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EAGLE FORD SHALE
Child-care license granted to center ICE looking to change how it houses families By Juan A. Lozano A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
HOUSTON — One of the nation’s largest detention centers for families caught crossing the southern U.S. border has received a temporary residential child-care license amid discussions over whether the federal government will keep using such facilities. The Texas Department
of Family and Protective Services granted the six-month license last week to the 500-bed facility in Karnes City, southeast of San Antonio, agency spokesman Patrick Crimmins said Tuesday. The private prison firm that runs the facility for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had requested it after a federal judge said last year that kids
couldn’t stay in the centers because they weren’t approved to care for children. GEO Group Inc. obtained its license for the Karnes City facility as apprehensions of unaccompanied immigrant children along the southwest border increased by 78 percent for the period from Oct. 1 through March 31 compared to a year earlier, and the number of apprehensions of families more than doubled. “Licensure of the Karnes County Residential Center ... repre-
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sents an important step forward in ICE’s commitment to enhancing oversight and transparency of its family residential centers, which play an important role in maintaining the integrity of our immigration system,” ICE spokeswoman Jennifer Elzea said in an email Tuesday. The Karnes City facility and a 2,400-bed facility in Dilley, also located south of San Antonio, opened in 2014 in response to the arrival of tens of thousands of mothers and children Families continues on A11
OTUMBA, MEXICO
A UNIQUE MAY DAY FESTIVAL FOR BURROS
A sign protesting a proposed waste dump near the South Texas town of Nordheim is shown in 2014.
Town's residents disgusted by waste site's approval By Jim Malewitz TEXAS TRIBUNE
On Tuesday morning, roughly 10 percent of Nordheim residents (population 316 at last count) once again pulled on their yellow “Concerned About Pollution” T-shirts, drove two hours north to Austin and told Texas regulators that they did not want to live next to an oil and gas waste site roughly half their town’s size. Many in the rural DeWitt County community had done some version of this exercise several
times over the past two or three years. They say their way of life would be threatened by a proposed 143-acre facility that would be used to store waste including drill cuttings, oil-based muds, fracking sand and other toxic oilfield leftovers. Most of the residents figured they’d return home officially defeated. They were correct. The Texas Railroad Commission on Tuesday voted 3-0 to allow San Antonio-based Pyote Reclamation Systems to build the facility, effecWaste continues on A11
2016 ELECTION
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Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop in Carmel, Indiana.
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A competitor falls from his donkey during a prelimary race at the annual donkey festival in Otumba, Mexico State, Mexico.
Small town holds annual donkey fair By Leslie Mazoch A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
OTUMBA, Mexico — This is a place where every donkey will have its day — a small town just north of Mexico City that gives the beasts of burden a chance on May Day to kick up their hooves. The annual donkey fair in Otumba attracts up to 40,000 people who come to see the animals compete in costumes and race around a track with jockeys on their backs. Tourists squeeze through the jammed fairgrounds wearing donkey ears and munching on classic fair cuisine, including the local version of burritos
— a dish popular both north and south of the Mexican border that borrows the Spanish word for donkey. Costume themes for the animals ranged from the ride-sharing Uber to preHispanic temples, and Donald Trump was a category in of itself this year. Four families dressed their donkeys in likenesses of the U.S. presidential candidate who has vowed to build a border wall to keep out Mexican immigrants he’s called “rapists.” Adolfo Garcia Aguilar, who works on a cattle farm, said his family pitched in to dress his Donkey continues on A11
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Ted Cruz visits with supporters in Evansville, Indiana, Tuesday.
Trump dashes Ted Cruz’s hopes Donald Trump on his way to Republican nomination By Julie Pace and Scott Bauer ASSOCIATED PRE SS
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A mural outside the "Burrodromo" donkey racetrack advertises the "National Donkey Festival," in Otumba, Mexico State, Mexico.
INDIANAPOLIS — Donald Trump took a major step toward sewing up the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with a victory in Indiana’s primary election, dashing the hopes of rival Ted Cruz and other GOP forces who fear the brash businessman will doom their party in the general election. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were vying for victory in the Democratic primary,
though it was too early to call the race as votes were being tallied. Clinton already is 91 percent of the way to her party’s nomination. While Trump can’t mathematically clinch the GOP nomination with his victory in Indiana, his path now becomes easier and he has more room for error in the remaining primary contests. The real estate mogul will collect at least 45 of Indiana’s 57 delegates, and now needs less than 200 more in upcoming contests. Election continues on A11