Congress reacts to Brussels attack
Posted: Tue 7:32 PM, Mar 22, 2016
By: Peter Zampa
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KGNS) - With the international community on high alert after roughly 30 were killed in Brussels , members of congress discussed how the U.S. Should proceed.
Terror in Brussels has Congress clamoring for answers once again. Answers as to how the United States can keep the… Read more »
Cubans breeze across Texas border; lawmaker believes change is needed
BY MELISSA VEGA MONDAY, MARCH 21ST 2016
LAREDO, Texas -- In the small border town of Laredo, you'll find Cubans sitting on the steps of Cubanos en Libertad, or Cubans in Freedom.
Cubans are entering the United States through Mexico and crossing over to Laredo in record numbers.
News 4 San Antonio caught… Read more »
Here’s how many Cubans have already crossed the US border this year and ‘get to stay,’ Dem admits
March 21, 2016 | John Binder | 0 comments | Print Article
Cubans crossing the southern border into the U.S. are defying all law and order, literally.
Just in the last six months, some 26,000 Cubans have poured into the country and are all… Read more »
Cuban Exodus
BY FULL MEASURE STAFF SUNDAY, MARCH 20TH 2016
LINK TO VIDEO: http://fullmeasure.news/news/immigration/cuban-exodus
March 20, 2016 — Today, President Obama arrives in Havana, Cuba. He will be the first sitting president to visit the island nation since Calvin Coolidge in 1928.
Most Americans have little idea, but an astonishing number of Cubans are surging… Read more »
Border Dem: 93,000 Cubans cross border, 'get to stay, quite honestly'
By PAUL BEDARD (@SECRETSBEDARD) • 3/17/16 1:31 PM
Some 93,000 Cubans have flooded across the border in the last two years, 26,000 in the past six months, and are mostly given a pass to stay in the United States, according to a border Democratic House member.
Rep. Henry Cuellar, discussing… Read more »
Jailers decry cuts in program to reimburse them for holding immigrants
Bill for immigrant prisoners shifts to state, local taxpayers
Sixteen years ago, the Justice Department doled out $563 million to lockups such as Harris County's to oversee immigrants who were in the country illegally and had committed crimes.
It was the most ever paid out by the department's State Criminal… Read more »
U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar (TX-28) met with the visiting delegation from the City of Laredo this week to discuss the city’s federal priorities. Please see photos of their visits below and attached.
Sen. Cornyn and Rep. Cuellar with City Manager Jesus Olivares.
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Editorial: Time to end Cubans' special immigration status
Two GOP presidential hopefuls might not want to hear this, but it’s time for Congress to do away with the special status that grants Cuban migrants the automatic right to legally reside in the United States as soon as they set foot on U.S. soil. There’s no longer anything special about Cuban conditions that should endow them… Read more »
Cubans' Free Ride After Crossing Into U.S. Riles Mexican-Americans (radio interview link below)
Cuban migrants are getting in to the U.S. through Laredo, Texas. Some lawmakers say it's time to remove the special status Cuban migrants have, saying it's unfair to others who face worse hardships.
RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:
With U.S.-Cuba relations on the mend, some Cubans are afraid… Read more »
Trump dominates in Texas border town where proposed wall would be built
Cruz may have taken the state on Super Tuesday, but Trump’s wins along border prove he hasn’t been shunned by Latinos despite controversial immigration plan
A candidate who has described Mexicans as rapists and criminals and whose core immigration plan is to make Mexico pay for a giant wall ought not to prosper on… Read more »
