The toughest anti-immigrant law in the United States was in effect for about eight hours and forty minutes. The Fifth Circuit of Appeals blocked the controversial Texas rule again on Tuesday night. The panel’s decision came just hours after the conservative majority in the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the law, known as SB4, to go … Read more
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, took advantage of his visit to the border with Mexico in Brownsville (Texas) this Thursday to redouble the pressure on Republicans to approve a law to contain immigration pressure. Biden recalled that as soon as he came to office he proposed a bill to reform “a broken … Read more
Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, went running on Thursday, February 22, at the University of Georgia in Athens. She never returned to her room. She was found dead that same day in a wooded area of campus. The next day, José Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old Venezuelan who crossed the border illegally in September 2022, … Read more
It’s official now. The Smokehouse Creek Fire is the largest ever recorded in the State of Texas. The fire has spread to 1.075 million acres (just over 435,000 hectares), according to the update provided this Thursday by forestry services. Of that area, 1.05 million acres correspond to Texas and the other 25,000 acres to neighboring … Read more
The fire is devastating large areas of North Texas and leaving horrendous images in the Panhandle area, in the north of the State. In addition to forest area, the flames have consumed houses, devoured cars, burned ranches and killed cattle and have already left the first fatality, an 83-year-old woman from the small town of … Read more