Fact check: Is Biden immigration policy causing border surge of minors?
Brandon Mulder, PolitiFact Texas
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TOPSHOT - A young female minor walks over others as they lie inside a pod for females at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by the US Customs and Border Protection, (CBP), in Donna, Texas on March 30, 2021. - The minors are housed by the hundreds in eight pods that are about 3,200 square feet in size. Many of the pods had more than 500 children in them. The Biden administration on Tuesday for the first time allowed journalists inside its main detention facility at the border for migrant children, revealing a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 kids and families were crammed into pods and the youngest kept in a large play pen with mats on the floor for sleeping. (Photo by Dario Lopez-Mills / POOL / AFP) (Photo by DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS
LULAC, NAACP decry bill allowing partisan activists to record Texas voters without consent
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A poll watcher looks on as election workers work before the release of early-voting returns in Harris County on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, at NRG Arena in Houston.Jon Shapley, Staff photographer / Staff photographer
Civil rights groups are warning that Black and Hispanic voters will be disproportionately videotaped without their consent at polling locations under a bill on the fast track through the Texas Legislature.
Although videotaping in polling locations in Texas is prohibited, under a bill that passed the Texas Senate just after 2 a.m. Thursday, partisan poll watchers would be allowed to videotape any person voting that they suspect