The addition of 55 new federal immigration judges could significantly put a dent in the backlog of immigration cases currently stalling our courts and costing American taxpayers millions of dollars each year.
An increase in the number of judges by this amount — which would raise the number of judges nationwide to 296, up from the current 241— could affect meaningful immigration reform by… Read more »
The stack of cases at Texas' overburdened immigration courts grew by nearly 60 percent since October 2013, bringing the state's pending cases to a record high of nearly 77,000, making it the largest backlog in the country after California.
Nationwide it now takes an average of 604 days to process an immigration case, according to an analysis of federal data through April by Syracuse… Read more »
Lisa Brodyaga, an immigration lawyer in San Benito, near the southern tip of Texas, took a walk to the banks of the Rio Grande recently to survey land for a legal case.
The landowner had warned her to be careful about traversing the remote and brushy terrain. It was thought to be a hotbed of smugglers and illegal border crossers. So she was surprised by what she saw: Nothing.
"We never… Read more »
El congresista demócrata por Texas, Henry Cuellar, 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 Cuellar luego de ser notificado por los líderes del Congreso de que la financiación… Read more »
El congresista demócrata por Texas, Henry Cuellar, 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 Cuellar luego de ser notificado por los líderes del Congreso de que la financiación para… Read more »
For the past few months, we've put a call out on Opinion pages for writers who are interested in writing for us regularly via our Board of Contributors. Today, we are pleased to announce the 20 who have been selected to serve on this inaugural board, listed below.
All come from different industries and vocations and have varied interests and hobbies. In our first group meeting on… Read more »
The child-sized blue jeans lay twisted and forlorn in the scrubland along one of the most popular routes for undocumented migrants crossing from Mexico into Texas.
Chris Cabrera surveyed the scene from his white pickup truck. A border patrol agent for 13 years, he knows how to spot the clues, some obvious – like the jeans – others more subtle, like the flattened grass nearby… Read more »
With two sitting congressmen, the McAllen mayor, city manager, a city commissioner, the presidents of the McAllen Economic Development Corporation and McAllen Chamber of Commerce, Mission EDC officials, and RGV Partnership Chamber of Commerce officials all attending a press conference to show off the completed expansion of the McAllen International Airport on Tuesday morning, it was… Read more »
Now that McAllen has created a sleeker and more modern airport, the next step is using it to strengthen cross-border relationships to ensure economic vitality, according to economic leaders.
McAllen has completed its $26.5 million terminal expansion project at its International Airport in order to offer passengers a roomier, modernized and secure setting. Now the challenge becomes… Read more »
McAllen-Miller International Airport recently completed a major $26 million expansion.
The project modernized the passenger terminal and added 55,000 square feet of new space to the existing 100,000-square-foot building.
“When you have a large, growing population like we have here in the Valley, it was easy to decide there should be an investment,” said U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a… Read more »
