El Paso Launches Site To Track Illegal Immigrants

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El Paso has launched a new online migrant dashboard as over 60,000 illegal border crossers have passed through the overwhelmed Texas city in the last six months.

The city’s new Migrant Situational Awareness Dashboard provides weekly statistics on the number of migrant encounters reported by federal agencies as well as data on those released into the community and the number of migrants provided services at El Paso’s Migrant Welcome Center.

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AG Challenger Garza Hopes To Ride Abortion Issue Into Office

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Well before jumping into the Texas attorney general's race, Democrat Rochelle Garza beat back a Trump administration attempt to stop a detained immigrant teenager from getting an abortion.

Incumbent Attorney General Ken Paxton backed the administration in that 2017 case, warning in a brief that "Texas must not become a sanctuary state for abortions." But Garza, an immigration lawyer, won in the appeals court and the teenager got the abortion.

Democrats like Garza hope to ride the abortion issue into office in November on a wave of feminist anger over the overturn of  Roe v. Wade.

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State Board of Education Fight Symbolizes Divisions

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A North Texas battle for a seat on the State Board of Education — which sets the pace for what millions of children learn — is reflecting the broad fight over the direction of the Republican and Democratic Parties and the divisions they represent in society as a whole.

Tracy Fisher is a lifelong Republican turned off by the culture war rhetoric used by conservative party leaders. She’s now running as a Democrat in the District 14 race, touting her experience as a veteran school board trustee and former public school parent.

The Republican nominee, Evelyn Brooks, is backing a party platform that decries critical race theory and explicit sex education for even the youngest children.

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South Texas Republican Congressional Candidates Highlight Faith, Voter Turnout

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The three Republican candidates running to represent the Rio Grande Valley in Congress came together for a prayer breakfast here, highlighting their faith as they called on people to vote in the midterm elections.

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Beto Vows To End Standardized Testing, But He Can't

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Beto O’Rourke’s vows to cancel the STAAR test are untenable since state and federal law preclude him from eliminating the standardized testing program on his own, reports the Texas Tribune.

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Republicans Field record Number of Blacks, Hispanics

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Republicans are fielding a more racially diverse array of candidates in the midterms, hoping to make gains among voters of color and counter criticism their party appeals only to White people.

Thirty Hispanic and 24 Black Republicans are on ballots for House races, part of an even larger group of nearly 200 Black and Latino Republicans who ran in primaries — both record figures, according to the National Republican Congressional Committee. Another five Black or Hispanic GOP candidates are running for Senate seats.

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Beto Gets High Profile Endorsement From UK Singer Harry Styles

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Singer Harry Styles, a citizen of the United Kingdom who cannot vote in Texas elections, appeared to endorse Democrat Beto O'Rourke for Texas governor during a concert at Moody Center in Austin, Fox News and Variety magazine reported.

During the show on Sunday, Styles flashed a "Beto for Texas" sticker on his guitar that the audience was able to see in a close-up on the big screen. Cameras then showed O'Rourke in the crowd clapping with fans of the pop star.

O’Rourke was later seen walking around the arena greeting fans.

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Beto Gets Endorsement Of 35 Uvalde Shooting Victim's Parents

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Hours ahead of the only planned gubernatorial debate of the election cycle, the families of Uvalde school shooting victims met with and threw their support behind Democrat Beto O’Rourke, saying in a news conference that incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, had not taken meaningful enough action on gun control measures following the deaths of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers.

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Abbott Puts Up Billboards Mocking Beto

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The campaign of Gov. Greg Abbott is launching a series of billboards. The ads appear in locations throughout the Rio Grande Valley.

“Beto O’Rourke... won’t be able to run from his extreme liberal policies that are wrong for Texas,” said Texans for Greg Abbott Communications Director Mark Miner. “The Beto-Biden agenda of open borders, defunding the police, and killing energy jobs would destroy the Lone Star State.”

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Beto Dodges AR-15 Confiscation Question #TexasPilitics365

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Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke dodged a question twice on Friday night during a debate when asked if he would confiscate AR-15's, as he has previously stated.

The debate took place between Texas gubernatorial candidates Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat, and Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, Friday night.

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Abbott, O'Rourke Debate, Minor Party Candidates Left Out

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Texas voters Friday night got to witness what’s expected to be the only debate in the governor’s race before the Nov. 8 election, but they won’t get to see candidates from all the political parties on the statewide ballot.

Not invited were Libertarian nominee Mark Tippetts and the Green Party’s Delilah Barrios.

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