"#Families have begun to arrive in recent days at a #detention facility in South #Texas"
Wondering what temperatures are going to be like in south Texas in July?
Not that #Trump or #StephenMiller would worry about some trifle like that
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#ICYMI: If the voucher bill were to pass, select private companies could soon be reeling in tens and even hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars per year. We took a closer look at who stands to gain the most.
https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-vendors-millions-legislature/
The Texas Observer · How Voucher Vendors Could Make Millions from ‘School Choice’ in TexasThe Legislature’s current proposals put a handful of private contractors in the driver’s seat. Other states have already seen problems.
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#Families have begun to arrive in recent days at a #detention facility in South #Texas, & #immigration lawyers are expecting more to be brought in the coming days. A second detention center…is being readied for families.
Each of the facilities is being set up to hold thousands of people. At one site, lawyers say, multiple families are being detained in rooms with 4 to 8 bunk beds & shared bathroom facilities.
#Trump Administration Revives #Detention of Immigrant #Families
Two facilities in South #Texas are being readied for undocumented parents & their #children. One site began receiving them earlier this month.
#immigration #law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #geopolitics #ConcentrationCamps
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/family-detention-immigrants-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=1E32C92F-CBD6-4EA3-A4DA-31FC5CE364F1
The New York Times · Trump Administration Revives Detention of Immigrant Families
"When you cross this bridge here, you can see turtles in the water."
In our magazine: A fresh crop of #Texas films are changing how cinema views the politically charged border region:
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-border-new-frontier-film/
The Texas Observer · The Texas Border Is the New Frontier of FilmAfter years of having their stories told by outsiders, locals are fighting back with their own cameras and building much-needed infrastructure. But they need more support.
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“This is, as far as I know, the first allegation that someone in a ban state is providing an abortion in direct violation of abortion laws,” said Marc Hearron of the Center for #ReproductiveRights.
In a handful of cases, charges have been brought against people who provided #abortion pills to relatives, either with their knowledge or without.
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…The bans on abortions around the country have largely relied on the threat of prosecution, w/few instances in which #criminal cases have actually been filed. #Abortion providers in #Texas & other states w/ abortion bans ceased operations after the decision. #Women seeking abortions have instead had to travel to states where the procedure remains legal or have received abortion medication through the mail.
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The stmnt said that she had been “charged with the illegal performance of an abortion,” which has been a second-degree #felony since the state’s near-total #AbortionBan took effect in 2022. She was also charged w/practicing #medicine without a license.
Court records released late Monday indicated that a person who worked w/Ms. Rojas, Jose Ley, 29, was also arrested & charged w/the same offenses.
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#KenPaxton, the #Texas AG, said in a statement that the #midwife, Maria Margarita Rojas, operated clinics in several towns around Houston, including 2 in Harris County, the state’s most populous county, & one in Waller County, a more rural & conservative jurisdiction where the charges were brought.
A #midwife & an associate have been arrested & charged w/illegally performing abortions in greater #Houston, acc/to court records & the #Texas AG, apparently the first #criminal arrests of #abortion providers since #SCOTUS overturned #RoeVWade in 2022.
#law #ReproductiveRights #health #WomensHealth #MaleSupremacy #BackAlleyAbortions
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/abortion-arrest.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=69B9A807-AD57-4712-B295-54FF457D615B
The New York Times · Texas Midwife Charged in Abortion Case
The Texas Institute of Letters recognized Dylan Baddour's article, “Forgotten Keepers of the Rio Grande Delta,” as the best short nonfiction of 2024.
Congratulations Dylan! 
We are proud to have published this important story, and so many others you've contributed. https://www.texasobserver.org/forgotten-keepers-of-the-rio-grande-delta/
“We’re just hoping kids with disabilities aren’t going to have nothing left for them.”
From the archives, by @josephinelee in 2023: Before Texas, there was #Arizona. A look at how their voucher program used vulnerable students to attack public schools. https://www.texasobserver.org/voucher-program-arizona-privitization-public-schools-disabilities/
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ABC News · Woman arrested for allegedly providing illegal abortions in Houston area, Texas AG says
“Now what we’re seeing is a full-on assault on our state’s immunization program. Activists felt like they could take advantage of the [COVID-19 pandemic] and exploit it and start going after laws that have been on the books for decades.” https://www.texasobserver.org/measles-outbreak-anti-vax-legislation/
The Texas Observer · Amid Texas Measles Outbreak, Conservatives Double Down on Anti-Vax CrusadeSpread of the virus is due to low immunization rates in certain communities. Meanwhile, some legislators are cheering for more “medical freedom.”
#ICYMI: A transgender prisoner held in solitary confinement reports on the growing usage of Tasers against the most vulnerable of the incarcerated in #Texas. https://www.texasobserver.org/an-inside-look-at-taser-use-in-texas-prison/
The Texas Observer · An Inside Look at Taser Use in Texas PrisonThe sound of electricity sizzling and crackling broke the silence. To me, it looked like the electric chair was officially back in the prisons.
OK, FOLKS, HERE COMES ANOTHER BIG ONE:
New State Added: I've completed pie charts breaking out total population enrollment in Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare & ACA exchange plans for every Congressional District in #TEXAS:
ACA Signups · Congressional District Enrollment: TexasNOTE: THIS IS AN ONGOING PROJECT; IT WILL TAKE SEVERAL DAYS TO ADD EVERY STATE. CHECK BACK SOON. Over the past couple of months I've compiled a master spreadsheet breaking out enrollment in ACA plans (Qualified Health Plans & Basic Health Plans), Medicaid/CHIP coverage (both traditional & via ACA expansion) and Medicare (both Fee-for-Services & Advantage) at the Congressional District levels. With the pending dire threat to several of these programs (primarily Medicaid & the ACA) from the House Republican Budget Proposal which recently passed, I'm going a step further and am generating pie charts which visualize just how much of every Congressional District's total population is at risk of losing healthcare coverage. USE THE DROP-DOWN MENU ABOVE TO FIND YOUR STATE & DISTRICT. You can find the data sources & methodology explanation links here.
“It’s more government, more bureaucracy, more money, and there’s no oversight. And it’s taxation without representation,. The taxpayers don’t get to pick who these private companies are that our tax dollars are going into. So that is not a free market.” https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-vendors-millions-legislature/
The Texas Observer · How Voucher Vendors Could Make Millions from ‘School Choice’ in TexasThe Legislature’s current proposals put a handful of private contractors in the driver’s seat. Other states have already seen problems.
This is why respirators need to be mandatory in hospitals.
Babies, people with certain disabilities & some health conditions need others to mask to protect them.
This hospital shouldn’t be “scrambling”. Make masks mandatory & protect patients and staff.
Clean & ventilate the air too!
NBC News · As Texas measles outbreak grows, newborn babies were exposed to the virus in Lubbock hospital
Houston has a new measles case. Travel case (infant) not connected to the outbreak in Texas.
The Houston Health Department confirms travel-associated measles case in infant
March 16, 2025
HOUSTON - The Houston Health Department (HHD) has confirmed the city’s third measles case of 2025. The case involves an unvaccinated infant who was exposed to measles during international travel. The infant was hospitalized and has since been discharged and is recovering at home.
This case is not connected to the measles outbreak in West Texas. This case is not related to the two earlier cases of measles reported in Houston in January 2025.
www.houstonhealth.orgThe Houston Health Department confirms travel-associated measles case in infant | Houston Health DepartmentHOUSTON, TX – March 2025 – The Houston Health Department (HHD) has confirmed the city’s third measles case of 2025. The case