Nearly $1 Billion in Funding for Central America, Mexico Included in Omnibus
Included in the more than 2,000 page, $1.1 trillion year-end spending bill released this week is nearly $1 billion in funding for Mexico and Central America, according to Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX)
CAROLINE MAY
In the wake of an ongoing surge of unaccompanied minors and family units illegally entering the… Read more »
In a rare bipartisan compromise on illegal immigration, the next federal budget will provide nearly $1 billion in funding for Mexico and Central America to help stop the flow of undocumented migrants to the United States, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar announced Wednesday.
Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat, said he worked closely with Republican U.S. Rep. Kay Granger of Fort Worth in securing the… Read more »
National Guard Cyber Unit coming to S.A. (San Antonio Express-News)
San Antonio has been chosen for one of the National Guard’s 13 new cyber units.
The decision was celebrated by U.S. Reps. Will Hurd, Joaquín Castro, Henry Cuellar and Lamar Smith, all of whom requested “Cyber City, USA” be considered for the new units.
“The cyber threats our nation faces are real and it makes me… Read more »
Express-News Editorial Board
Published 6:28 pm, Thursday, December 10, 2015
Photo: JERRY LARA /San Antonio Express-News
Michael Fuentes, 24, adjusts his cap while outside the Cubanos en Libertad house in West Laredo last week. The house provides rest and food for Cuban refugees who enter the U.S. at the Laredo Port of Entry. But the so-called ‘wet-foot, dry-foot’ policy, which… Read more »
Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) issued the following statement in response to the announcement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that they will begin the process of expanding their temporary capacity to house unaccompanied children.
“As I have warned repeatedly, we must not take our eye off the ball on the issues of curbing the flow of undocumented… Read more »
BY CBS 4 NEWS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9TH 2015
Most of the unaccompanied children come from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, which have been plagued by gang-related violence. (CBS 4 News)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained nearly 3,500 children who crossed the border last month, more than double the number detained during November 2014.
Concerned about the number… Read more »
By Jessie Degollado - Reporter
Posted: 7:37 PM, December 09, 2015Updated: 7:37 PM, December 09, 2015
SAN ANTONIO - The federal government is planning to add 1,000 beds in Texas and 400 in California for the renewed influx of Central American children in the Rio Grande Valley.
Rockwell County in the Dallas-Fort Worth area is set to accept 300 children ages 12-18 in the… Read more »
Posted: Sunday, December 6, 2015 3:00 am
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles Times | 0 comments
HOUSTON —When Jordanis Perez fled Havana in the spring for the United States, he decided his best chances weren’t by boat to Florida, but by a route increasingly favored by thousands of Cuban migrants: by land to Texas.
The number of Cubans arriving at the… Read more »
Posted Monday, November 30th 2015 @ 6am
Border Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-Laredo) says as the U.S. debates the fate of Syrian refugees, the refugees are coming and will continue to arrive on our southern border, and rather than debate, the country needs to start deciding how to handle the coming flood of desperate people from the Middle East, News Radio 1200 WOAI… Read more »
Jordanis Perez, 31, center, waits for help at Catholic Charities in Houston with fellow Cuban immigrants.
(Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times)
Molly Hennessy-FiskeContact Reporter
When Jordanis Perez fled Havana this spring for the United States, he decided his best chances weren't by boat to Florida, but by a route increasingly favored by thousands of Cuban migrants—… Read more »
