Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX28), member of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, was successful in adding language into the Fiscal Year 2016 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill. The language in the bill, which passed Tuesday, would bring more transparency within Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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The manhunt is on for escaped drug kingpin Joaquin "el Chapo" Guzman, and when he's caught again, there's a growing push to send him to the United States where he'll stand trial.
"Without a doubt, once he's caught, the U.S. is going to push even harder to get him extradited," Congressman Henry Cuellar tells Newsradio 1200 WOAI.
The member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on… Read more »
The question on everyone’s mind now, aside from where he may be hiding, is should the United States get involved?
Many weary that stepping on México’s toes could be dangerous, others urging that ‘El Chapo’ be extradited here once he’s found.
Experts are discussing the importance of whether or not the drug kingpin should be extradited to the United States, if or when he’s… Read more »
El Chapo Guzman is on the loose, and the United States government is responding to his escape from a Mexican prison.
People on both sides of the border breathed a sigh of relief watching El Chapo's arrest last year.
That relief was suddenly taken away.
El Chapo Guzman, the leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, has been free and on the run since Saturday night.
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Donald Trump sees himself as a martyr to the truth. All he did was point out that among the foreigners who have come to this country are some who do not scrupulously abide by all our criminal laws — only to be pilloried for his honesty.
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” he said when he announced his presidential campaign. “They’re bringing drugs. They’re… Read more »
U.S. and Mexican authorities concerned after two helicopters were attacked in two separate incidents in less than one month by members of cartels near the border of Tamaulipas.
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Nuevo Laredo, Tam.- La modernización del puente internacional II Juárez-Lincoln es prioridad para el gobierno de Nuevo Laredo, por lo que al igual que la vecina ciudad de Laredo, estaría pugnando para lograr un acuerdo con autoridades federales y así por medio de inversión cien por ciento municipal realizar esta magna obra,
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Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX28) Today honored the efforts of nine U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Rio Grande Valley Sector who made split-second decisions that helped save the lives of those in need.
Congressman Cuellar met with U.S. Border Patrol Agents at the McAllen Patrol Station on June 22, where he provided them with Congressional Certificates of Recognition and discussed the… Read more »
Congress has approved funding for 55 new Immigration Judges nationwide, and U.S. Rep Henry Cuellar (D-Laredo) says many of the judges will be stationed here, to relieve the backlog of immigration cases following last summer's surge, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.
"San Antonio, Dilley, and a couple other places will be getting more immigration judges," Cuellar said.
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In less than two years, the number of Texas-based immigration cases stuck in federal courts has swelled by about 60 percent.
Through April of this year, about 77,000 immigration cases in Texas were still meandering through the system. That’s one spot below California’s 89,300, and an increase of 58 percent since October 2013, according to data compiled by the Transactional… Read more »
