Gus Bova
Senior Writer and Assistant Editor at The Texas Observer
Kansas-Texas transplant. Editor-in-Chief @TexasObserver. Tips: [email protected], or DM for Signal.
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3 weeks ago |
texasobserver.org | Francesca D’Annunzio |Gus Bova
Over the weekend, the state House and Senate ironed out lingering differences in Senate Bill 8, a measure that will—assuming the governor’s signature—mandate previously voluntary agreements between Texas county sheriffs and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). As passed, SB 8 will require all Texas sheriffs to apply for so-called 287(g) agreements, “or a similar federal program,” with ICE.
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1 month ago |
sacurrent.com | Gus Bova
This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook and X. Three long years ago, in a southwest Texas town now almost synonymous with the tragedy, something happened in an elementary school so horrifying that it nearly defied meaning altogether, challenging any sense of a guiding plan or greater judiciousness in human affairs. Nineteen children. And two teachers. Gone.
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1 month ago |
texasobserver.org | Gus Bova
Three long years ago, in a southwest Texas town now almost synonymous with the tragedy, something happened in an elementary school so horrifying that it nearly defied meaning altogether, challenging any sense of a guiding plan or greater judiciousness in human affairs. Nineteen children. And two teachers. Gone. Uvalde—a place name to be forever followed by a fraught pause.
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1 month ago |
texasobserver.org | Gus Bova
Texas Observer readers,Three months into a second Trump administration, nearly a decade into the Trump era, more than a decade into the Greg Abbott era, and 22 harrowingly long years into the GOP’s unilateral control of Texas government, the forces of political progress in our state find themselves somewhere between stasis, retrenchment, and the abyss. There just isn’t much right now to prop up either cheap short-term optimism (backlash midterm) or grander narratives (demographic destiny).
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1 month ago |
tspantx.com | Gus Bova
Texas Observer readers,Three months into a second Trump administration, nearly a decade into the Trump era, more than a decade into the Greg Abbott era, and 22 harrowingly long years into the GOP’s unilateral control of Texas government, the forces of political progress in our state find themselves somewhere between stasis, retrenchment, and the abyss. There just isn’t much right now to prop up either cheap short-term optimism (backlash midterm) or grander narratives (demographic destiny).
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A 287(g) ICE-police task force is pending for this tiny chunk of Houston: https://t.co/q7PYPvGGQB https://t.co/JpUFrc0FN0
I honestly don't know whether it's worth it to promote stories like this on this site anymore. But, anyhoo, here's a good story about refugees in San Antonio: https://t.co/ePSb28OBkK
RT @byEllaMcCarthy: Update: Crowds largely dispersed, some people still being directed through the streets of Austin by law enforcement.…