Texas governor, lieutenant governor ramp up attacks on state’s Muslim community

Texas Republicans intensified their attacks against Islam this week, playing on unfounded concerns that the state’s 300,000 Muslims are financing terrorist organizations and wish to implement Sharia Law here.​ On Friday, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick formally named “preventing Sharia law in Texas” among the

Both CBP agents who shot Alex Pretti hailed from South Texas

The identities of the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents who shot and killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis were revealed in a ProPublica report — and both men are from Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. Government records identify the pair who fired on Pretti as Border Patrol Agent Jesus Ochoa and

5-year-old Liam Ramos back home in Minneapolis after judge orders his release

Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy detained in Minneapolis and sent to a detention center near San Antonio was released Saturday along with his father, according to U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro. The father and son are now back home in the Twin Cities, tweeted Castro, a San Antonio Democrat

What we saw as anti-ICE activists demonstrated Sunday outside the Dilley detention center

Nearly 100 demonstrators caravanned to the site southwest of San Antonio to call for the release of all children being held at immigration detention facilities. The post What we saw as anti-ICE activists demonstrated Sunday outside the Dilley detention center appeared first on San Antonio Current.