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EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) — Members of the United States Judiciary Committee are meeting in El Paso to discuss issues regarding immigration and violence in our country linked to racism.
The meeting comes one month after the Cielo Vista Walmart shooting and the announcement that arrests at the United States border have decreased significantly in the last couple of months.
As reports of racist attacks spike and the nation continues to reel from the El Paso massacre that police are investigating as a hate crime as well as the latest Odessa shooting, Houston and San Antonio legislators agree there is a problem in Texas and the U.S.
Thesolution, however, varies depending on who you ask.
At Kashmere High School, Houston ISD administrators and community members touted the school's profound turnaround—earning a passing grade on the state's rating system for the first time in almost a decade.
"With the right support, we have changed the narrative," interim Superintendent Grenita Lathan told the audience Aug. 15.
On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship will hold a field hearing in El Paso, TX on Friday, September 6th, 2019 focusing on conditions along the southern border and the violence aimed at immigrant communities.
The hearing is open to the public and will take place at UTEP's El Paso Natural Gas Conference Center at 10 a.m.
Democrats voiced frustration over their blocked gun-control agenda after Saturday's shootings in West Texas, with one 2020 presidential candidate tweeting the situation was "f---ed up."
There has been a dramatic surge in measles cases in Europe, placing lives at risk.
There has been a dramatic surge in measles cases in Europe, placing lives at risk.
HOUSTON - On Sept. 15, 2015, two students were killed when the Houston Independent School District school bus they were traveling in was struck by a car, sending it over 610 South Loop.
The bus was headed to Furr High School when the crash sent it through the guardrail of 610 South, where it landed on its side at the intersection of Telephone Road and 610 South Loop.
WASHINGTON — Texans have been waiting a year and a half for more than $4 billion in disaster recovery money Congress approved after Hurricane Harvey and major floods the two years before. They'll have to wait several months more, but the federal government finally cleared a major hurdle toward sending the cash on Friday.
President Donald Trump's views on immigration are hard to pin down.
He is a longtime critic of illegal immigration and has embraced a draconian approach to enforcement of our nation's laws concerning unauthorized entry. But it's increasingly hard to believe that he's committed to upholding the law — or that he supports legal immigration, as he has often insisted.