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Truckers block the entrance into the Santa Teresa Port of Entry in Ciudad Juarez going into New Mexico on April 12, 2022. The truckers blocked the port as a protest to the prolonged processing times implemented by Gov. Abbott which they say have increased from 2-3 hours up to 14 hours in the last few days. (Omar Ornelas /The El Paso Times via AP)

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Texas halts truck inspections that caused border gridlock
By PAUL J. WEBER - Associated Press
Fri,04/15/22-3:50PM , 128 Reads
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday repealed his traffic-clogging immigration order that backed up commercial trucks at the U.S.-Mexico border, after a week of intensifying backlash and fears of deepening economic losses.
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Demonstrators gather on the steps to the State Capitol to speak against transgender-related legislation bills being considered in the Texas Senate and Texas House, May 20, 2021 in Austin, Texas. No texts or emails that leave paper trails. Unusually close oversight. Texas child welfare workers who have quit over Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's first-of-its-kind directive in the U.S. to investigate families of transgender youth for abuse say rushed new protocols appear designed to tilt the outcome of cases from the outset and find parents at fault. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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Caseworkers: Texas order on trans kids handled differently
By PAUL J. WEBER - Associated Press
Thu,03/31/22-10:48PM , 87 Reads
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — When Texas Gov.
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Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks about the United States-Mexico border during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, July 30, 2021. The 2022 midterm election season opens Tuesday, March 1, in Texas. Cuellar is facing a progressive challenger just weeks after FBI agents raided his home. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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2022 midterm elections: What to know ahead of Texas' primary
By PAUL J. WEBER - Associated Press
Sun,02/27/22-11:17PM , 119 Reads
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The 2022 midterm election season opens Tuesday in Texas, where voters will pick their nominees for governor, attorney general, congressional seats and more.
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A marcher prays ahead of the North Texas March for Life, celebrating the passage and court rulings upholding the Texas law known as Senate Bill 8, on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, in Dallas. Abortion isn't taking center stage in Texas' first-in-the-nation primary. The March 1, 2022 primary will mark six months that Texas clinics have operated under a law that bans abortion after roughly six weeks of pregnancy. (Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File)

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Abortion recedes from spotlight in Texas' primary election
By PAUL J. WEBER - Associated Press
Fri,02/18/22-7:24AM , 104 Reads
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — As the right to an abortion in the U.S. hangs in doubt, one thing seemed clear at the outset of 2022: the issue would tower over America's midterm elections.

But in Texas — of all places — that hasn't been the case going into the nation's first primary.
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