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Immigration provides a key part of the U.S. workforce. But there's disagreement about how to regulate immigration and employment, and how to enforce immigration laws. Representatives Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) and Matt Rosendale (R-MT) provide some insight into America's options for ensuring workers and employers are acting within the law.
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HOUSTON - The unprovoked Russian invasion of sovereign Ukraine has triggered condemnation from Houston area Congressional leaders in the strongest possible terms.
"The Russians need to feel pain for this," said Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX). "This is completely barbaric behavior on the part of the Russians. It's barbaric."
WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — Two members of the Texas congressional delegation joined 34 other lawmakers in signing a letter this week to the director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, expressing concern about the country's continued expulsion of migrants who cross the border.
It has been over a year and seven months since Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen was reported missing.
Her disappearance and murder hit the Latino community in Houston especially hard. Many of them serve in our military and many of them have children serving. Vanessa's tragic death sparked a movement and reforms that otherwise would have been swept under the rug. As we have called for investigations and uncovered the truth behind her death, one thing is clear:
The Army failed Vanessa Guillen.
WASHINGTON — Historic reforms to how the military handles reports of crimes including sexual assault and murder are headed to President Joe Biden's desk to be signed into law, spurred by mistakes at Fort Hood, where Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén was killed last year by a fellow soldier.
With cabinet positions dwindling, President-elect Biden has yet to select a Latina for one of the top positions in the White House.
Fourteen U.S. Army leaders, including commanders and other leaders at Fort Hood, have been fired or suspended in an effort to correct a yearslong culture of sexual assault and a pattern of violence at the base, Army officials said Tuesday.
That climate — which failed to prioritize the health and wellbeing of soldiers, particularly female soldiers — was detailed in a damning 150-page report released Tuesday after a year of startling and tragic deaths at the Central Texas installation.
Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia and fellow Democrats, Veronica Escobar, of El Paso, and Jason Crow, of Aurora, Colo., are seeking to halt transfers of people between Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities and other federal, state and local prisons to prevent the spread of COVID, according to a news release.
The Houston lawmaker announced their bill, the End Transfers of Detained Immigrants Act, is aimed at slowing transmission of COVID-19, is backed by 63 immigrant rights groups,
In March 2020, Congress passed the CARES Act, which authorized Economic Impact Payments (EIPs), also known as "stimulus checks," to help provide direct economic relief to families suffering from the impacts of COVID-19.