Across the Texas workforce, 20% of firms surveyed by the Dallas Fed said immigration policy has already hampered or will hamper both the hiring and retention of immigrant workers this year.
The Texas suburbs have been a major driver of home building, but new housing construction in the state has slowed and single-family housing permits are down 8%.
The two neighbors are bound by a 1944 water-sharing treaty. But much of northern Mexico is in the grip of severe drought, and the country has fallen well behind in its water deliveries.
Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill in the regular legislative session that would have improved local governments’ emergency communications infrastructure.
“I want a house so badly,” said Ashley Ayala of Texas. “But for work, I travel three weeks out of the month... It is very hard for me to justify the largest purchase of my life when I am only home one week a month.”