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REUTERS/Adrees LatifEAGLE PASS, Texas, Aug 11 (Reuters) - The leafy trees on Magali and Hugo Urbina's 350-acre orchard next to the Rio Grande river in Eagle Pass, Texas, should be bursting with pecans this time of year. Migrants for years have forged the river from Mexico to Eagle Pass, part of increasingly higher numbers of people crossing illegally in recent years. He has accused Biden of failing to enforce migration laws and said he has the authority to "defend" Texas' border. Immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility, with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) tasked with securing the border. ENVIRONMENTAL RISKSIn Eagle Pass, sediment falling into the river from the installation of fences and buoys is already altering the water's flow, according to environmentalists.

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☆ New York woman Barbara Lakin restores old Barbies for migrant girls
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Alaa Elassar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

New York CNN —Barbara Lakin sits on a bus in New York City, her fingers busy sewing blue thread into a tiny dress. On the seat beside her, six disheveled Barbie dolls stick out of her backpack. Cory CurtinUsing old Barbies she buys or donated dolls, Lakin, a New Yorker living in the East Village, restores the toys as gifts for the children. In March, the organization also opened the Little Shop of Kindness, where the migrants can shop for free and young migrant girls can receive the Barbies. This way, she can donate matching Barbie dolls and shirts to father-and-daughter duos who come to the store.

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☆ Opinion | Mayor Adams Turns His Back on Immigrants and New York’s Legacy
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Mara Gay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

He tried to undo a 1981 court decree that requires the city to provide shelter to anyone who needs it. Such services could help migrants acclimate to life in New York City and could ease complaints from neighbors of the hotels the city is using to house many migrants. The Adams administration has been warehousing asylum seekers instead of putting the country’s largest municipal government to work helping them build new lives, in New York or wherever else they may want to go. Ron DeSantis of Florida, the presidential candidate who used asylum seekers for political sport, flying them to the resort island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts at taxpayer expense just to own the libs. Kathy Hochul of New York needs to step in and demonstrate the concern lacking from City Hall.

Persons: —, Adams, Greg Abbott, Ron DeSantis, Kathy Hochul Locations: New York City, New York, Texas, Florida, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, . New York, City, York

CNN —Mexico’s President Andres Manuel López Obrador has condemned Texas’s anti-migrant buoys, calling the border enforcement tactic on the Rio Grande river “inhumane” after bodies were found in the waters that flow along the US-Mexico border. “Abbott shouldn’t act like that; it’s inhumane,” he also said, directly attacking Texas Gov. Two bodies were found in separate incidents by United States and Mexican officials in the Rio Grande river, according to Mexico’s foreign ministry on Wednesday. It is unclear what caused their deaths, though Texas officials have said that they suspect that the person found caught in the floating barrier had died upstream. Texas began installing buoy barriers along portions of the Rio Grande river in July.

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CNN —Texas has separated at least 26 migrant family units on the southern border since July 10 under Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star border initiative, according to Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid immigration attorney Kristin Etter. “This is just a very harsh and cruel detour from the asylum process,” Etter told CNN in an interview Wednesday. This is a shift in Texas DPS policy on the border, Etter says. Children and their mothers were never separated, but instead turned over to the US Border Patrol together,” Texas DPS Communications Chief Travis Considine said in a statement.

Persons: Greg Abbott’s, Kristin Etter, ” Etter, Etter, Greg Abbott's, Brandon Bell, “, Travis Considine, “ It’s, Biden, Abbott Organizations: CNN, Lone Star, Texas Rio, Legal, Texas Department of Public Safety, Trump, US Border Patrol, Etter . Texas Gov, Biden, Getty, Texas DPS, DPS, ”, ” Texas DPS Communications, Houston Chronicle, Border Patrol, US Department of Justice Locations: Texas, Eagle, , Texas, Etter, ” Texas, Kristin Etter Texas Rio, Mexico, Rio

☆ Texas attorney general Paxton seeks dismissal of impeachment articles
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Brad Brooks | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

July 31 (Reuters) - Lawyers for suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday asked the state Senate to dismiss all but one of the articles of impeachment against him. All 31 members of the Texas Senate make up the court of impeachment. It was not immediately known when the senators would vote on Paxton's motions. Texas' Republican-dominated House in May voted to impeach Paxton, a conservative firebrand backed by former President Donald Trump. That budget request is what triggered Paxton's impeachment by the House.

Persons: Ken Paxton, Paxton, Donald Trump, Gov, Dan Patrick, Greg Abbott, Angela Colmenero, Brad Brooks, Gerry Doyle Organizations: Texas, Monday, Texas Senate, Republican, Senate, Thomson Locations: Texas, Paxton, Lubbock , Texas

☆ RFK Jr's super PAC is mostly funded by a GOP megadonor who spent millions on Trump and bankrolled an effort to build a border wall in Texas
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A major super PAC backing RFK Jr's campaign is mostly funded by Timothy Mellon. Mellon has given millions to GOP campaigns, including Trump, and bankrolled a border wall effort in Texas. Mellon cited Kennedy's "bipartisan support" in a statement to CNBC on his contribution to the super PAC. That includes:$20 million in contributions to America First Action, a super PAC that supported former President Donald Trump's 2020 re-election campaign. $30 million to Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC associated with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Persons: Timothy Mellon, Mellon, He's, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, —, Kennedy, Kennedy's, Donald Trump's, Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell, Greg Abbott, Andrew Mellon, Gavin De Becker, De Becker, Biden, he's Organizations: PAC, RFK, GOP, Trump, Service, Democratic, Federal, CNBC, Republican, America, Congressional Leadership Fund, Leadership Fund, Republican Gov Locations: bankrolled, Texas, Wall, Silicon, Mexico

☆ A teacher said she was fired from a Texas school after 20 years and 'treated like a criminal' for attending a drag show
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Texas teacher said the Christian school where she worked fired her after she went to a drag show. Maris told ABC 13 that the school treated her and the other teacher "like criminals." "They're entertainers," Maris told the outlet. Drag shows and trans people have been targeted through legislation across the country in states like Tennessee, which banned gender-affirming care for minors and put strict limits on drag shows that a federal judge later found "unconstitutionally vague." Critics say that the law is intended to target drag shows and members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Persons: Kristi Maris, Maris, Hamburger, Hamburger Mary's, Kristi, Nanci, Houston, Greg Abbott Organizations: Service, Mary's, First Baptist Academy, ABC, Facebook, Baptist Christian Academy, Gov, The Texas Tribune Locations: Texas, Wall, Silicon, Houston, Baytown , Texas, Tennessee

☆ Gov. Abbott’s Policing of Texas Border Pushes Limits of State Power
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( J. David Goodman | More About J. David Goodman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Along Texas’ 1,200-mile-long border with Mexico, state troopers routinely arrest migrants for trespassing. Texas National Guard troops unspool razor wire along the banks of the Rio Grande. Greg Abbott has been testing the legal limits of what a state can do to enforce immigration law. He has overseen aggressive deterrence by state police officers at the border and mounted a brazen challenge to federal authority by placing a floating barrier in the middle of the Rio Grande. In the small border city of Eagle Pass, the state police bulldozed vegetation from a sandbar in the middle of the river last month to create a new security outpost.

Persons: Greg Abbott, Abbott Organizations: Texas National Guard, Gov, Lone Star, Republican Locations: Texas, Mexico, Rio Grande . State, Rio Grande, Eagle

☆ Publishers, booksellers sue Texas over public school book ban
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Joseph Ax | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

July 26 (Reuters) - A coalition of booksellers, authors and publishers has sued Texas seeking to block a new state law that bans "sexually explicit" books from public schools. Vendors that do not participate will be barred from selling any books to Texas schools. Any books rated explicit cannot be sold to public schools and must be recalled from libraries. Republican Governor Greg Abbott has said the Texas law protects children, declaring that it "gets that trash out of our schools" when he signed it in June. In May, the writers' group PEN America and others sued a Florida school district for banning books dealing with LGBTQ and race issues.

Persons: Greg Abbott, Joseph Ax, Colleen Jenkins, Bill Berkrot Organizations: Republican, Texas Education Agency, PEN America, American Library Association, Thomson Locations: Texas, Austin, Florida, Arkansas

☆ Why there's a chain of wrecking ball-sized buoys in the Rio Grande
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Erica Star Domena | Tamara Lindstrom | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Greg Abbott installed a 1,000-foot-long chain of wrecking ball-sized buoys to block migrants crossing from Mexico, and the Department of Justice is suing him for it.

Persons: Greg Abbott Organizations: Texas Gov, Department of Justice Locations: Mexico

☆ Scorching temperatures are making delivery a dangerous job — and it's only getting worse
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Even outside the hottest US states, heat that delivery workers aren't used to can be dangerous. Several delivery driver deaths have triggered changes. In recent years, delivery drivers reporting heat-related illnesses were second only to construction workers, according to OSHA statistics reported by E&E News. The 2022 death of 24-year-old Esteban Chavez, a UPS driver in Southern California, made national headlines. But his death came less than a year before the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which represents UPS workers, began re-negotiating its contract with UPS.

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In the past two years, book bans have surged in the United States, driven by conservative activists who have targeted books about race and racism or L.G.B.T.Q. While the fight has largely centered on books that are available in school classrooms and libraries, the legislation in Texas has drawn booksellers directly into the conflict. “Some school libraries have books with sexually explicit and vulgar materials,” he said during the bill signing session. But the plaintiffs said that the Texas law would take decisions out of the hands of schools and parents and put the burden on vendors instead. The law’s opponents also argue the legislation will increase the number of book bans in Texas, which already leads the country in removing books from schools, according to an analysis by the free speech organization PEN America.

Persons: Greg Abbott, ”, “ Organizations: PEN America Locations: United States, Texas

☆ Bannon co-defendant Shea sentenced to 5-1/4 years over 'We Build the Wall' fraud
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Luc Cohen | Thomson Reuters | Reports On The New York Federal Courts. Previously Worked As A Correspondent In Venezuela | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Timothy Shea's sentence was the longest imposed over the "We Build the Wall" campaign, which federal prosecutors said raised more than $25 million from hundreds of thousands of donors. Two other defendants, who pleaded guilty, received shorter prison terms. Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was also charged in the case, but Trump pardoned him in the final hours of his presidency. Two other defendants, the campaign's leader Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato, pleaded guilty and were sentenced in April to 4-1/4 years and three years in prison, respectively. Bannon was criminally charged last September by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg with state law violations arising from the wall campaign.

Persons: Donald Trump, Greg Abbott, Callaghan O'Hare, Donald, Timothy Shea's, Steve Bannon, Trump, Shea, Analisa Torres, Torres, Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato, Bannon, Attorney Alvin Bragg, Luc Cohen, Matthew Lewis Organizations: Texas, REUTERS, Trump, District, U.S, Prosecutors, Manhattan, Attorney, Thomson Locations: U.S, Mexico, Pharr , Texas, Manhattan, Rock , Colorado, New York

☆ Texas governor to defy DOJ request to remove floating barriers in Rio Grande: ‘Texas will see you in court, Mr. President’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Chris Boyette Priscilla Alvarez | Chris Boyette | Priscilla Alvarez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Greg Abbott will not be ordering floating barriers to be removed from the Rio Grande, in defiance of the US Department of Justice. The Justice Department gave Texas a deadline of Monday at 2 p.m. ET to commit to the removal of the floating border barriers or face legal action, according to the letter sent to Abbott. The governor’s actions are cruel and putting both migrants and border agents in danger,” White House spokesman Abdullah Hasan said. Among the complaints are reports that Texas troopers were told to push back migrants into the Rio Grande and ordered not to give them water.

Persons: Greg Abbott, “, ” Abbott, Joe Biden, ”, Abbott, Abbott’s, Abdullah Hasan, Ted Cruz, Biden’s Organizations: CNN, Texas Gov, US Department of Justice, DOJ, Justice Department, Texas, The, Department gave Texas, Republican, Texas Constitution, Patrol, Department of Homeland Security, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Justice, Texas Department of Public Safety, DPS Locations: Rio Grande, “ Texas, Texas, Mexico, United States, Rio

WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Monday sued Texas over floating barriers installed by the state in the Rio Grande river to block migrants crossing from Mexico. "This floating barrier poses threats to navigation and public safety and presents humanitarian concerns." The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Texas, seeks "to remove all structures and obstructions, including a floating barrier and all infrastructure related to the floating barrier, in the Rio Grande," according to the court filing. In recent months, National Guard troops have strung up razor wire to block migrants from crossing the Rio Grande. The number of migrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally has dropped since Biden implemented a restrictive new asylum policy in May.

Persons: Greg Abbott's, Vanita Gupta, Jaime Esparza, Abbott, Joe Biden, Biden, Eric Beech, Kanishka Singh, Tyler Clifford, Tim Ahmann, Bill Berkrot, Sonali Paul Organizations: U.S . Justice, Monday, Texas, Texas Republican, Lone Star, Western District of, Western, Democratic, Fox News, Biden, United States Supreme, National Guard, Thomson Locations: Rio, Mexico . Texas, Eagle, , Texas, Texas, U.S, Western District, Western District of Texas, Rio Grande, Mexico

☆ Justice Department Sues Texas Over Floating Barrier in Rio Grande
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( J. David Goodman | More About J. David Goodman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Justice Department filed suit on Monday against the State of Texas over its installation of a floating barrier meant to stop people from swimming across the Rio Grande, arguing that the interlocking buoys placed in the river by the state violated federal law. Greg Abbott of Texas, who heralded the installation of the 1,000-foot barrier this month, refused a request from the Justice Department to remove the buoys voluntarily, vowing instead to fight in court to keep them in place. Mr. Abbott has blamed President Biden for the large numbers of migrants crossing the border illegally. “If you truly care about human life, you must begin enforcing federal immigration laws,” Mr. Abbott wrote in a letter to President Biden on Monday. State police officers have been shouting at migrants to turn back and, in some cases, refusing to provide water to people who request it.

Persons: Greg Abbott of Texas, Abbott, Biden, ” Mr, “ Organizations: Department, State of, Gov, Justice Department, Rio Grande . State Locations: State of Texas, Rio, Texas, Rio Grande .

☆ Biden administration sues Texas governor over Rio Grande buoy barrier that’s meant to stop migrants
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Migrants seeking asylum rest on an island while attempting to cross the Rio Grande river into the United States on July 18, 2023 in Eagle Pass, Texas. Greg Abbott over a floating barrier that the state placed on the Rio Grande to stop migrants from crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. The suit also claims that Texas unlawfully installed the barrier along without permission near the border city of Eagle Pass. In anticipation of the lawsuit, Abbott sent President Joe Biden a letter Monday that defended Texas' right to install the barrier. The letter said the buoy wall "poses a risk to navigation, as well as public safety, in the Rio Grande River, and it presents humanitarian concerns."

Persons: Greg Abbott, Biden, Abbott, Joe Biden Organizations: The, Department, Monday, Texas Republican Gov, Democratic, Texas, Water Commission, U.S . Army Corps of Engineers Locations: Grande, United States, Eagle Pass , Texas, Rio, Mexico, Texas, Eagle, Rio Grande

☆ Opinion | Rising Heat Deaths Are Not Just About the Temperature
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Tish Harrison Warren | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Much like Covid-19 endangers and affects everyone, but has disproportionally affected historically disadvantaged communities, heat deaths expose deep societal inequality. Soaring heat deaths represent a societal failure. Then there are times when these deaths are caused by a sin of commission — an intentional act of greed and callousness. They drive home on roads made by the workers whose lives they are endangering. They pull inside their garages, close the door to the blistering heat and enter their comfortable homes, where their family members do not have to worry about dying of heat.

Persons: Charles Murray, Alfredo Garza Jr, Greg Abbott of Organizations: Gov Locations: Covid, ”, Laredo, Greg Abbott of Texas, Austin, Dallas, Texas

☆ How Samsung and Texas Instruments made the Lone Star State the hub of U.S. chip manufacturing
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Katie Tarasov | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Samsung, Texas Instruments, Infineon, GlobalWafers, NXP, X-FAB and Applied Materials have all ramped up Texas operations in recent months. Texas Instruments' fab in Sherman, a town of 45,000 people 60 miles north of Dallas, is an even bigger investment. Texas Instruments was founded in 1930 as Geophysical Service Inc., adopting its current name in 1951. CNBC interviewed Flessner at Texas Instruments' RFAB2 fab in Richardson, Texas, a suburb just north of Dallas. Water and powerTexas Instruments' $17 billion chip fab project in Sherman, Texas, on June 15, 2023.

Persons: It's, Greg Abbott, Abbott, Melissa Hebert, Infineon's, Katie Tarasov, Andrew Evers, it's, Austin that's, Jon Taylor, Taylor, David Plyler, Plyler, Jack Kilby, Kyle Flessner, Flessner, Andrew Evers Flessner, Austin fabs Organizations: Samsung, Republican Texas Gov, CNBC, Lone Star State, Texas Instruments, Infineon, Apple, Intel, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, Texas, Service Inc, TI, Local, Texas -, Texas Water, Taylor, Texans Locations: Austin , Texas, South Korean, Sherman , Texas, Texas, China, Taiwan, that's, Arizona, , Texas, Austin, Taylor, U.S, United States, Sherman, Dallas, Richardson , Texas, Richardson, Texoma, Texas - Oklahoma

☆ A Texas state trooper said Gov. Greg Abbott's border security has 'stepped over a line into the inhumane' with razor wire 'traps' and direction to withhold water from migrants, per reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Several Texas troopers said border security was given orders to push migrants back into the water. The Texas Department of Safety said the allegations are under internal investigation. Migrants crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico walk past large orange buoys deployed by Texas border security. According to the Chronicle, Wingate urged for policy changes to improve safety for the migrants, including removing the order to deny migrants water. A spokesperson for the Texas Department of Safety did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Persons: Greg Abbott, Eric Gay, Nicholas Wingate, Wingate, Travis Considine, Considine, Abbott, Breitbart Organizations: Texas Gov, Texas, Texas Department of Safety, Service, Texas Department of Public Safety, Houston Chronicle, Hearst, Operation Lone Star, National Guard and Department of Public, New York Times, state's Department of Public, The Times, US Border Patrol, Associated Press, Department of Safety, Troopers, Twitter, Times, National Guard Locations: Wall, Silicon, Mexico, Rio Grande, Eagle, Texas, Wingate

[1/3] Asylum-seekers arrive at the Roosevelt Hotel where migrants are currently being housed in New York City, U.S., May 19, 2023. REUTERS/David 'Dee' Delgado/File PhotoWASHINGTON, July 19 (Reuters) - New York City will distribute flyers at the U.S.-Mexico border telling newly arrived migrants to "consider another city" and limit shelter stays for adult asylum seekers to 60 days as the city's Democratic mayor says it is straining to house them. New York City says that it has provided services to 90,000 migrants since last spring and that nearly 55,000 remain in its care. Thousands of those migrants arrived on buses sent by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican who has tried to shift the burden of receiving them to Democratic strongholds. "Please consider another city as you make your decision about where to settle in the U.S.," it reads in English and Spanish.

Persons: David, Dee, Delgado, Eric Adams, Greg Abbott, Adams, Joe Biden, Ted Hesson, Aurora Ellis Organizations: Roosevelt, REUTERS, WASHINGTON, Democratic, Texas, Republican, New York, Legal Aid Society, Coalition, Homeless, Thomson Locations: New York City, U.S, Mexico, York City, New York, Washington

☆ DOJ says it’s assessing the situation along the Texas-Mexico border amid ‘troubling reports’ over migrant treatment
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Priscilla Alvarez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

“The department is aware of the troubling reports, and we are working with DHS and other relevant agencies to assess the situation,” DOJ spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa told CNN. CNN previously reported that the Department of Homeland Security and Justice Department were in ongoing discussions about what actions could be taken against the state. That suit lists the state of Texas and Abbott, as well as the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas National Guard. But it wouldn’t mark the first time the Justice Department has sued on border-related matters. Last year, the Justice Department sued Arizona for placing shipping containers along the US southern border – a move taken by then-Republican Gov.

Persons: Xochitl Hinojosa, Steve McCraw, Greg Abbott’s, ”, Biden, Karine Jean, Pierre, ” Jean, –, Abbott, Doug Ducey Organizations: CNN, The Justice Department, Texas, DHS, of Public Safety, Operation Lone Star, Democratic, Department of Homeland Security, Justice Department, Gov, –, Department of Justice, Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas National Guard, Texas Department of Public, Arizona, Republican Locations: Texas, Mexico, Rio, White, Arizona

☆ Heat wave puts small businesses under pressure as temperatures – and bills – keep climbing
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Heat waves are hitting individuals and small businesses the hardest, reports say. The record heat is bad for the finances as well as the health of the most vulnerable. While grids appear to be coping with extra demand from the heat wave afflicting tens of millions of Americans, some small businesses and residents are under extra pressure. California, Arizona, and Texas have hit temperatures well above that level this summer. According to data from the association, domestic energy bills will jump almost 12% this summer to an average of $578, up from $517.

Persons: we're, Karen Swearingen, Greg Abbott, Mark Wolfe Organizations: Service, Reliability, of Texas, NBC DFW, Burger, Street Journal, Gov, University of Roehampton, National Energy Assistance, Association Locations: California , Arizona, Texas, Europe, Houston, England . California , Arizona, Phoenix , Arizona

☆ Texas construction workers protest after Greg Abbott axed mandated water breaks, calling it 'the law that kills'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Katie Hawkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Greg Abbott signed a law nixing mandated water breaks across the state. Now construction workers and their allies are protesting the move, calling it "the law that kills." As a result, construction workers and their allies are calling it "the law that kills," the Texas Tribune reports. "We really need to be allowed to work without problems, without any barriers," Luz Martínez, a Texas construction employee who was at the protest, told the Texas Tribune. There have been 42 heat-related workplace deaths in Texas since 2011, the most of any state, according to the Texas Tribune.

Persons: Greg Abbott, —, Luz Martínez, Abbott, Felipe Pascual, Pascual Organizations: Texas Gov, Service, Privacy, Workers, Gov, Texas Tribune, ABC, CNN, Occupational Health, Safety Administration, New York Times Locations: Texas, Wall, Silicon, Houston

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