Hurricane Ike Takes Aim at Texas
From: New York Sun | September 10, 2008
McALLEN, Texas With Hurricane Ike steaming into the Gulf of Mexico, Texas emergency officials yesterday stood ready to order 1 million people evacuated from the impoverished Rio Grande Valley and tried to convince tens of thousands of illegal immigrants that they have less to fear from the Border Patrol than from the storm. Emergency planning officials were meeting all day to decide if and when to announce a mandatory evacuation for coastal counties close to the Mexican border. With forecasts...
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