January 15, 2015 By Myra Arthur SAN ANTONIO - U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Dist. 28) said Thursday that improvements have been made along the U.S., Mexico border. “We still have work to do,” Cuellar said. “But if you look the number of people coming across, overall we have the lowest number we've seen in 20 years.” On Wednesday, a bill passed in the U.S. House to fund Homeland Security, but Cuellar ... Read more »
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a Homeland Security funding bill, including specific language added by Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX28). Cuellar’s additions include a call for a review of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer training to ensure professionalism, and the addition of a provision which makes costs of providing care, transportation, and humanitarian relief to un... Read more »
BY DANIEL NEWHAUSER AND RACHEL ROUBEIN January 11, 2015 House Republicans will make their first bet in a long-term political gamble this week, taking aggressive and broad swipes against President Obama's immigration policy in the face of dubious Senate support and a seemingly insurmountable veto threat. Assuaging the conservative wing of their conference, House Republicans will vote to dismantle a... Read more »
Monday, January 5, 2015 11:24 am By Thomas C. Downs and Daris D. Meeks For the 114th Congress, convening Tuesday, Kentucky is the home state of the Senate majority leader; the speaker of the House is from Ohio, and the Senate and House minority leaders hail from Nevada and California, respectively. Yet, a look at key positions of legislative control on Capitol Hill shows tremendous power residing ... Read more »
Updated 01/05/2015 7:14 pm Bruised and battered from a series of scandals, and amid cries of protest, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto will arrive in Washington Tuesday to meet with President Obama and try to turn the page on a difficult year. Slumping in the polls and facing a crisis of public confidence, Peña Nieto is hoping for an Obama bounce. “He’ll be playing as much to a domestic audien... Read more »
Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com Posted: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 10:00 am EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the sixth and final in a 2014 series of Monitor editorials about the challenges of immigration. See videos, photos and read all of our commentary at www.myrgv.com/brokenborders. In 2014, South Texas became the epicenter of an immigration surge unlike any our country has experienced in its ... Read more »
By Susan Carroll December 30, 2014 Updated: December 31, 2014 9:55am The Honduran man walked into the federal courtroom in handcuffs, his burgundy jumpsuit dwarfing his thin frame. The judge read the charge against 42-year-old Pedro Lara-Portillo: aiding and abetting an "alien" to unlawfully enter the United States. With the government's permission, Lara-Portillo had acted as a "sponsor" for a 16-... Read more »
"Combate a corrupción, vital para progreso de México" Ayudará a parar a grupos criminales y generar seguridad, dice Henry Cuellar doris.gomora@eluniversal.com.mx El combate a la corrupción es un tema en el que México debe tener éxito y es necesario para el progreso de ese país, afirmó Henry Cuellar, congresista demócrata por Texas en entrevista con este medio. Además de destacar que el gobierno de... Read more »
Today, the House passed legislation that directs the Department of Defense to continue to focus on combating illicit networking routes in Mexico, Central America, and the rest of the Western Hemisphere. This language was included at the request of Congressman Cuellar in the National Defense Authorization Act. “The threat posed by transnational criminal organizations is so great that we must use al... Read more »
McAllen Monitor: EDITORIAL: Fixes needed to federal immigration court system Eric Gay | The Associated Press Detainees walk in a line at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility, Wednesday, June 18, 2014, in Brownsville. More than 60,000 unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally this past year. Posted: Sunday, November 30, 2014 12:54 pm Editor's Note: This is th... Read more »
