Dishonest Texas SNAP reporting | Sheridan to make Alamo film for Texas | Immigration news – Pratt on Texas 4/8/2026

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas congressman calls out yet another DC attempt at mass amnesty for illegal aliens; Houston trims its police cooperation with ICE due to Democrat pressure; El Paso County sues for information related to a big immigration detention facility the feds are building, and; Chip Roy wants Obama rule changed related to collecting immigration data in public schools – but why now and not years ago? Well he wasn’t in a GOP runoff for Texas attorney general back then.

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Local government sales tax collection report for April released. Look up your city here.

Texas Tribune’s dishonest headline and reporting picked up by large amount of state’s media: Texas to pay $700 million in SNAP penalties to the feds. No, Texas isn’t to pay $700 million per year. Texas will only have to pay if it doesn’t reduce a specific error rate to under 6 percent by 2027.

Acclaimed Taylor Sheridan to produce & direct Alamo Battle film for new Alamo museum.

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