A Texas district attorney is seeking to overturn Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s pardon of Daniel Perry, a U.S. Army sergeant who was convicted of murdering a Black Lives Matter protester in 2020. Travis County District Attorney José Garza announced Tuesday that his office will file a writ of mandamus petition to the Texas Criminal Court […]
Prominent Texas political figures from both sides of the aisle reacted to the news that Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned Daniel Perry after a unanimous recommendation from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles was announced Thursday. Perry was sentenced to 25 years in prison in May 2023 for the murder of 28-year-old Garrett Foster. Foster […]
EAGLE PASS, Texas — For many months, the small border city of Eagle Pass, Texas, has provided the backdrop for a bitter legal battle between Gov. Greg Abbott and the Biden administration over how best to handle record numbers of migrants arriving at the border. The court fights, which intensified this past week, have centered […]
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has witnessed over 6 million migrants entering the United States from the southern border under the Biden administration, and a large percentage of them are coming through Texas. In response, the state’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, has taken matters into his own hands. In March 2021, he launched Operation […]
During a radio interview last week, Gov. Greg Abbott said that Texas has used every tool to control the border short of ordering officers to shoot migrants crossing over illegally, once again drawing concerns about the potential impact of his rhetoric around immigration. “The only thing that we’re not doing is we’re not shooting people […]
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams issued an executive order Wednesday to restrict the flow of migrant charter buses sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to New York City. Adams said the order mandates any buses carrying migrants arrive in the city only between 8:30 a.m. and noon on weekdays. The buses’ arrival must also […]