Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick stated emphatically that the Lone Star State “will not yield to blackmail from the President of the United States,” in response to new guidelines released Friday from the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S.
Border Patrol agents found 37 illegal aliens, including three juveniles from Mexico and Honduras, in a “Goddess of Death” shrine adorned stash house in Edinburg, Texas, on Monday.
For the 12th consecutive year, Chief Executive Magazine named Texas the nation’s best state for business. This year’s accolades come at a time when even more businesses either expanded their operations or relocated their headquarters to the Lone Star State.
Another corporate headquarters is calling Texas home after Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has officially settled into its offices in southwest Houston. Texas Governor Greg Abbott was on hand to formally welcome the new employees last week.
Gov. Sam Brownback’s recent decision to withdraw the state of Kansas from the federal refugee resettlement program may be just the first step in a full-fledged battle with the Obama administration over state sovereignty issues.
Law enforcement officers, public officials, family members and supporters gathered at the Texas Capitol on Monday to honor peace officers who lost their lives during 2015.
Texas leads the nation in refugee resettlement despite objections from the governor and a lawsuit from the state. The Lone Star State is now home to 2,677 refugees who have been settled in the state since October 2015. While Texas is followed closely by California, who has resettled 2,654 refugees, the next closest state is Washington with about half that resettled in Texas, according to information obtained from the U.S. Department of State by Breitbart Texas.
Lawyers for the indicted Planned Parenthood undercover video journalists were in court in Harris County Friday and they are infuriated that justice is being delayed. Lawyers for David Daleiden filed motions to quash his indictments two weeks ago and they still have not been heard. Pretrial diversion deals were rejected weeks ago.
A 2-year investigation has resulted in the indictments of 29 people and 86 criminal charges relating to a cartel-connected human smuggling operation in South Texas.
The state of Texas currently has no authority over agencies that are resettling refugees in the Lone Star State.
A federal district judge in San Antonio has issued an order stopping a Texas law criminalizing the harboring of illegal aliens, at least for now. The judge issued the preliminary injunction in MALDEF’s (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) lawsuit challenging Texas House Bill 11, a law which open border advocates are fighting because they say it improperly targets illegal alien shelters and those who rent to illegal aliens.
CPS Workers across Texas are accused of falsifying records of visits to endangered children. At least two children died after workers failed to visit home.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has appointed a former chief of the Texas Rangers as new Commissioner of the disgraced Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). DFPS is the agency responsible for protecting abused and neglected children in the state. Breitbart Texas has reported about the abuses, problems, and overreach in the agency, particularly among CPS caseworkers. DFPS is also referred to as Child Protective Services or “CPS.” There have been horrific abuses of children who are in the state’s foster care system.
The South Carolina senate passed a bill which would make refugee sponsors liable for damages caused by crimes or terrorism committed by the refugees they sponsored. The vote came just one day after terrorists attacked the airport in Brussels, murdering 38 people, including 4 Americans.
The only Easter message from Planned Parenthood on Sunday morning asked people to sign a petition to “stop the investigations” into “PP health centers” and included “#StandWithPP.” As of the time of publication, neither @PPact or @PPFA had tweeted out any message for this Easter day.
The Houston affiliate of Planned Parenthood has filed legal documents to join in the California lawsuit against the pro-life group who took the undercover expose videos of its staff and clinic, the Center for Medical Progress.
A “140 percent” increase in concealed handgun license applications puts Texas on the verge of surpassing a total of one million license holders in the state.
In March 2015, President Barack Obama said, “It’s important that veterans know that somebody’s got their backs, and that, if there are problems, that we’re not being defensive about it, not hiding it.” In March 2016, veterans are still having
More Texas graduate schools rated well in the 2017 US News & World Report roundup of the nation’s law, business, medicine, nursing, engineering, and education programs. The University of Texas at Austin led the state in its top-rated graduate school offerings.
The State of Texas has filed a brief to reply to the claims on appeal made by the convicted murderer of “American Sniper” Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield. Eddie Ray Routh is asking an intermediate appellate court in Texas to set aside the jury’s guilty verdict.
President Barack Obama was in Texas on Friday attending the annual SxSW event where he told millennials and others that government “does great things” because it “is delivering for everybody in this room.” His lecture was to those “who despise every level of government.” He did not tell the Texans who had their homes and businesses destroyed and damaged from severe weather and fires that he has denied them financial assistance.
Governor Greg Abbott presented the newly authorized Texas Purple Heart to Fort Hood soldiers who survived the 2009 terrorist attack and to the families who lost their loved ones on that tragic day. A new memorial to honor all of those who were affected on that day was also unveiled.
San Francisco-based McKesson Corporation, the latest California company coming to the Lone Star State, plans to invest $157 million in a North Texas regional center. The move is part of an organizational consolidation and expansion plan expected to add nearly 1,000 new jobs. The Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) will kick in $9.75 million to the venture.
Republican presidential candidate and Texas Senator Ted Cruz greeted 1,200 excited followers in his hometown and told them, “Donald Trump does not get to exploit the immigration laws and take advantage of American workers, and then pretend he is going to be a champion for American workers.”
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is showing a new television ad ahead of Super Tuesday featuring Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
Republican presidential hopeful and Texas Ted Cruz is “cruzzz’in” through the Lone Star State with Texas Governor Greg Abbott and former Governor Rick Perry on Monday. Both have endorsed their fellow Texan.
Republican candidates in the Texas House District 128 race are trading political hits over whether the incumbent, Rep. Wayne Smith (R-Baytown) is in favor of tolling the Fred Hartman Bridge. Challenger Briscoe Cain says Smith’s record suggests he wouldn’t be opposed to the idea.
Border crossings by Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) and Family Units rose significantly during the first four months of FY 2016 when compared to the same period in FY 2015. Some Border Patrol sectors reported in excess of 500 percent increases in both categories.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said next Tuesday’s Republican primary will be “Super Cruzday.” His comment came during his “cruz” through the spin room after the Republican presidential debate on Thursday night.
GOP presidential candidate and Texas Ted Cruz spoke to a packed house at the Harris County Lincoln-Reagan dinner. There were more than 1,200 Republicans gathered to hear their fellow Houstonian.
Texas senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz delighted hundreds of fired-up supporters by taking time to attend a rally in his hometown of Houston on Wednesday.
Feb. 23rd, Salon magazine reported on an “unofficial forum” at the University of Houston in which professors discussed how to prevent angering students in light of the campus carry law signed by “hard-line right-wing” Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R).
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz was greeted by Texas Governor Greg Abbott and hundreds of enthusiastic supporters today at a rally in Houston.
The highest criminal court in the Lone Star State has dismissed the second and final felony charge against former Texas Governor Rick Perry.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott endorsed Ted Cruz in his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination in a video on Wednesday morning.”Conservative values are at his core,” Abbott said in describing his former employee. He added that Cruz is a “constitutionalist whose judgment I trust to appoint the right judges to the United States Supreme Court.”
GOP presidential hopeful, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott are expected to address the Harris County Republican Party’s Lincoln-Reagan Dinner on the eve of the February 25th Presidential Debate. A crowd in excess of 1,200 is expected to pack the event, one of the largest of its kind in Texas.
The list is growing for cities and counties in Texas who are adding “In God We Trust” to their emergency vehicles. The latest is Kendall County, just northwest of San Antonio.
The First Amendment and religious liberty has been under assault in Texas, and the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee held a hearing and took testimony to begin to look at potential solutions to propose during the 2017 legislative session.
President Obama’s proposed budget for 2017 halts reimbursement to state and county jails for housing, feeding, and providing the medical and mental health needs of criminal illegal aliens.
A federal judge in Dallas, Texas, has again rejected a call by the state of Texas to halt Syrian refugees from settling in the Lone Star State. Essentially, because the state has not been able to point their finger to a terrorist posing as a Syrian refugee in the state, Texas has not been able to obtain protection.
