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The 2006 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 2006, to elect the governor of Texas. The election was a rare five-way race, with incumbent Republican governor Rick Perry running for re-election against Democrat Chris Bell and Independents Carole Keeton Strayhorn and Kinky Friedman, as well as Libertarian nominee James Werner.
The 2006 Texas General Election was held on Tuesday, 7 November 2006, in the U.S. state of Texas. Voters statewide elected the Governor , Lieutenant Governor , Attorney General , Comptroller of Public Accounts , Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office , Commissioner of Agriculture , and one Railroad Commissioner .
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2001 — President George W. Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox, friends from Bush’s days as governor of Texas, held high-level discussions on a comprehensive immigration reform plan that ...
The next wave of immigrants arrived in the mid-1980s, prompted by the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act. [2] By 2022, there were over 5.17 million foreign-born people in the State of Texas. [3] Immigration is a major topic in American politics and was a key issue for President Donald Trump. Despite a decrease in the rate of ...
Immigration enforcement has long been the domain of the federal government. Texas is trying to change that. The standoff at Gate 36: Texas sends in the troops to block migrants from seeking asylum
Republican say President Biden's to address the border crisis is an election-year stunt. Democrats worry that it endangers the U.S. asylum process.
Although 2006 was a strong election year for Democrats, Incumbent Republican governor Lingle won re-election by a landslide owing to an economic rebound in the state that occurred during her tenure after a shaky decade for the state economy during the 1990s and early 2000s.