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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has announced plans to build a wall along the state’s border with Mexico. The governor’s proposal comes after President Joe Biden signed an executive order on his first day in office ending border wall construction projects and on the heels of a surge in the number of undocumented immigrants attempting to cross the southern border that began in fall 2020. Abbott has described the border area of Texas as a “Third World Country,” saying that farm and ranch owners are being overwhelmed by “a tidal wav...
U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson will be the next president of the University of Texas at El Paso. The UT System Board of Regents on Friday selected Wilson as the only finalist for the job. She submitted her resignation Friday as Air Force secretary to President Donald Trump, and plans to leave that job May 31, according to a copy of the letter released by the Pentagon. The UT System regents are expected to take a final vote on hiring Wilson in about three weeks. She’d become UTEP president effective Sept. 1, a...
