#Texas governor demands Biden take ‘immediate action’ on cartels

#Texas governor demands Biden take ‘immediate action’ on cartels

“#Texas governor demands Biden take ‘immediate action’ on cartels” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants the Biden administration to take “immediate action” against Mexican drug cartels by designating them as foreign terrorist organizations. In a Thursday letter to President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Abbott took aim at the “dangerous and deadly” Mexican drug cartels…

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#VP Harris’ response to migrant crisis is absurd: Devine

#VP Harris’ response to migrant crisis is absurd: Devine

“#VP Harris’ response to migrant crisis is absurd: Devine” It’s humiliating for the president that almost three weeks since he appointed Kamala Harris as his border point-woman she still hasn’t visited the disaster zone, come up with a plan or held a press conference on the migrant crisis.  Instead, she’s visited a water- treatment plant…

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#More than 4,000 migrants, many children, packed in Texas facility

#More than 4,000 migrants, many children, packed in Texas facility

“#More than 4,000 migrants, many children, packed in Texas facility” The US government’s main border detention facility for migrant children is an overcrowded tent structure currently packed with more than 4,000 people, despite a 250 person capacity, it was revealed Tuesday. The Biden administration for the first time allowed reporters from the Associated Press and…

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#Letters to the Editor — March 29, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — March 29, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — March 29, 2021” The Issue: A deal struck by New York state lawmakers to legalize marijuana by 2022. I grew up in the ’60s, so I have no problem with the smoking of marijuana (“Potholes in the Pot Law,” Editorial, March 25). As a former pot smoker, I can say…

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#Texas Democrat reveals photos of kids packed in border facilities

#Texas Democrat reveals photos of kids packed in border facilities

“#Texas Democrat reveals photos of kids packed in border facilities” New photos that reveal startlingly overcrowded conditions at border facilities were released by a Democratic congressman Sunday. The shots show dozens of children packed into glass-walled rooms, lying shoulder-to-shoulder on thin mattresses, many covered with foil blankets amid the escalating crisis. Others showed hundreds of…

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#White House downplays migrant surge as normal springtime rise

#White House downplays migrant surge as normal springtime rise

“#White House downplays migrant surge as normal springtime rise” A top White House aide on Sunday insisted the rising numbers of migrants, particularly unaccompanied children, crossing the border is just the normal springtime surge. Challenged to respond to the growing numbers of children arriving on their own — with 18,000 now in federal custody —…

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