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Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Compact; Long title: An Act to grant the consent of Congress for the States of Virginia and Maryland and the District of Columbia to amend the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Regulation Compact to establish an organization empowered to provide transit facilities in the National Capital Region and for other purposes and to enact said amendment ...
In his declaration, Abbott cited the Mexico–United States border crisis and the need to secure the border. The Texas National Guard blocked U.S. Border Patrol agents from patrolling the area, which the Border Patrol had been using to hold migrants in recent weeks. [71] [72] After the closure, three migrants were found drowned in the Rio Grande.
The Washington Metro, often abbreviated as the Metro and formally the Metrorail, [4] is a rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area of the United States. It is administered by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), which also operates the Metrobus service under the Metro name. [5]
Migrant crossings in this area have dropped from over 10,000 one December day to about 200 per day recently. In all, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had almost 250,000 migrant encounters ...
Texas taxpayers have shelled out a whopping $10 billion for their state’s border security effort, Gov. Greg Abbott says — and the state can’t afford four more years of chaos at the border.
"The border has always been a consistent point of conflict between state authority and federal authority," said Frazier, who pointed to the February 1861 Declaration of Causes that Texas used to ...
WMATA did launch SmarTrip's online reload feature in September 2011. [41] WMATA allowed customers to load a seven-day unlimited Metrorail pass to their SmarTrip cards in April 2012. [42] All trips made with a SmarTrip card, with the exception of bus transfers and passes, are charged as individual one-way fares.
But this past week, the governor of Texas gave us a heaping helping of the 10th Amendment, the sovereign right of an individual state to preserve the interests of its own citizenry.