agency’s fourth-highest number of arrests this year appeared first on San Antonio Current.
Texas’ Republican-backed book banning law, Senate Bill 13, is rearing its head in the San Antonio suburb of New Braunfels this month as the school district there pulled more than 1,500 titles from school library shelves. Some of those books subjected to New Braunfels ISD’s ban include memoirs by former President Barack Obama and Texas […]
U.S. Vice President JD Vance is visiting Texas this week for high-dollar fundraisers ahead of of an expected 2028 presidential run. The Republican National Convention fundraisers, where attendance runs $100,000, will take place in Austin and Dallas, and they’re being hosted by some of the party’s deepest-pocketed donors, including Austin billionaire and Palantir co-founder Joe […]
Only 100 people are currently detained in the federal government’s controversy-plagued family detention center at Dilley, nonprofit news outlet ProPublica reports. That compares to an average daily population of more than 900 in January. The Current first reported on a sharp drop in the immigrant prison camp’s population on March 10, when U.S. Rep. Joaquin […]
National Cocktail Day arrives on Tuesday, March 24, which sounds like a good excuse for a tipple. But isn’t any day a good excuse for a tipple? In honor of the upcoming food holiday, the Current spoke to several San Antonio bartenders to spotlight the stories behind their spirits — and to celebrate the creativity and […]
Trump administration officials revised a document advising how ICE officers should interact with parents, removing the word ‘humane.’ The post Trump has detained the parents of more than 11,000 U.S. citizen kids appeared first on San Antonio Current.
Retiring Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales was captured on video over the weekend engaging in a verbal confrontation with Luz Elena Chapa, one of the fellow Democrats seeking to fill his office. The confrontation happened Saturday morning at a Northwest Democrats meeting that offered Chapa and run-off rival Jane Davis a forum to discuss […]
Bad Takes is a column of opinion and analysis. “For those who have spent time in and around rural Texas today, barbed wire is an often overlooked fact of life. Learning to navigate around it, and getting nicked by it, is part of growing up,” writes author David Griscom in his new book The Myth […]
With consumer prices rising due to the United States and Israel’s war with Iran, interest in renewables and EVs is rising. Misinformation may be holding consumers back. The post How the Iran war reveals the extent of fossil fuel propaganda appeared first on San Antonio Current.
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, launched an investigation into the discrepancy between reported and observed methane pollution from the Permian Basin—the largest-producing oil field in the United States […]