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Texas cracks down on migrants but dozens of trespassing cases fall flat

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By Alexandra Ulmer DEL RIO, Texas (Reuters) – Gaston, a 57-year-old Venezuelan human rights lawyer, spent years visiting the country’s most squalid prisons as he defended students jailed for protesting its socialist government. Fearing retaliation by the authorities for his work, Gaston decided to flee, heading to the U.S.-Mexico border to seek asylum in the United States. On Aug. 8, he waded across the Rio Grande into Texas, hoping to surrender to U.S border officials. Instead he was arrested by Texas state troopers, court records show. It was one of roughly 1,600 trespassing arrests of recen…

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Hispanics led home-buying surge last year. Here’s how Latino first-time buyers closed the deal

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After noticing home prices begin to soar across the state during the COVID-19 pandemic, Albanita Erebia and her fiancé Daniel Savala knew they needed to act quickly. “We were scared the market was going to keep going up,” Savala said, who has three children with one more on the way with Erebia. After three months of searching and placing failed bids on multiple properties, Erebia, 32, and Savala, 40, found their perfect starter home: a $310,000 single-family home in North Sacramento.

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article253990693.html#storylink=cpy

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