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Keeping up with the Texas Legislative Session bills

Christian Vasquez, Copy Editor • March 21, 2017

The deadline to introduce a bill to the 85th Texas Legislature was on March 10, and with more than 2,700 bills and resolutions currently in the Senate and 5,200 in the House that were filed in time, there is a lot to go through. The session will end on...

Texas Republicans propose SB 6, the “Bathroom Bill”

Rene Delgadillo, Staff Reporter • January 17, 2017

Senate Bill 6, also known as the Bathroom Bill, proposed by Lt. Governor of Texas Dan Patrick, would require transgender people to use bathrooms in federal buildings, public schools and public universities that match their biological sex and not their...

New Texas bill would allow police to ask for proof of legal status

Maria Esquinca, Copy Editor • April 7, 2015

Viridiana’s aunt has been afraid to come back to El Paso after a police officer told her he was going to call immigration services on her after he gave her a traffic citation. Her aunt, a Mexican citizen with a tourist visa, was picking up her son from...

S.B. 185: More Political BS

Ben Woolridge, Staff Reporter • April 7, 2015

Allowing local law enforcement to ask people, who they detain or arrest, for their legal status is just another political ploy that will only keep our borders broken. El Paso Police officers and Sheriffs’ deputies should not be burdened with extra...

Bill may undo local LGBTQA protections

Alonso Moreno, Staff Reporter • March 3, 2015

Sen. Don Huffines, freshman Republican from Dallas, has filed a bill that would forbid cities from passing or enforcing LGBTQA-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinances. Huffine’s Senate Bill 343 is a proposal that would bar local governments from implementing...

El Chisme Season 2, Episode 4

Prospector Staff • February 27, 2015

Welcome to the second season of El Chisme, where we discuss everything and anything. In this episode the Prospector staff talks about a concealed gun bill that has been approved by the Texas senate affairs committee and is on it's way to approval by the...

Pass the budget

Jasmine Aguilera, Editor-in-chief • October 8, 2013

Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas, said students should not be impacted by the partial government shutdown as long as it reopens before Oct. 17, which marks Congress’s deadline to raise the debt ceiling that could prevent a default. In an Oct. 5 interview,...