Gov. Greg Abbott, escalating his criticism of the Biden administration s policies at the nation s southern border, warned Wednesday that unaccompanied children crossing into Texas are vulnerable to becoming victims of sex trafficking.
Abbott, a second-term Republican, said the new Democratic president s policy of allowing migrant teenagers to temporarily remain in the United States is enticing young people from Mexico, Central America and South America to put themselves at risk. We must get to the bottom of the human trafficking and put an end to it, Abbott said during a news conference at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas.
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AUSTIN The numbers were finally going in the right direction when Gov. Greg Abbott announced he was loosening the reins on businesses that had all but been shut down for weeks after COVID-19 case numbers were doubling by the week.
It was April, 27, 2020. Just two and a half weeks earlier, the daily count of confirmed cases in Texas from the still strange new virus reached what at the time was the alarming number of 1,400. But when the governor gave the go-ahead for retail stores, sit-down restaurants and some other business types to reopen at pared-back capacities, the new daily caseload from the day before was down to a manageable 666.
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AUSTIN The chairwoman for the Texas Public Utility Commission resigned under fire Monday amid continuing fallout from the massive failure of the state s electric power grid during last month s record-breaking winter storm.
DeAnn Walker s decision came just hours after Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called on both her and the top executive of the grid manager to step down, saying they proved woefully unprepared to manage the crisis.
In her resignation letter, Walker said responsibility for the grid failure that left more than 4 million Texans without electricity, many for several consecutive days, falls on many shoulders, including the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the grid manager.