On Sept. 30, a Texas House select committee will take testimony on a question no Texas Legislature has formally studied: whether the state can absorb counties that currently belong to New Mexico.
The Austin City Council will meet Sept. 24 with four contract amendments on its consent agenda that would add $854,872 to the city's payments to two nonprofits that provide immigration legal services, including what the city's own contract history calls "deportation defense." The vote comes four days after a federal immigration agent shot a 28-year-old Venezuelan delivery driver in North Austin, an incident that has produced two sharply different accounts of what happened, a federal investigation, calls from the mayor and most of the council for an independent inquiry, and a habeas corpus petition in federal court.
Texas Comptroller Don Huffines said the approximately $7.5 billion the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has approved to reimburse Texas for border security costs is the first installment of what the federal government owes the state, according to a Sept. 21 news release from the Comptroller's office.
Gov. Greg Abbott announced Sept. 18 that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has approved a $7.5 billion reimbursement to Texas for border security costs the state absorbed in recent years.
Federal animal health officials lifted movement restrictions on livestock in part of New Mexico on Aug. 30, the first time any area of the United States has come out from under a screwworm control zone since the outbreak began in June.
Mexican cattle began crossing into the United States again on Aug. 24 for the first time since 2025, but not through Texas.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission finished its August business Aug. 20 with a briefing on alligator gar, and then its chairman said something that was not on the agenda.
Cartel fuel trafficking generates an estimated $12 billion to $21 billion a year — and some federal investigators now believe it has passed narcotics as the cartels' top revenue stream, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety told the Senate Select Committee on Homeland and Border Security Thursday.
A drone expert opened the first hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Homeland and Border Security Wednesday with a countdown: "In security terms, today, August 12th is August 12, 2001.
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham sent a cease and desist letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection and contractor Barnard Construction after finding that a federal contractor illegally cleared more than a mile of state land, the Texas General Land Office said in a July 31 news release.