Texas Standard For September 3, 2018
As Texans headed out for the long holiday weekend, a surprise ruling in a Texas courtroom over a challenge to DACA. That’s the Obama-era program protecting young immigrants brought here illegally from being deported. Now a judge in Texas, considered sympathetic to the state’s desire to stop DACA, refuses to pull the plug. Why does Attorney General Ken Paxton think he’s closer to victory? We’ll find out. And: Labor Day signals the final sprint in the race to election day. We’ll size up the top races across Texas. Also: A resurgence of unions? In the Lone Star State? The numbers say yes. All of that and a whole lot more today on the Texas Standard:
Beth Cortez-Neavel/Texas Standard
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