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Unaccompanied migrant children are now being held in U.S. custody for more than twice as long, on average, than they were four years ago, according to government data.
In the 2015 fiscal year, officials with the Office of
Refugee Resettlement, the agency tasked with caring for unaccompanied minors, released children to sponsors within an average of 34 days. But in the first half of this fiscal year, that average jumped to 77 days.
Heard of Chrissy Houlahan? Of course not. Does the name Debbie Mucarsel-Powell ring a bell? Probably not. Veronica Escobar, Angie Craig, Jahana Hayes… never heard of them. But you've definitely heard of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Ilhan Omar.
Rep. Sylvia Garcia addressed concerns Thursday that the Democrats' multiple investigations into President Trump could hurt their party politically in upcoming elections: "It's about our democracy."
"There is a factor of that, that we have to consider, but what I think is important is this really is not about the polls, it's not about politics, it's not even about this one president. It's about our democracy. It's about the check and balances. It's about the way our entire system works," the Texas Democrat said on CNN's "Newsroom" show.
More than 20 Democratic lawmakers have recently asked a federal appeals court to invalidate President Donald Trump's pardon of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Like a lot of people, I've been jockeying between rage and despair over the state of our national government. But when I walk into Mary Gay Scanlon's Washington, D.C., office at 8 a.m. on a Tuesday in late February, I'm ready for a close and personal view of the mess, with something of a twist: I've come to spend the day with one of the Women in White.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Hundreds turned out for the LULAC District VIII Cinco de Mayo Parade Saturday in downtown Houston.
The parade started at the corner of Texas and Hamilton, next to Minute Maid Park and moved its way throughout the neighborhood as spectators waved flags, danced and cheered.
The parade celebrated our community's Mexican heritage with 2019 Grand Marshals, U.S. Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo.
Congressional Democrats are looking to put teeth back in the Voting Rights Act, six years after the Supreme Court gutted a key enforcement provision through its ruling in Shelby County v. Holder. Members of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the issue at Houston's Texas Southern University on Friday.
For two years now, Democratic leaders have urged those demanding President Donald Trump's impeachment to wait for the findings of the special counsel, Robert Mueller.
As we get closer and closer to the 2020 Presidential Elections — only about a year and a half to go, but who's counting? — our newsfeed is flooded with announcements of impending presidential campaigns and promises for change. And while several of these candidates and their political platforms are giving us hope for a better future and making us think (and re-think) what it will take to bring about real change in this country, we're also thinking about who we would want to see sitting in the oval office in just a couple of years.
WASHINGTON - Amid the growing power struggle between Congress and the White House, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, intends to press for legislation that could land a candidate or staff member in jail for five years for working with a foreign agent.