The Texan Podcast - Daily Rundown - March 10, 2025

Episode Date: March 10, 2025

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Howdy folks, today is Monday, March 10th and you're listening to the Texans Daily Rundown. I'm the Texans Assistant Editor Rob Lauschus and here is the rundown of today's news in Texas politics. First up, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas has released information on nearly 200 cases that have been filed regarding illegal immigration, with almost 100 of those including charges of illegal reentry into the U.S. Of those cases, many charged have previous felony convictions regarding narcotics, violent crimes, and other immigration offenses.

Others, over 80 cases, face charges of illegal entry and another 12 are charged with human smuggling. The information from the Southern District of Texas follows a similar press release that detailed how 12 illegal aliens were indicted by a federal grand jury after assaulting two federal correctional officers. Border security and illegal immigration enforcement efforts have ramped up in recent weeks, as the Southern District of Texas has also recently charged and imprisoned a Honduran national in Houston who was convicted on charges of allegedly transporting over 200 illegal

aliens. Stay tuned for more news updates after this short message. Data centers fuel 364,000 Texas jobs, generate $3.5 billion in state and local taxes, and power essential services like banking, healthcare, and video calls. With 21 connected devices per household and soaring data demands, these hubs drive Texas' booming economy, shape its technological future, and keep your data here in the U.S. To learn more, visit centerofyourdigitalworld.org. Now returning to your daily Texas news. Next, the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee held a hearing this week where the discussion and debate centered on birth certificates

and the ability to amend an individual's sex based on gender identity. Senate Bill 406, introduced by Senator Mays Middleton, seeks to regulate how biological sex is recorded by prohibiting future changes to an individual's sex on Texas birth certificates. The term biological sex of a child is defined in the legislation as being determined by sex organs, chromosomes, or endogenous profile. The bill would amend the state health and safety code to require a designated space for recording biological sex as either male or female. The bill explicitly prohibits courts from ordering a birth certificate amendment to

change the biological sex designation unless it falls within certain specified exceptions. In other news, a Texas congresswoman held a virtual town hall on February 20th with Texas immigration lawyers advising illegal aliens on how to avoid deportation and obtain green cards, specifically as a criminal offender or as a domestic abuse victim. She also criticized the recently passed federal Lake and Riley Act and the current presidential administration's border security efforts. The conversation was hosted by Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett alongside self-described CRImmigration attorneys Christina Salazar, Angel Mata, and Kathleen Martinez, the lattermost

of whom was recognized by the Texas House of Representatives through a Representative Cristina Morales resolution in early March. Crockett kicked off the virtual town hall, which was titled Know Your Rights and streamed on YouTube, by saying, quote, Look at this as a conversation between a bunch of girl lawyers about this raggedy administration. Also, the Dallas City Council races for the May 3rd election have taken shape, with challengers to most of the incumbents and some candidates filing court petitions to get on the ballot. In place four, incumbent Carolyn King Arnold is trying to keep her spot

on the ballot, but so far has been declared ineligible by the city secretary's office. She filed an emergency petition with the Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas on Monday, March 3, asking the court to order the Dallas city secretary, Billy Ray Johnson, to accept Arnold's application and place her on the ballot. No decision has yet been issued by the court. Arnold's impediment comes because of a city charter

amendment approved by 69% of voting Dallas residents in November, which prohibits city councilmembers from running again after serving four two-year terms. Amy Ramsey, who ran as a Republican in Texas House District 114, is the only opponent who filed to be a candidate in Place 14 against incumbent Paul Ridley. She was declared ineligible based on a felony conviction from 1996. Last but not least, Texas was recognized as the number one state in attracting the most new business entities for the 13th year in a row, with Governor Greg Abbott touting the state's year of winning the annual Governor's Cup Award and introducing the state's five-year plan for

continued economic growth. There were a total of 1,368 projects across the state in 2024. The Governor's Cup is awarded by Site Selection Magazine to recognize the nation's top-performing state in terms of friendliness towards business expansion and job opportunity, specifically its attractiveness towards business relocation, to which Texas is no stranger. Thanks for listening. To support the Texan, please be sure to visit the is no stranger. Thanks for listening. To support the Texan, please be sure to visit thetexan.news and subscribe to get full access to all of our articles, newsletters and podcasts.