On this week’s Petrie Dish, we dive into the COVID-19 vaccine. First we answer: what is a vaccine? We've all gotten them, but have you ever wondered how they protect you from disease? Vaccine expert Joanne Turner gets into the nitty gritty of how vaccines work and walks us through the history of the first-ever vaccine, which treated another vicious virus that ravaged the world.
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A main cause of our nation’s immigration problems is the immense backlog of cases awaiting resolution. Congress and President Trump would go far in addressing those problems by hiring 100 more immigration judges to process those cases and attack the backlog.
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, whose district reaches into the Rio Grande Valley, wrote the legislation to create the new… Read more »
Half-a-million dollars in federal funds have been secured for small businesses in the Rio Grande Valley to help them through the pandemic, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar announced Friday in a virtual news conference.
A total of $550,000 has been allocated to the South Texas Development Council for small business loans in Webb, Zapata and Starr Counties to help keep their operations… Read more »
Rep. Henry Cuellar announced that the Webb County Head Start and Early Head Start programs will receive over $11.6 million in federal funding during a press conference Thursday.
According to Cuellar, the funding is part of over $10 million that is provided to Webb County with the condition that the head start program operates successfully, with $1.1 million added to help with COVID-19… Read more »
Trump's massive border wall gets all the buzz.
But U.S. Customs and Border Protection is quietly testing a new generation of free-standing surveillance towers on the Arizona border that could revolutionize border security. The telescoping towers are equipped with infrared and daytime cameras, along with laser range-finders and illuminators that can zoom in on a target miles away for a… Read more »
Penitas, TX—Congressman Henry Cuellar (TX-28) announced $13,928.57 in federal funds to the City of Penitas’ Fire Department. These funds, awarded through FEMA’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant Supplemental (AFG-S), will be used to support the health of firefighters during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“During these unprecedented times, we need to support our brave firefighters that are on… Read more »
President Donald Trump’s signature campaign to build a border wall from the Gulf Coast to the Pacific has added only 5 miles of new walls along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Since he took office in 2017, the administration has set aside $15 billion for 738 miles of walls and fencing on the 2,000-mile border, with the money coming from Homeland Security, the Defense Department and the Treasury… Read more »
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic slowed down court systems across the country, the immigration court system had been sagging underneath the weight of hundreds of thousands of people awaiting their day in court.
Now, as the number of backlogged cases has swelled to more than 1.2 million, Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, is hoping new legislation he recently introduced will help alleviate… Read more »
An accurate Census is critical to the proper functioning of our representational democracy. Such data, which is confidential, directly effects the allocation of more than $675 billion in federal funding every year.
It is imperative that all communities are counted accurately and fully in order to provide resources such as health care, housing, and education to all individuals and… Read more »
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The growing backlog of immigration court cases is set to get some relief next year.
The backlog of immigration court cases has expanded at such a significant pace that Congressman Henry Cuellar says there is a major need for immigration judges in the southern border, especially his district.
He says currently there are none in Laredo. Typically, immigration judges… Read more »
