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A raid on Abby’s Bakery in Los Fresnos heralded the crackdown to come. Ahead of the owners’ trial for “harboring” undocumented workers, the community is seeing the impact of the president’s policies.Most mornings, Leonardo Baez, a father of seven, wakes up hours before sunrise to mix bread dough in the border city of Los Fresnos, Texas. Punishing and laborious work, yes, but owning a beloved bakery has been a lifelong dream of his, he said.It is now in jeopardy.In February, federal agents swooped down on his shop, Abby’s Bakery, detained workers they said were in the country illegally and pressed...

The Texas Freedom Coalition, a network of conservative advocates, made several requests to various sources for information pertaining to data collected regarding COVID-19 hospitalizations in the unvaccinated versus the vaccinated. These requests followed several articles published throughout Texas and the nation proclaiming that Texas hospitals were rapidly reaching capacity with unvaccinated coronavirus patients and that it is now a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” Information received by TFC in response to the inquiry tells another story entirely. Texas hospitals and Texas Public Health Agencies neither collect or report data related to Covid-19 hospitalizations in the vaccinated vs. the unvaccinated. Although various...