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A Tarrant County Couple Pimped Out a 15-Year-Old Girl for Four Months, the Feds Say

The ads left little to imagination. The young teen was invariably positioned in soft-porn poses, standing with her hands covering her otherwise naked breasts or lying on the bed in bra and panties or bending over with nearly bare buttocks to the camera. "EXTREEMLy HOTT & HigHLy ADDiCTiVE," screamed ... More >>

Arlington Police Now Have FAA Approval to Use Those Drones They Bought

Last month, we told you that the Arlington Police Department submitted an application to the Federal Aviation Administration in 2012, asking to please be allowed to use the two small remote control drones they bought. The drones were purchased for a little over $200,000 from Leptron Industrial Robo ... More >>

Apocalypse Now(ish): Irvin Baxter's End Times Empire

Death, destruction and the end of humanity: Dallas pastor Irvin Baxter is building a media juggernaut by predicting the very worst.

Texas Wants 'In' on National Immigration Database, But Why It's Necessary Is A Mystery

Yesterday, Texas Secretary of State Esperanza "Hope" Andrade requested access to a federal database of immigration records as a way to ensure that voters are here legally. It's a little like putting border patrol agents at polling stations -- but without the threat of deportation, at least for now. ... More >>

Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold Thinks Undocumented Teens "Had A Say" In Coming To U.S. (Video)

Corpus Christi Congressman Blake Farenthold appeared on CNN yesterday to tell Soledad O'Brien that he disapproves of President Obama's recent executive order, which will keep the Department of Homeland Security from deporting some undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children (for now, a ... More >>

A Guide to How Obama's New Immigration Policy Will Work, And a Word of Caution

President Barack Obama announced Friday afternoon that the Department of Homeland Security will no longer attempt to deport young undocumented immigrants brought here as children, signaling a compassionate shift in an immigration policy whose hallmark was aggressive enforcement and record-shattering ... More >>

When Arizona's Immigration Law is Upheld, the Floodgates of Hate Will Swing Open

The U.S. Supreme Court and President Obama leave the undocumented and their allies no choice but to escalate civil disobedience.

State Rep. Rafael Anchia: Republicans Vulnerable as the Face of Texas Changes

Unfair Park dropped by the Democratic New Leaders Texas PAC meeting at The Kessler last night. The group is billed as a statewide network of Dems "nurturing and promoting the next generation of principled, capable Texas leaders" -- like, for example, the affable and polished state Rep. Rafael Anchia ... More >>

SEC: Local Man Used Phony Cred to Steal Real Millions From Former Dallas Cowboy, 12 Others

​According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Christopher Love Blackwell was -- and remains -- a very good salesman. He told would-be investors he had master's degrees and a PhD from a "prestigious university in Spain." He told them he was a veteran trader. He said he's worked at both Gold ... More >>

It Took a Football Game, But Oncor's Turned On All the Lights On Commerce Street Bridge

Red Oak Kid​Ashley Burton, an Oncor spokesperson, just called with the news: "All of those lights on the Commerce Street viaduct have been repaired and turned on.  I just spoke with someone who was out there to check last night, and they're energized and turned on."Me too, Ashley. After all, ... More >>

Yahoo! Them Huddled Masses Sure are Good for Texas!

Mass deportation, strict border enforcement, amnesty. What will comprehensive immigration reform look like if the feds take action--or if they don't?

The Census Taketh, and the Census Giveth

Illustration by Curt Merlo​More illegals! More illegals over here, please! Ah, you'll have to excuse me. I have been away from my column for weeks with my nose in numbers for an immigration story that appears in this week's paper version of Unfair Park. I may be a little stat-blind. The Census re ... More >>

The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

FAIR-y Tales

Russell Pearce and Other Illegal-Immigration Populists Rely on Misleading, Right-Wing Reports to Scapegoat Immigrants and Terrify Penny-Pinched Americans.

Cowboy Down: Murdered Southern Arizona Rancher Rob Krentz's Family Talk About His Life and Death

For Those Living in Ground Zero for Drug Trafficking Along the U.S.-Mexico Border, the Illegal Immigration Crisis is Personal

Badlands

For Now, And Who Knows For How Long, Dallas County Is Good and Shut Down

​I called over to the Dallas County Commissioners Court a few minutes ago to get an update on clean-up efforts at the Records Building, which flooded last night following a water main break. Good thing I called too: Peggy Lundy in County Judge Jim Foster's office said she's just about to start cal ... More >>

Buzz Gives '09 a One-Fingered Wave Goodbye

Homeland Security Now Considers Dallas One of the "Nation's Highest Risk Urban Areas"

​The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced yesterday that it's giving Dallas $25 million in grant money -- more than in previous years. Why the bump? Says here that's because Dallas, along with Boston and Philadelphia, has been promoted to a "Tier 1" city -- "the highest-risk tier for ter ... More >>

How a Heartwarming, Kick-Ass Father's Day Photo Shoot Ended Up Face Down in Handcuffs on the Addison Airport Tarmac

Danny HurleyThe B24 Liberator offering rides for Father's Day, save for one Observer photographer for whom the name proved ironic at bestSaturday afternoon, friend of the show Danny Hurley sent word that they were offering quite the Father's Day gift out at Addison Airport -- flights on a B-24 Liber ... More >>

License to Drive? Not So Fast, Even If You're a Legal Immigrant With a Valid Work Visa.

A lawsuit filed in Austin on Wednesday has found its way to the Courthouse News Service: Miguel Salazar and Edgar Soria, both of whom live in Dallas County, and Avila Trejo, currently a resident of Denton County, are suing the Texas Department of Public Safety because it refuses to issue them a driv ... More >>

Janet Napolitano’s Sorry Service in Arizona Makes Her a Terrible Choice for Homeland Security Secretary

Keys to the Jail

There's only one thing tougher than running for Dallas County sheriff—getting people to care

Gustav Isn't Screwing Around, and Neither is the City of Dallas

On the Border, Off the Fence

After Being Drugged and Dragged to DFW, A Stay of Execution

Border Residents Feeling Kicked in the Hunt Over That Danged Fence

When Will the Story of Rrustem Neza Get Made Into a Movie?

Who's the Boss?

New Immigration Rules Could Empty Local Kitchens

Tough rules leave restaurants looking for cooks with green cards

No Sanctuary

Long delays in processing asylum claims leave Guatemalans in a bind

"They Treat Us Like We're Nothing"

In Case of Emergency...

Grateful Dead

Dead Rising's zombies will eat your brain--and your free time

Screwdriver of Fact

And The Truth Shall Get Ye Out Of A Ticket

Fake I.D.: Good for Business, Bad for Nation

Sheriff Who?

Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez was a revolutionary candidate--as a leader, not so much

Soft Target

Arlington's "high-threat" status yields a big bump from Homeland Security

Go Greyhound

Federal security team gets the wrong man

Letters

A Texas Welcome

Two UTA students make a wrong turn, end up jailed in Arlington

Sacrificed Fly

What factors make for the ideal wingman?

From Russia, with Love

Just $25,000 gets you a bundle of hot Russian babes from one Dallas matchmaking firm. What more could a rich American geek ever ask for?

:cueless

Buzz hacks through the past in search of the cool cats and fools of the year that was

Knockdown

Top-ranked boxer Jesus "El Matador" Chavez pummels opponents in the ring, but he's losing his biggest fight against a real heavyweight -- the INS

If you crow, you go

Dallas' rooster ban gets a man thrown into the INS tank

Proof of citizenship

The INS is asking the impossible of a Laotian refugee who believes he's an American

Crime and no punishment

A legal loophole lets illegal immigrants get out of jail nearly free