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Immigration Reform Impact On North Texas

There are more than one-point-one million people in Texas without legal status. Demographers estimate 400-thousand of them live in the North Texas area.

CBS 11–2013/01/28

Fewer Healthcare Options For Illegal Immigrants

For years, Sonia Limas dragged her daughters to the ER when they got sick. As an illegal immigrant, she had no health insurance, and it was the only place that she knew to seek treatment.

2012/12/14

Former U.S. President George W. Bush salutes upon arrival at the airport of Gaborone on July 5, 2012. Bush was in Botswana as part of a cervical and breast cancer awareness campaign. (credit: Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP/GettyImages)

Former President George W. Bush Hosts Immigration & Economy Conference

As President, George W. Bush championed comprehensive immigration reform, but his legislation failed in Congress.

2012/12/04

Now former President George W. Bush smiles during a tour of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C. on January 21, 2008. (credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Bush To Host Dallas Conference On Immigration

Former President George W. Bush is set to give opening remarks at a conference on the benefits of immigrants to the U.S. economy.

2012/12/04

Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) speaks to her peers on January 21, 2009 at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. (credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Hutchison Responds To ‘Achieve Act’ Criticism

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s immigration reform proposal is getting a failing grade from some North Texans who argue that it provides no real path to U.S. citizenship.

2012/11/30

Retiring Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Takes On Immigration Reform

Retiring Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas is one of three senators proposing legislation that would help children of immigrants.

CBS 11–2012/11/27

The shadow of a man wearing a cowboy hat falls on a pillar as he enters a polling place. (credit: DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images)

Farmers Branch To Submit New Voting Plan

A suburban Dallas city council has approved a single-member replacement for a municipal voting system struck down by the federal courts.

2012/10/03

Garland soccer coach Bernardo Mondragon-Guzman has been accused of sexually abusing a 10-year-old boy. (credit: Garland Police Department)

More Child Sex Abuse Charges For Garland Coach

Garland police say they plan to file more child sex abuse charges against a youth soccer coach.

CBSDFW.COM–2012/09/24

Border Patrol (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

12 People Charged With Immigrant Smuggling

Federal authorities have charged 12 people with immigrant smuggling and harboring after a roundup netted 28 suspects.

2012/09/19

The American Flag waves. (credit: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

First Set Of Delayed Young Deportees Approved

Just three weeks after the Obama administration started accepting applications from young illegal immigrants seeking to avoid deportation and get a work permit, the government already has approved some of the roughly 72,000 applications the government has received.

2012/09/12

Gabriela Saucedo Mercer (Credit: SaucedoMercer.com)

Opinion: AZ Republican: We Don’t Want Middle Easterners Here

Republican efforts to promote hatred across racial and religious lines are heating up this electoral season. They have found a new warrior to promote the cause in Arizona, Gabriela Saucedo Mercer. Mercer has questioned whether Middle Easterners should be in the US “either legally or illegally”.

2012/08/29

U.S. Border Patrol patch. (Associated Press photo)

Border Balloons Show Surveillance Potential

High-tech balloons equipped with cameras, tethered far above the Texas-Mexico border, have already assisted Border Patrol agents less than two weeks into their testing.

2012/08/23