Amid New Immigration Policies, Local Attorneys and Immigrants Navigate a Broken System

Lawyers say the system has been thrown into "chaos"

"...and are seeking protection. Southwest border apprehensions hit a new peak this past May, with nearly 133,000 migrant arrests,..."

July 26, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

ACLU Warns Border Counties: Abbott’s Setting You Up

County officials warned they'll be flouting Constitution and federal law if they follow governor's immigration edict

"...Abbott's declaration of a "public safety disaster" at the Texas-Mexico border, the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas sent..."

July 9, 2021 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Another Legal Battle Lost in the Fight for Abortion Rights

While ACLU fights for a few more weeks of abortion services, providers look to haven states

"...The legal skirmishes that could have bought Texans a..."

July 8, 2022 News Feature by Maggie Q. Thompson

The War on Talking About the Drug War

Border Patrol agent loses job after stating the obvious

"...lot of lives across the border and over here," New Mexico ACLU spokesman Micah McCoy said during a recent..."

Feb. 4, 2011 News Column by Jordan Smith

Abortions Decrease in Texas After HB 2, Data Shows

DSHS finally releases 2014 abortion stats after ACLU request

"...strategic cover-up of key abortion data lodged by the ACLU of Texas, the Department of State Health Services released..."

June 30, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

Obituary for Molly Ivins

Ivins' obit from the Texas Observer

"...and her two siblings, Sara (Ivins) Maley of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Andy Ivins of London, Texas, grew up..."

Feb. 1, 2007 News Post by Wells Dunbar

This Ain't No Picnic: Minutemen on Patrol

The sinister legions of the 'Drug Cartel' have little to fear from the latest incarnation of border hysteria. As for the rest of us ...

"...Minuteman groups, scattered throughout the surrounding counties and neighboring New Mexico. "He's here, but he's not here," McGauley warned..."

Oct. 28, 2005 News Feature by Diana Welch

"A Record of Dishonesty"

Allegations of improprieties against Wackenhut are not confined to Travis County.

"...New Mexico: Riots broke out at two facilities operated by..."

July 5, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Weed Watch

The draconian R.A.V.E. Act sneaks back into Congress, but reform advocates are pushing drug bills across the nation -- including in Texas

"...use drugs in their own homes. Representatives from the ACLU, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, and other reformers took..."

March 14, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...last week that it's considering 29 proposals for a new federal laboratory to study biotoxins and responses to possible..."

July 7, 2006 News Feature

Page Two

If he were CEO, and not governor, of Texas, Rick Perry's lazy disloyalty would never be tolerated; look for new "Postmarks" online daily; Screens Editor Kimberley Jones decamps for graduate school; and we honor the righteous life of Marjorie Hershey.

"...to Tom DeLay. Only when Democrat senators decamped to New Mexico did he expand the session's scope, his "concern..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Happenings

Oct. 25-31

"...over the last half-century, with comments from Austin Chronicle News Editor Michael King. 7pm. UT campus, Thompson Conference Center,..."

Oct. 26, 2007 News Feature

Naked City

Warren Chisum resurrects the Andrews County nuclear waste dump, Longhorn Pipeline politics under scrutiny, and Austin marches against hate

"...aging piles of nuclear weapons waste. And without the Texas-New England compact, which died with the Sierra Blanca dump,..."

March 16, 2001 News Feature by Louis Dubose

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...as a broad scientific consensus told the powers-that-be in New Orleans that destruction of buffering wetlands and an inadequate..."

April 21, 2006 Column

DPS Troopers Push Undocumented Immigrants Into a Deportation Pipeline

Spike in traffic stops raises concerns about racial profiling, faulty record keeping, and the damage done to families

"...recently, an incident near Austin showed up in the news. These stories constitute an object lesson in what could..."

June 2, 2017 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...Free and convenient computer recycling for all Texans! A new state law that took effect Monday requires recycling by..."

Sept. 12, 2008 News Feature

T. Don Hutto: Homeland Security Bars U.N. Inspector

Homeland Security clangs detention center's door shut on U.N. investigator Jorge Bustamante

"...saying the visit was never approved, though Bustamante told News 8 Austin on Monday that Homeland Security had actually..."

May 11, 2007 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...completely discredits the complaining parties and thus discredits your newspaper for lending credence to their fictions. You have probably..."

May 2, 2003 Column

ICE Strikes Deal With Surveillance Firm

What does Vigilant Solutions’ license plate reader deal with APD mean for the city’s stonewall of ICE?

"...Feb. 16. While 86 immigrants – mostly men from Mexico – had criminal convictions, 39 were arrested based on..."

March 2, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

How DPS's Occupation of a Border Town May Have Crippled Its Economy

Rio Grande City sees a marked decline in sales and tourism

"...the Rio Grande Valley, hard on the border with Mexico. Vera started lambasting the Department of Public Safety in..."

Oct. 6, 2017 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Holder Says California Can't Stop Drug War

Prop 19 debate gets more heated – and less intelligent

"...First, according to the Los Angeles Times, Proposition 19..."

Oct. 26, 2010 News Post by Jordan Smith

Naked City

"...legislation; and criminal justice hearings began with the unsurprising news that the prisons are full of nonviolent criminals awaiting..."

Feb. 2, 2007 News Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...very biased ["This Ain't No Picnic: Minutemen on Patrol," News, Oct. 28]. Sounds as if she was against the..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Column

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...than 50 people applied for (hot) seats on the new hospital district board. See p.20...."

July 9, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...is poorly drafted." – Ann del Llano of the ACLU, defending the proposed "Clean Government/Clean Water" city charter amendments..."

April 21, 2006 News Feature

Tom Petty, Charli XCX, and Demi Lovato Headline SXSW Film 2021 List

Festival drops complete lineup, with 2020 titles getting their shot

"...Popstar Demi Lovato’s deeply confessional new YouTube series Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil was..."

Feb. 10, 2021 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...ACLU of Texas Police Accountability Project..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Column

Naked City

"...the border region "boomed" due to trade liberalization with Mexico and the North American Free Trade Agreement and its..."

May 31, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Letters at 3AM

The collapse of the American political process in Election Year 2000 is both an event in itself and a world-class metaphor: The American Century is over.

"...so that police dogs could sniff for drugs; the ACLU challenged their right to do this. The case was..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...of everybody's favorite attorney general, Paxton made more bad news this week when, in a TV news interview, he..."

July 1, 2022 News Feature

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