HENDERSON — In a special meeting, Rusk County commissioners have voted to pass a resolution against housing illegal immigrants. County Judge Joel Hale says the resolution is not a law, but shows the county’s stance on the illegal immigrant situation. According to Hale, commissioners are simply requesting that if any illegal immigrants are housed in the county, officials have an agreement with the county ahead of time and the county gets reimbursed for the housing. Judge Hale says county officials have not been contacted about housing illegal immigrants. Tuesday’s decision made Rusk County the first county in East Texas to pass an immigration resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HENDERSON — In a special meeting, Rusk County commissioners have voted to pass a resolution against housing illegal immigrants. County Judge Joel Hale says the resolution is not a law, but shows the county’s stance on the illegal immigrant situation. According to Hale, commissioners are simply requesting that if any illegal immigrants are housed in … Continue reading Rusk County Approves Immigration Resolution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 21:08:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309764,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309763\/revisions\/309764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}