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Briscoe Western Art Museum to open new exhibit featuring animals, their natural habitats on June 14
Read full article: Briscoe Western Art Museum to open new exhibit featuring animals, their natural habitats on June 14The Briscoe Western Art Museum is offering a new exhibit this summer to beat the heat and provide visitors with a place to learn about animals and their natural habitats.
Thanks to local politics and a railroad, rural Kinney County accounts for most of Texas’ migrant arrests
Read full article: Thanks to local politics and a railroad, rural Kinney County accounts for most of Texas’ migrant arrestsUnder Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security push, Texas state police have arrested hundreds of migrants in the conservative county, usually after spotting them on cargo trains or walking remote ranch lands. Sent to a state prison retooled as an immigration jail, many men were left without lawyers for weeks.
Converted Texas prison gets first immigrant detainees as Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security effort ramps up
Read full article: Converted Texas prison gets first immigrant detainees as Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security effort ramps upBorder-crossing immigrants are being arrested by Texas troopers on state charges like trespassing, and they’re starting to trickle into a prison emptied to house them.
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Almost 150 guards are staffing an empty Texas prison as state officials work on Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to use it for immigrants
Read full article: Almost 150 guards are staffing an empty Texas prison as state officials work on Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to use it for immigrantsWhile many Texas prisons are understaffed, some dangerously so, the emptied-out Briscoe Unit in Dilley is in "maintenance mode" as officials scramble to implement the governor's plan to increase the state's role in border enforcement.