{"id":371268,"date":"2026-07-13T16:14:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371268\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:14:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:14:35","slug":"challenges-of-changing-legal-status-july-13-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371268\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges of changing legal status (July 13, 2026) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-530383 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HMCC-Featured-Image-Dark-Blue-2025-1000x563.jpg\" alt=\"A mint green skyline against a dark blue background with the words Houston Matters with Craig Cohen in white\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Monday\u2019s show: Last week&#8217;s shooting by ICE agents of a Houstonian who had entered the country illegally more than 30 years ago raised, to some, questions about why he had only in recent years sought legal status.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Also this hour: We begin a week-long series examining the state of Greater Houston, starting today with a look at Houstonians&#8217; health.<\/p>\n<p>Plus: We welcome your gardening questions.<\/p>\n<p>And we assess the Houston Astros at the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p>Watch<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday\u2019s show: Last week&#8217;s shooting by ICE agents of a Houstonian who had entered the country illegally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2792,4977,14138,1562,56,58,4978,57,51435,1724,66,223,4979,154],"class_list":["post-371268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-astros","tag-full-show","tag-gardening","tag-health-care","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-matters","tag-houston-news","tag-ice-shooting","tag-immigration","tag-local","tag-news","tag-shows","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}