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The Texas Senate has advanced a bill to study the costs to the state of undocumented immigration. Republicans blocked any consideration in the proposed study of the economic benefits such immigrants contribute to the state.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/immigration/2025/04/22/519447/senate-advances-bill-requiring-annual-report-on-costs-to-texas-of-undocumented-immigration/

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The Texas Senate passed a bill late Tuesday that would let teachers pray or engage in religious speech in public school classrooms.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/religion/2025/04/02/517474/texas-senate-passes-bill-allowing-teachers-to-pray-engage-in-religious-speech-in-the-classroom/

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