Harris County Grand Jury: Kill An Immigrant, Go Scot Free

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Jun 30

Today, a Harris County grand jury decided that Joe Horn should not be charged for shooting the two immigrants he confronted outside his neighbor’s home in Pasadena.
Horn, 62, came under intense public scrutiny after the Nov. 14 shootings. Many supporters praised him as a hero for using deadly force to protect property, while as a [...]

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Texas Progressive Alliance Blog Round-Up: 06/30/2008

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Jun 30

It’s Monday, and that means it is time for yet another edition of the Texas Progressive Alliance’s weekly blog round-up. Posts included in the round up are submitted each week by Alliance member blogs. This week’s round-up is compiled by Vince from Capitol Annex.
Maybe PDiddie at Brains and Eggs was wrong about Obama and Texas. [...]

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XP the Radical and Soon to be Uncle

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Jun 29

Once in while I do get personal on here and this is will be one of those times. On Saturday, I was at another anti-Corrections Corporation of America protest. My good friends at Houston Indy Media, Gislaine and RoB had taken some pictures of the protest. I happen to be in one of those photos.

But [...]

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Sheriff’s Department’s Gator Cruelty and Literal Illegal Baiting

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Jun 28

The following email was obtained by our local ABC affiliate, ABC 13, from the Harris County Sheriff’s Department as a result of a lawsuit from an undercover investigation.
The email reads: “With a little planning they easily could have transplanted it to the Rio Grande River. Now that should have cut down on the illegal migration [...]

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Report From the Houston East End Raid Protest

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Jun 27

More than 100 community members and organizations met in front of the George Thomas “Mickey” Leland Federal Building yesterday to denounce the raid that took place Wednesday at Action Rags U.S.A. in the heart of Houston’s East End. According to local CBS affiliate, KHOU, agents arrested 166 of the 186 employees. ICE released 73 people [...]

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