Vice President Mike Pence, speaking Dallas Wednesday, promised the Trump administration would not be fooled by North Korea's recent promise to work toward denuclearization.

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is considering several Texas military bases as sites for tent cities to house thousands of immigrant children separated from their parents, per McClatchy.

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“The mere fact that a country may have problems effectively policing certain crimes — such as domestic violence or gang violence ... cannot itself establish an asylum claim,” U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions ruled Monday.

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The Texas Senate’s new committee on school violence and security meets today and tomorrow. Lawmakers will hear invited and public testimony both days.

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The lawsuit filed against the Santa Fe shooting suspect's parents aims to hold gun owners responsible for the way they store their firearms around their troubled children. Experts say it fits into a nationwide pattern of gun liability cases that aspire to keep gun owners and manufacturers accountable through fear of high-cost lawsuits.

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"We are ready, and we are taking steps on a daily basis to make sure we will be able to address any challenge coming our way," Abbott told reporters after a briefing President Donald Trump and federal emergency officials.

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With the help of two Texas border Democrats, lawmakers are just three votes shy of having the number needed to bypass House Speaker Paul Ryan and force a vote on “Dreamers.”

On Tuesday, Democratic U.S. Reps. Vicente Gonzalez and Filemon Vela announced they would in fact sign onto the petition another border congressman Republican Will Hurd, originally spearheaded.

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President Donald Trump tweeted Monday that he has “the absolute right to pardon himself," should he be charged as a result of the investigation into possible Russian collusion with his 2016 presidential campaign. But one constitutional scholar — Texas' own U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz — was at a bit of a loss for words when asked about it on capitol hill.

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The San Antonio-area Republican says he has the votes to bring multiple immigration bills to the floor of the U.S. House for debate; a move he expects to happen this month.

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A coalition of Texas-based lawyers filed an emergency request Thursday to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to order the Trump Administration to stop separating immigrant parents from their children at the border.

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