A&M provost: Report ICE to campus cops | “Death Star” bill upheld on appeal | Employment booming – Pratt on Texas 7/18/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas A&M’s provost and executive vice president Alan Sams sounds like an official of Leftist universities such as NYU or Columbia? (Maybe that’s where he should be working…) Sams sent an email to faculty, staff, and graduate students telling them to report any sightings if ICE on campus to the campus cops. He also stressed how “privacy” is of the “utmost importance” in a context making it appear the A&M will not share the illegal status of a person with legitimate law enforcement.

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Jobs boom: Texas leads the nation in job creation and the unemployment rate drops.

Oil and gas drilling rig count drops in Texas. Chevron wins bit in its takeover of Hess and Hess’s part of the giant Guyana off-shore oil field.

Dems lose their challenge, on appeal, to Texas law that specifies that local government cannot pass laws that contradict state law, they branded it the Death Star bill. 

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