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A federal judge is expected to rule quickly on the constitutionality of a Texas law about to go into effect that institutes new state penalties for illegal border crossings. During a hearing last week, U.S. District Judge David Ezra said he had concerns that other states would follow Texas’ lead in creating their own immigration laws – a power given exclusively to the federal government under the U.S. Constitution.
Lone Star Confederates beat the daylights out of the Yankee rearguard in the New Mexico Territory on Feb. 21, 1862 and took a giant step toward winning the West for Richmond.
Twenty-one years after the Santa Fe Expedition ended in death for a few and dungeons for many more, Texans were back in New Mexico. This time their mission was not to annex the land for the Lone Star Republic but to conquer it for the Confederacy.
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