By ELLIOT SPAGAT and NOMAAN MERCHANT

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Seven immigration agents filed into a 7-Eleven store before dawn Wednesday, waited for people to go through the checkout line and told arriving customers and a driver delivering beer to wait outside. A federal inspection was underway, they said.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas House has voted to require oil and gas firms to step up efforts to refrain from employing people in the country illegally.