Immigrants

State Superintendent Ryan Walters reissued a request Wednesday to Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond after Drummond refused to issue a formal opinion on a Trump executive order.

U.S. officials said this strategy seeks to distance deported individuals from Mexico’s northern border, making immediate re-entry more difficult and discouraging further attempts to cross the border.

The state of Texas has spent more than $845,000 flying migrants to New York, Philadelphia and Chicago.

The flight comes after Chicago officials reportedly cracked down on buses coming from Texas with immigrant passengers. Since last year, Texas has bused over 80,000 immigrants to Democratic-led cities across the U.S.

In the past two decades, the number of Buddhist congregations in the Wichita area has roughly doubled.

About 40 migrants were transported to Los Angeles from Texas earlier this week as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s ongoing effort to have so-called sanctuary cities take the burden off Texas border towns.

Still others tepidly applaud the administration's efforts to allow for more legal migration.

Texas is one of 20 states suing the Biden administration over a program that allows migrants from other countries to come to the U.S. temporarily.

The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday to keep Title 42 in place until a case between multiple GOP-led states and the Biden administration is resolved.

“One of the [desired] outcomes of such actions is that people will just be frightened. And I think that's just unproductive under the circumstances.”