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TEXAS-MEXICO BORDER
Colleges’ reactions Schools have a year to decide how to implement law By JUDITH RAYO THE ZAPATA TIMES
Now that the Texas governor has signed into law a bill allowing the carrying of handguns on higher education campuses, college officials will have to figure out how they will implement the law.
The “campus carry” law, which takes effect in August 2016, allows higher education instituKECK tions to create reasonable rules and regulations against carrying handguns, including
establishing gun-free zones. However, the regulations cannot “have the effect of generally prohibiting license holders from carrying concealed handguns on the campus,” the law states. Ray Keck, Texas A&M International University president, said Monday that the Texas A&M University Sys-
tem will begin working on a plan to implement the new law. “Our goal will be to implement the law in a manner consistent with the Legislature’s intent, enhancing the safety and well-being of everyone,” Keck said in a state-
Photo by Eric Gay | AP file
In this July 24, 2014 file photo, troopers patrol on the Rio Grand along the border, in Mission, Texas.
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What the TROPICAL STORM BILL border MORE RAIN ACROSS STATE bill can do Is Texas spending $800M to create its own border patrol? By SETH ROBBINS AND PAUL J. WEBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
Photo by Rachel Denny Clow/Corpus Christi Caller-Times | AP
A woman walks back from watching the waves roll over the end of the 29th Street Galveston rock groin Tuesday, in Galveston, Texas as Tropical Storm Bill makes landfall near Matagorda Bay on the Texas Gulf coast.
Texas communities brace for more severe weather By DAVID WARREN ASSOCIATED PRESS
DALLAS — Tropical Storm Bill moved slowly over inland Texas on Tuesday, bringing another round of heavy rains to a state weary from recent deadly floods, evacuations and washed-out
roads. The storm came ashore shortly before noon along Matagorda Island with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Personnel from the Federal Emergency Management
Agency who were sent to Texas and Oklahoma after severe flooding over Memorial Day weekend will remain in the region to help prepare for Tropical Storm Bill and help clean up in its aftermath, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Tuesday. “I’m not afraid; we’ve had
so many storms,” said Maria Cedillo, who stopped by fishing boats docked in Corpus Christi on Tuesday to buy crabs. “When there’s a big one coming we move out. But this isn’t one of them.” According to projections
MCALLEN — When former Gov. Rick Perry ordered a big reinforcement of security at the Mexico border in 2011, Texas bought six new gunboats that can fire 900 rounds a minute and clock highway speeds. But the boats, which cost $580,000 each, spent more time docked than patrolling the Rio Grande. That was a small price tag compared with what Texas is about to spend. The new Republican governor, Greg Abbott, this month approved $800 million for border security over the next two years — more than double any similar period during Perry’s 14 years in office. On Texas’ shopping list is a second $7.5 million high-altitude plane to scan the border, a new border crime data center, a 5,000-acre training facility for border law-enforcement agencies and grants for year-round helicopter flights. The state also wants to hire two dozen Texas Rangers to investigate public corruption along the border and 250 new state troopers as a down payment on a permanent force along the border. Other states along the nearly 2,000-mile Southwest border — New Mexico, Arizona and California — do not come remotely close to the resources Texas has committed. And Texas is doing so long after last year’s surge in undocumented immigrants crossing the border has subsided.
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2016 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY
Jeb Bush announces run By STEVE PEOPLES AND BRENDAN FARRINGTON ASSOCIATED PRESS
MIAMI — Vowing to win the Republican presidential nomination on his own merits, Jeb Bush launched a White House bid months in the making Monday with a promise to stay true to his beliefs — easier said
than done in a bristling primary contest where his conservative credentials will be sharply challenged. “Not a one of us deserves the job by right of resume, party, seniority, family, or family narrative. It’s nobody’s turn,” Bush said, confronting critics who suggest he simply seeks to inherit the office
already held by his father and brother. “It’s everybody’s test, and it’s wide open — exactly as a contest for president should be.” Bush sought to turn the prime argument against his candidacy on its head, casting himself as the true Washington outsider while lashing out at competitors in both parties as being
part of the problem. He opened his campaign at a rally near his south Florida home at Miami Dade College, an institution with a large and diverse student body that symbolizes the nation he seeks to lead. “The presidency should not be passed on from one
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Photo by Lynne Sladky | AP
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush waves before announcing his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, at Miami Dade College.