immigration
On the morning of March 1, 2003, somewhere in a regional federal building whose exact address the record doesn't preserve, a maintenance worker took down a brass plate that read U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE and put up a temporary sign, stick-on vinyl, reading BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS
immigration
In December 2023, Border Patrol logged 249,785 encounters at the southern border, a monthly record that Republicans quoted at every microphone in Washington. Twelve months later the number was 47,330, a drop of 81 percent, achieved by tighter asylum rules, expanded legal pathways, faster removals, and closer coordination
immigration
The question came from the bench in the flat, unhurried tone judges use when they already suspect the answer will not survive the asking. An Obama appointee, hearing a challenge to the administration's immigration halt, wanted to know something a lot of soccer fans had wondered without the
Texas politics
In the strip malls off Highway 83 outside McAllen, the same small businessmen who put Trump signs in their windows in 2024 are, by most recent accounts, now putting Talarico signs up instead. Hardware stores, HVAC outfits, the kind of Hispanic-owned small business that Republican strategists cited for two straight