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In Houston, more than 5,000 janitors are immigrants from El Salvador, which is roughly 10% of the janitorial workforce. Yet they are less than 3% of working people in the city.
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Maynor Suazo Sandoval left Honduras when he was 20 and built a new life in the U.S. He is one of the missing workers from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge.
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Mayor Ron Nirenberg said there is no guarantee that the city will get all the money it needs to run the MRC from the federal government and that they expected to learn more in the coming weeks.
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The controversial new law would allow Texas law enforcement officers and judges to arrest and deport people in the country illegally, powers that have traditionally belonged to the federal government.
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The controversial state law makes illegally crossing the Mexico-Texas border a state crime and gives state law enforcement officers the power to make arrests of suspected violators.
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It's also the first lawsuit to claim that SB4 violates constitutional rights against unreasonable searches and seizures, as well as cruel and unusual punishments.
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A temporary hold on the law was set to expire Wednesday, but the high court extended the pause.
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Federal dollars for the Migrant Resource Center are expected to run out by the end of the year, and the city will have to decide what comes next if more federal funding doesn’t come.
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Crossings are down in Texas, but the presidents are heading here anyway.
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The state of Texas has spent more than $845,000 flying migrants to New York, Philadelphia and Chicago.