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This week on The Texan’s Weekly Roundup, the team discusses: 

• Governor Abbott’s executive order designating fentanyl-trafficking organizations as terrorists
• El Paso’s system for busing noncitizens to sanctuary cities throughout the country
• A police reform activist going after his former ally, the mayor of Austin
• Attorney General Paxton asking Biden to declare fentanyl a “weapon of mass destruction”
• A district court’s ruling that prohibitions on purchasing firearms for those under felony indictment are unconstitutional
• The Bexar county sheriff opening an investigation into Florida governor Ron DeSantis
• The BlackRock CEO touting decarbonization and ESG at a Clinton Global Initiative meeting
• Republicans alleging political interference in the Hunter Biden investigation
• An update in the case about Texas’ prohibition on 18-20 year olds carrying handguns
• The historic number of illegal immigrants apprehended so far this fiscal year
• The Migrant Resource Center in San Antonio flooding the local area with people who crossed the border
• A federal court upholding Texas’ law against social media censorship