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NEW: Texas lawmakers are ordering all sheriff's offices to seek federal collaboration agreements with ICE. Those agreements may be limited to jailhouses—or they may convert deputies into roving immigration agents. 🧵 texasobserver.org/legislature-sh… w/ Gus Bova 🗒️

We talked to Francesca D'Annunzio at the Texas Observer about this a few weeks ago...when it was an option for Texas sheriff's offices to decide whether or not to collaborate with ICE. It's no longer an option. Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hap…

New: Two months ago, a cadre of Texas and federal authorities crashed what they later described as a Tren de Aragua gathering in Hays County and detained 47 people, including kids. Since, the authorities involved in the raid have not said much. 🧵 texastribune.org/2025/06/04/tex…

NEW: NPR has obtained a DHS memo requesting some 20,000 National Guard troops to help a wide variety of ICE tasks including "night operations and rural interdiction," as well as "guard duty and riot control" inside detention facilities. h/t Tom Bowman

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I was diagnosed with a concussion after federal agents shot me in the head with a rubber bullet.

NEW: 161 people still missing in Kerr County due to the Texas floods. That figure includes five Camp Mystic campers and one counselor. Death toll is 109 (94 in Kerr County area, 15 in other areas of the state.)

Cristosal, one of the leading human rights organizations in El Salvador, is suspending operations and going into exile. Their only remaining worker in the country is Ruth López, imprisoned for her work denouncing Bukele's abuses and accompanying Venezuelans sent by the U.S.

NEW: An ex-Marine, convicted of killing three people, was released to the US during the recent prisoner swap w/ Venezuela. He brutally killed people in Spain then fled. Despite US govt claims, a Venezuelan political prisoner NGO does not claim him as such: theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

I spoke with Dora Rodriguez, Tucson-based immigrant activist who nearly died crossing the desert in 1980, about her new memoir. Latest for AZLuminaria azluminaria.org/2025/07/23/loc…