Houston immigration advocates โcautiously optimisticโ about reform efforts
HOUSTON โ Many Houston-area immigration advocates and families are hopeful President Joe Biden can enact sweeping immigration reforms. Cloud, who is in favor of immigration reform, is talking about backlogs in immigration court and with U.S. AdFoster has worked with Republican and Democratic administrations on immigration reform. These types of legal challenges are why immigration advocates are only cautiously optimistic about reform. Plus, many remember pledges for immigration reform from President Barack Obama that never came to fruition.
New taskforce to review city of Houstonโs Independent Police Oversight Board as part of reforms
HOUSTON โ A new task force on police reform, announced Wednesday by Mayor Sylvester Turner, will take a closer look at the cityโs Independent Police Oversight Board. Douglas has long pushed the city for an oversight board that initiates itโs own investigations and takes its findings to the District Attorneyโs office, which is something the board cannot do right now. โItโs a nice thing to say we have a citizensโ review board, but if they canโt do anything itโs just window dressing,โ he said. He told KPRC 2 that board members are unpaid volunteers who review about 275 cases each year. The board canโt start its own investigations, only review cases provided by HPD.