Atencion! Things will get tougher for pesky border-crossers in Texas if any of Rep. Leo Berman’s (R-Tyler) nine illegal alien bills filed Monday pass. And if they don’t, then he might just have to run for governor – or at least that’s what he told the Austin American-Statesman.
Among the reforms called for in the bills are requirements that all official state documents be written only in English, and that public schools identify the citizenship status of every kid in class.
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Border Patrol agents in South Texas contend they are getting paid to stay put as illegal immigrants go around them. Is this how the much-hyped crackdown along the Rio Grande is supposed to work?
Those who drink codeine syrup call it lean because of its most obvious effect: a loss of coordination. Those who study the drug call it liquid crack. Those who abuse it can wind up dead.
Ranch Rescue's Jack Foote swears he just wants to mend fences. Is pseudomilitary secrecy, right-wing rhetoric and an armed vigilante militia the best way?
Carlos Sosa promised to sell seized goods from the Port of Houston on the cheap. Many believed him. Until they learned he was a Customs Service snitch, and perhaps a con man on the side.
Courtesy US Customs & Border ProtectionThe dead skin of a Khapra beetle, found in HoustonCustoms officials in Houston made a pretty startling discovery while inspecting a furniture shipment last week. They found some cast-off skins from Khapra beetles among the straw brooms and burlap sacks in the shipping container.So what, you say? Dude, you don't want to mess with the Khapra beetle."The Khapra beetle is considered to be one of the world's most destructive pests of grain products and seeds
Photo by Paul KnightHair Balls was escorted by a customs agent out of the Bush airport today, and we left through a door with a big red sign that said, "Do Not Exit, Alarm Will Sound."
When we exited and the alarm didn't sound, the agent chuckled a bit and said, "That's government."We were at the airport to check out another government device, a new electronic, self-service kiosk for international travelers. Officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection are promoting the kiosk to get more t
​Harris County Republican chair Jared Woodfill is steamed, according to a letter we first found on Isiah Carey's Insite.He is totally pissed and outraged because Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia has "opened the doors" of his office to Al-Jazeera. A, umm, media outlet.Maybe not a media outlet with a viewpoint everyone agrees with, but a media outlet just the same. "As you probably know," Woodfill wrote to "fellow Republicans," "Al-Jazeera has been linked to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, Hamas a
