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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 10/06/2026

New from @gaigedavila.bsky.social: "Now, general immigration practice has become habeas corpus. Because for your client to get out of detention, to fight their case out of detention, you have to win a habeas case in most instances."

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A Texas Immigration Lawyer Breaks Down Family Detention, Habeas Corpus, and Senate Bill 4

The revival of the Dilley detention center and a scorched-earth approach to immigration arrests has led advocates to embrace a novel strategy rooted in old law.

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David R. Brockman, Ph.D. @drdrbrockman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Good to hear @gaigedavila.bsky.social on @texasstandard.bsky.social this morning. Very interesting reporting

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 11/05/2026

Featured story, from @gaigedavila.bsky.social: The communities of Laguna Madre have widely rejected a massive liquid natural gas buildout. But special interests are determined to forced the construction through, regardless of the environmental costs.

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The Gas Peddle: Records Reveal How LNG Industry Shaped Brownsville Officials' Support

Special interests spent years influencing city and county leaders’ decisions to ignore Laguna Madre community concerns about a fossil fuel build-out.

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 15/12/2025

New from @gaigedavila.bsky.social: As deep South Texas prepares for its first gas export facility, the Observer has reported out the impacts of LNG facilities in the industrialized town of Freeport and in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.

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Peering Into the Rio Grande Valley’s Fossil Fuel Future

As deep South Texas prepares for its first gas export facility, communities along the Gulf Coast offer cautionary tales.

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Gaige Davila @gaigedavila.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I'm moving to Phoenix next month to attend ASU's Master's in Investigative Journalism program. My plan is to come back to Texas after. It's the worst time to leave, but I can't make a living here right now. On that same note, I need help to get to school. Any donations are appreciated, if you can.

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 08/03/2025

“It changes your life when you get arrested and you see everything that you ever had about to go away because you were trying to provide a living. A lot of these people provide work for people because nobody else wants to do the job.”

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ICE Raids on Beloved Bakery Reverberate Through Rio Grande Valley

Homeland Security Investigations arrests at Abby's Bakery shake up a small town in politically shifting Cameron County.

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Gaige Davila @gaigedavila.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

"Villarreal said that, while SpaceX currently has to go through the county to schedule closures of S.H. 4 and Boca Chica Beach, he’s been informed that the company is in Austin lobbying legislators for the state rather than the county to regulate the closures."

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‘This is going to happen’: Brownsville official tries to appease Starbase election complaints

Brownsville City Commissioner At-Large “A” Tino Villarreal Jr., in a statement following Cameron County’s announcement of an election to decide whether Starbase will be incorporated as a Type C munici...

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Gaige Davila @gaigedavila.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Here is the Starbase boundary from Cameron County, which is largely illegible.

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Gaige Davila @gaigedavila.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The comments on the Cameron County Judge's FB post on the "Starbase" election. Yesterday I noticed that you couldn't see any comments regardless of what filter you selected. Others did too, and now all the comments are visible now. I've never seen this much resistance to the county on a post.

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Gaige Davila @gaigedavila.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Cameron County is holding an official election for incorporating "Starbase." Something interesting: the post says there's over 45 comments, but you can't see them. Others are pointing this out and accusing the Cameron County Judge's office page of deleting comments.

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Office of Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño, Jr.

On Thursday, December 12, 2024, Cameron County received an Incorporation Petition for the city of Starbase, Texas, a Type-C municipality. After careful review of the petition by the Cameron County...

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 10/02/2025

From @gaigedavila.bsky.social, in our magazine: The hope is that the more people who see Boca Chica Beach and feel its connection to the Valley’s collective memory, the more likely it will be saved from further development.

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Remembering Boca Chica Beach—Before Elon Musk Came to Town

Destruction isn't always something physical, but also something done to memory.

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Gaige Davila @gaigedavila.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Hawai'i's state legislature submitted a bill last week demanding the FAA launch a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on SpaceX's Starship program.

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Gaige Davila @gaigedavila.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

NextDecade is trying to expand into Brownsville through an offsite storage yard. At 117 acres, it would include "a single- story office trailer, equipment such as cranes of various sizes and boom heights, and piles of stored materials up to 10 feet in height." elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/fil...

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Texas Standard @texasstandard.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Plans for a massive Rio Grande LNG export terminal along the Texas Gulf Coast have drawn criticism from environmental groups, Native American tribes and others. Developer NextDecade is now seeking support from influential allies to advance the project.

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Brownsville elected officials are doing PR for embattled LNG megaproject

The mayor, county judge and others are parroting talking points provided by liquefied natural gas developer NextDecade, as the company faces another legal hurdle.

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 26/12/2024

A Sierra Club and Greenpeace report estimates that air pollution from currently operating LNG facilities nationwide causes $957 million in health costs and 60 premature deaths a year.

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Brownsville Elected Officials Are Doing PR for Embattled LNG Megaproject

The mayor, county judge, and others are parroting talking points provided by liquefied natural gas developer NextDecade, as the company faces another legal hurdle.

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 21/12/2024

The controversial LNG plant is replacing 984 acres of wetlands northeast of Brownsville in the sensitive Laguna Madre area, a crucial habitat for migratory birds and ocelots separated from the Gulf by the Padre barrier island.

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Brownsville Elected Officials Are Doing PR for Embattled LNG Megaproject

The mayor, county judge, and others are parroting talking points provided by liquefied natural gas developer NextDecade, as the company faces another legal hurdle.

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