Texas ObserverFrom Gaige Davila: Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years. https://www.texasobserver.org/immigration-court-interpreter-arrested-ice-south-texas-airport/
Yesterday: “This is someone who maybe had one speeding ticket in the last 30 years and [is] being treated like a notorious criminal.”
Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu translator taken by #ICE. https://www.texasobserver.org/immigration-court-interpreter-arrested-ice-south-texas-airport/
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New today: “It is kind of crazy that a journalist can be arrested for doing her job, and there’s nothing she can do about it in terms of bringing officers who arrested her into the court and having to answer for what they did.” https://www.texasobserver.org/la-gordiloca-lost-supreme-court-won-laredo/
#journalism #law #politics #USpol #SouthTexas #Texas #FirstAmendment
‘La Gordiloca’ Lost at the Supreme Court but Won in Laredo
The citizen-journalist and social media provocateur's case against local officials was thrown out in a decision that horrified First Amendment advocates. But, at home, observers say arresting her proved more trouble for the government than it was worth.
New from Jason Buch: First Amendment advocates are horrified at the decision in the legal case of this citizen journalist and provocateur, and its implications for media everywhere.
But Priscilla Villarreal remains defiant. https://www.texasobserver.org/la-gordiloca-lost-supreme-court-won-laredo/
#FirstAmendment #journalism #politics #USpol #news #Texas #SouthTexas
‘La Gordiloca’ Lost at the Supreme Court but Won in Laredo
The citizen-journalist and social media provocateur's case against local officials was thrown out in a decision that horrified First Amendment advocates. But, at home, observers say arresting her proved more trouble for the government than it was worth.
From our magazine: The butterfly’s migration has transformed it into a symbol for #immigration reform. To supporters of immigrants’ rights, it represents a possibility for a new paradigm, a world in which traversing borders is not fatal but natural. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-plight-of-the-monarch/
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MineEyesDazzleApril 12, 2026 Statement on the Detention of Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar | We don't have so many EM physicians in the Rio Grande Valley that south #Texas communities won't suffer for these cruel & stupid decisions. https://www.acep.org/news/acep-newsroom-articles/4-12-26-statement-on-the-detention-of-dr.-rubeliz-bolivar #DHS #ICE #ACEP #EMRA #TCEP #SouthTexas #TX
Statement on the Detention of Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA) are aware of and deeply concerned by the detention of Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar, an ACEP member and emergency medicine resident at the South Texas Health System in McAllen, Texas
Featured story: Truly, there’s something timeless about Castroville—though time comes for every town. It is a storied place, too, though not all stories are equally remembered. https://www.texasobserver.org/time-comes-for-castroville/
#Texas #history #SouthTexas #politics #USpol #culture #racism
Featured story: From trucks loaded with buoys driving through Southmost's pothole-ridden streets in Brownsville to shipments of steel #border wall panels hauled down Valley highways, the rapid spending of taxpayer dollars is visible all around the region. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-border-wall-rio-grande-valley/
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After 20 Years of Resistance, Trump Is Walling Off the Rio Grande Valley
Even sites once protected by Congress, including a butterfly refuge and a historic church, are slated for fencing funded by the “one big beautiful bill”—while the river itself is transformed by a floating barrier.
For years, scientists have projected that South #Texas would grow hotter and drier—that droughts would lengthen, that rainfall would become less reliable, and #water systems built for a wetter century would face conditions they were never designed to absorb. https://www.texasobserver.org/corpus-christi-water-crisis-climate-projections/
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Featured, from our magazine: April Maria Ortiz has a troubled history with her adopted home, and the #racism and segregation she experienced there. Yet when she researched its actual #history, Castroville turned out to be even more complex than she expected. https://www.texasobserver.org/time-comes-for-castroville/