During a Fox News town hall here in the capital city this week, Donald Trump eased off his hardline immigration stance, expressing sympathy for those who’ve been waiting years to become citizens. The GOP presidential nominee’s Texas campaign stops top this edition of your Political Roundup.
Donald Trump:
“The people of Texas are proud, they’re independent and they are free.”
Soon after taping that segment with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Trump spoke to thousands of supporters in East Austin, reiterating his calls to build a wall along the U-S – Mexico border.
Donald Trump, (R) Presidential Nominee:
“Every American has the right to live in safety and peace. A Trump Administration is going to restore law and order.”
School districts across the state need not adhere, at least for now, to President Obama’s guidelines on transgender student’s bathroom use.
Siding with Texas and a dozen other states, a Fort Worth judge temporarily blocked the administration’s directive that would allow transgender students to use facilities that align with their gender identity.
UT Austin students made sure they had the essentials for the first day of classes, of course pens, pencils and this year many adorned their backpacks with dildos.
The group, calling itself Cocks Not Glocks, passed out thousands of them in protest of the state’s new campus carry gun law.
Organizers are encouraging students to openly carry the sex toys, which are normally illegal to display around campus, to serve as a vivid counterpoint to the concealed weapons handgun license holders can now legally bring into classrooms and most buildings.
Jacob Pena, UT Austin Student:
“That’s the symbolism of it. I think it’s pretty ridiculous that you can have a gun, but you can’t have a sex toy out. So that’s why we’re strapping up.”
A federal judge denied three UT Austin professors’ attempt to keep guns out of classrooms under the new law. Read more on that and much more online at www.texastribune.org
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