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Details emerge Mom pushed boy into doorjamb By CÉSAR G. RODRIGUEZ THE ZAPATA TIMES
Records obtained Tuesday on a capital felony case allege a woman pushed her 22-month-old son against a doorjamb, causing “traumatic injuries.” The child, Roberto Saldivar III, then began stretching and stiffening, accord-
ing to court documents. Air Evac flew the boy from San Ygnacio to a McAllen hospital, where the child died July 30. His death prompted a capital murder charge on the mother, Irene Yamiles Del Bosque-Saldivar, 19. She was arrested Aug. 28. Del Bosque-Saldivar is behind bars at the Zapata
County Jail. The Zapata County Sheriff ’s Office said the case unfolded July 25. At 9:28 p.m., deputies were called out to traffic control due to Air Evac picking up a patient at a gas station in San Ygnacio. On arrival, deputies
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Safe border is common concern By ALFREDO CORCHADO THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
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AUSTIN — More than 600 descendants of a Mexican settler have sued Texas over the alleged 1870s seizure of a royal land grant, claiming that they are entitled to the mineral revenue the state has collected for years. Joaquin Galan received a land grant from the Spanish king more than two centuries ago. His heirs say it was illegally seized in the 1870s. The state still owns about 40,000 acres of the land northwest of Laredo. The family filed a lawsuit in July in Travis County District Court, the Austin American-Statesman reported. The main defendant is the General Land Office, whose commissioner is George P. Bush. “The land was pretty inhospitable,” Tony Zavaleta, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Brownsville who helped a coal company survey the land in the 1980s told the newspaper. “Who knew that it was sitting on a sea of minerals?” Land grants are a source of pride and pain among generations of Hispanics in
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In this Sept. 10, 2014 file photo, detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, a temporary home for immigrant women and children detained at the border, in Karnes City, Texas.
Lawyers say ‘real policy’ not established By JULIÁN AGUILAR TEXAS TRIBUNE
Two weeks after a federal judge ordered that the majority of women and children being held in Texas immigration detention centers be released, attorneys said they are making moderate progress in securing their clients’ freedom.
But they also claim the government hasn’t established clear criterion spelling out who gets released and when. “We are seeing more and more that [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] is releasing people but sometimes without an explanation,” Luis Mancheno, an attorney with the New York-
based Immigrant Justice Corps, said last week. “What I feel is so disturbing right now is that after the judge’s decision, some people are being released and there is no real policy behind it.” The women and children are part of last summer’s surge when tens of thousands of un-
documented families and unaccompanied children from Central America entered Texas illegally and surrendered to U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley. On August 21, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee gave the Obama administration until late October
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The South Texas Family Residential Center is the largest of the nation’s three immigration detention centers for families, housing up to 2,400, and has drawn criticism from immigrants and advocates.
MEXICO CITY — Gov. Greg Abbott said Monday that the most “pleasant and biggest surprise” during his three-day visit with high-ranking Mexican officials was hearing their willingness to help Texas secure the border. In a brief interview with Texas reporters, Abbott said he’s been impressed with how, “behind closed doors, Mexico has shown great support for securing the border.” “In all my talks with all Mexican officials, no one has said anything negative about what Texas has done on the border,” Abbott said. “To the contrary, they have talked about ways in which they can better secure the border and better collaborate with Texas.” Abbott’s observations came during his first international trip as governor, a three-day visit to Mexico amid tensions over border security, and he sought to balance those concerns with prospects of greater economic integration. The visit ended Tuesday with a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto at Los Pinos, the presidential residence. Abbott is expected to invite Peña Nieto to visit Texas in the coming months, and the two leaders are expected to announce initiatives on issues ranging from border infrastructure to water. Mexican officials have expressed
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