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TEXAS — Families are fleeing home to protect their children. These aren't refugees from war-torn countries, they're Texans. Since the Texas Legislature passed numerous laws restricting trans rights, families have considered moving out of state.
Spectrum News 1 has learned after Gov. Greg Abbott's directive to investigate gender-affirming care for trans children as child abuse, even more families are planning to say goodbye to their home state.
We've spoken to nonprofit groups and transgender community members who connected us to families that are considering moving, in the process of moving or have already moved. From what we've heard, those numbers are in the dozens, but most likely include more. And depending on what happens next, it could get much worse.
Baylor College of Medicine hosted U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) for a check presentation from the Congressional Community Project Funding program that will support Baylor and Harris Health's long-COVID care clinics. The funding is part of the Bipartisan Omnibus Appropriations Bill.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Texas Democratic delegation in Congress want President Biden to intervene to stop Gov. Greg Abbott's decision to impede commercial truck traffic heading north out of Mexico.
Abbott told Texas Department of Public Safety troopers to inspect all northbound trucks as soon as they had crossed commercial land ports in Texas. He said this was to improve border security and check the safety of the trucks. The trucks have already been inspected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
In their letter, the Democratic members of Congress describe Abbott's policy directive as a "political stunt."
Baylor College of Medicine on Wednesday was awarded $1.1 million from the federal government to open a new long-COVID clinic in the Houston area.
Baylor already operates a Post COVID Care Clinic at the McNair campus in the Texas Medical Center. The funds will help the medical school expand services to uninsured patients at Harris Health System's Strawberry Clinic, located in East Harris County.
Public health experts predict long COVID will be one of most apparent remnants of the pandemic, even as virus transmission dwindles. It encompasses a wide range of new, returning or ongoing health problems that people may experience more than four weeks after their initial COVID infection, according to the American Medical Association. Brain fog, muscle fatigue, loss of taste, chest pain, heart problems and, in some cases, depression have been linked to the diagnosis.
In reaction to US sanctions against State Duma members, Russia blacklisted 398 members of the US House of Representatives. This was reported on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website on Wednesday, April 13.
"In response to the next" wave "of anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the Administration of George Biden on March 24 this year against 328 deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, which, taking into account the Russian parliamentarians previously blacklisted, makes up almost its entire composition, "mirror" sanctions restrictions are being introduced against 398 members of the House of Representatives of the US Congress," the agency said in a statement.
A new funding project that's a part of the Bipartisan Omnibus Appropriations Bill doled out over $10 million to health care institutions — and a Houston initiative is cashing in on a chunk of that funding.
Baylor College of Medicine and Harris Health's long-COVID care clinics received $1.1 million from the the Congressional Community Project Funding program. U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) attended the check presentation of the funding, as did Harris Health CEO Dr. Esmaeil Porsa, BCM President, CEO, and Executive Dean Dr. Paul Klotman, and Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Sima Ladjevardian.
EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — El Paso Representative Veronica Escobar sent a letter to President Biden urging him to address Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's commercial vehicle inspection policy at the border.
The letter, which was co-signed by the entire Texas Democratic Congressional Delegation, comes on the heels of Governor Abbott's recent directive to increase inspections of commercial vehicles at land ports of entry.
WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — A bus carrying migrants from Texas arrived in Washington, D.C. this morning and a second bus is on the way, according to Gov. Greg Abbott.
The governor said the bus was filled with migrants from the countries of Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. It came from Del Rio, Texas, according to reports. There are men, women and children seeking asylum in the U.S.
Some of the migrants told WUSA, our sister station in D.C., that they had plenty of food and water during the more than 30-hour trip. Some already had secondary stops planned out.
A second bus arrived in D.C. at about 3:30 a.m. Thursday.
Breonna Randall has never seen the vice president speak. The twenty-something college senior is sitting in the front row of Cramton Auditorium at Howard University, where she's a month from graduation. In a few minutes, alumna Kamala Harris will approach the lectern in the same auditorium in which she attended freshman orientation 40 years ago, but befitted differently from her collegiate days, in a navy pantsuit and her signature black pearls. "We all love homecomings, don't we?" she says to the group of about 100, who've gathered in honor of an expanded Small Business Administration program. "And this is a homecoming for me to be on this stage," she adds. "In many ways, this is where it all started."
On Wednesday morning, Abbott announced the first bus dropped migrants off between the U.S. Capitol and Union Station. A Spectrum News camera was rolling as migrants arrived.
Busing migrants from Texas to the nation's capital is just one of the measures Abbott put in place in response to the Biden administration ending the Trump-era Title 42, a policy which limits the number of asylum seekers permitted into the country in order to curb the spread of COVID-19. That program is scheduled to end in May.
It's anticipated that Title 42 ending will lead to an uptick in migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.
Abbott ordered the Texas Division of Emergency Management to charter buses in order to transport the migrants. Abbott's office later clarified that the bus trips are entirely voluntary and no migrant can be made to board a bus.