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San Antonio Reddit moderators look to block another local news outlet
After banning the Current last fall, the moderators are targeting Sinclair-owned News 4 SA.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Posted inTexas News
A quarter of all July immigration arrests happened in Texas as state stepped up cooperation with ICE
The White House has lowered the profile of its deportation raids, but it’s increased the number of arrests due to cooperation deals with state and local cops.
Posted inPolitics & Elections
At San Antonio rally, Beto O’Rourke warns GOP may use intimidation tactics to steal midterms
The Texas progressive’s warning comes as GOP-led Tarrant County voted to close 92 polling stations, some serving Black and Latino neighborhoods.
Posted inTexas News
Austin man’s wrongful deportation casts scrutiny on Texas’ embrace of ICE partnerships
The federal government let U.S. citizen Brian José Morales García return to Texas on Sunday after deporting him to Mexico following a traffic stop in Central Texas.
Posted inSan Antonio News
Alligator Alcatraz company to run ICE detention warehouse on San Antonio’s East Side
The company that helped run the controversial Everglades detention camp has also been embroiled in lawsuits over claims of wage theft, fraud and data breaches.
Posted inTexas News
Prosecutor will take Houston ICE shooting case to grand jury
Sean Teare said feds still aren’t cooperating with his investigation. A separate federal filing claims DPS provided the tip ICE agents were pursuing.
Posted inTexas News
‘Living like vampires’: ICE surge fractures daily life in deep South Texas
‘It’s gotten that bad: People don’t want to register their children to school. They don’t want to do groceries. They don’t even want to stop by the store for their morning coffee.’
Posted inTexas News
Abbott asks court to reject Minnesota bid to force extradition of ICE officer
The Texas governor said he has doubts Christian Castro is a fugitive subject to extradition, adding the state is still investigating. A hearing on keeping him in custody is Tuesday.
Posted inTexas News
Minnesota sues Abbott to force extradition of ICE agent accused of shooting Venezuelan man
Christian Castro, accused of assault and lying about the circumstance leading to the Jan. 14 shooting, was arrested in Cameron County in May.
Posted inTexas News
U.S. attorney confirms FBI tests didn’t find meth in van driven by man fatally shot by ICE in Houston
Aaron Reitz did not reveal what FBI testing found in bags taken from Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s van after his July 7 shooting death. Other men in the van said the bags contained salt.
Posted inSan Antonio News
Migrant kids often held in South Texas detention center five times longer than a court order allows
The nation’s only detention center for families is routinely holding children beyond the 20-day limit, including an Iranian-born “average American kid” who’s been locked up for 123 days and counting.
Posted inSan Antonio News
Reddit user accuses r/sanantonio moderators of censoring negative comments about Mayor Jones
The allegation of censorship comes as rhetoric around Jones’ proposed November ballot initiative heats up.
Posted inTexas News
Trump deportations hurting Texas with rising prices, job losses, new report finds
San Antonio lost nearly 8,200 jobs due to ICE enforcement actions, and Rio Grande Valley construction jobs recently took their worst hit on record.
Posted inTexas News
For Texas DACA recipients, a fearful present and an uncertain future as protected status expires
Many of the roughly 80,000 Texas residents in the program are facing renewal delays that can leave them undocumented, unable to legally work and exposed to possible deportation.
Posted inSan Antonio News
The number of children at Dilley prison camp has gone up yet again
San Antonio Rep. Joaquin Castro attributes the increase to ICE surges over the past month throughout the country.
Posted inTexas News
Pediatrician calls conditions inside Dilley prison camp ‘child abuse,’ accuses ICE of human rights violations
Dr. Anita Patel’s comments came after she visited the immigrant detention center near San Antonio as part of a delegation led by U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro.
Posted inTexas News
Passengers in Houston ICE shooting say agents rammed their van before firing
The newly released, handwritten statements by two men who saw Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s shooting say he never threatened ICE agents.
Posted inNews
Judge blocks feds from deporting witness to Houston ICE shooting
The order applies to one of the three passengers in the van Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving when he was fatally shot by ICE. Lawyers are seeking the men’s release from detention.
Posted inTexas News
ICE is arresting relatives who come forward to take custody of migrant children in federal shelters
Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors, leaving kids waiting in shelters for months.
Posted inTexas News
Houston ICE shooting strains already tense relations between U.S., Mexico
Mexico’s president said her government will file complaints and lawsuits over 17 deaths related to U.S. immigration enforcement.
