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Houston Matters begins at 9 a.m. CT on 88.7FM. You can also listen online<\/a> or watch live on YouTube<\/a>. Join the discussion. Call or text 713-440-8870. Email talk@houstonmatters.org<\/a> or tag us @HoustonMatters<\/a>.<\/p>\n On Tuesday\u2019s show: We have the latest news on voter turnout during primary election day<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n Also this hour: Houston didn\u2019t make the headlines like Minneapolis or Los Angeles for aggressive immigration enforcement this past year, but it felt the impact. More than one in seven Houston-area residents personally know someone who was detained and potentially deported in 2025. We discuss new surveys from Rice University\u2019s Kinder Institute on how Houstonians\u2019 attitudes toward immigration enforcement are shifting.<\/p>\n Then, retired astronaut Butch Wilmore<\/a> joins us to talk about his career, including the nine months he spent on the ISS when his mission was originally only supposed to last eight days.<\/p>\n Then, we discuss why the Trump administration wants to extend the Texas border wall through Big Bend National Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n And we learn about a Texas Tech University archaeology team’s recent discovery of a long-lost Spanish mission site<\/a>, which sheds new light on missionary life in Texas during the 1700s.<\/p>\n Audio from today\u2019s show will be available after 11 a.m. CT. We also offer a free podcast here<\/a>, on iTunes<\/a>, Stitcher<\/a> and other apps.<\/p>\n \t\t\t