Local officials said Thursday they don’t expect last summer’s surge of Central American immigrants into the Rio Grande Valley to repeat this year.
But if it does happen again, they said they’re ready.
“The message is: We’re prepared,” Hidalgo County Judge Ramon Garcia said at a news conference Thursday. However, he added, “I don’t expect us to have what we had last… Read more »
The city of McAllen is getting ready for the possible influx of illegal crossers.
The Rio Grande Valley was ground zero during last year’s border surge. Cities, counties and other agencies reacted to the influx.
McAllen Mayor Jim Darling said they are prepared to provide resources if they have a repeat of last year’s surge.
Illegal crossers traveled through McAllen on their journey… Read more »
Local officials said Thursday they don’t expect last summer’s surge of Central American immigrants into the Rio Grande Valley to repeat this year.
But if it does happen again, they said they’re ready.
“The message is: We’re prepared,” Hidalgo County Judge Ramon Garcia said at a news conference Thursday. However, he added, “I don’t expect us to have what we had last… Read more »
About 450,000 immigration cases in the U.S. are currently backlogged and await a court hearing, according to U.S. Congressman Henry Cuellar.
In many cases, the children and adults who await their hearings are either held in detention centers, such as the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, or are released on bond.
Cuellar said many of them risk not showing up to their court… Read more »
Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX28) last week was successful in adding important language in the Fiscal Year 2016 appropriations bill for Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations (T-HUD) that specifies that freight corridors stretch all the way to their land ports of entry at the border. The addition of this language adds land ports to the list of… Read more »
A CBP officer has been named the agency’s employee of the month for her selfless acts in helping a woman who had arrived in Laredo on a diverted flight after her husband had fallen ill mid-flight and later died at a local hospital.
The officer, Ana Agent, was presented with the CBP Laredo Port of Entry April 2015 Professionalism Employee of the Month plaque during a news conference… Read more »
Ante la escasez de recursos, un inmigrante indocumentado tiene que esperar, en promedio, unos 604 días siquiera para recibir una cita ante un juez de inmigración, y las demoras sólo han empeorado desde octubre pasado, según reveló este viernes un informe de la Universidad de Syracuse.
Según datos actualizados por el proyecto “Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse” (TRAC)… Read more »
El congresista demócrata por Texas, Henry Cuéllar, dijo confiar en que 55 nuevos jueces federales de migración serán contratados para sumarse al sistema de Cortes de Inmigración en octubre próximo, a fin de descongestionar los casos pendientes.
“Este sería el mayor incremento y es histórico”, aseveró Cuéllar luego de ser notificado por los líderes del Congreso de que la financiación para… Read more »
Fifty-five new federal immigration judges would be added to the nation’s backlogged immigration courts in October under a new congressional budget plan that passed a critical vote out of a subcommittee Thursday, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, said.
“This would be the largest increase and it’s historic,” the Laredo Democrat said after learning from congressional leaders that the… Read more »
Congressman Henry Cuellar today issued the following statement day after Chairman John Culberson touted the Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) appropriations bill that would include funding for 55 new immigration judges and support staff to reduce immigration backlogs.
The funding was advanced by a voice vote in a House Appropriations CJS subcommittee yesterday as part of a %51.4 billion… Read more »
