The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a Homeland Security funding bill, including specific language added by Congressman Henry Cuellar. 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… Read more »

January 18 18:012015 by Steve Taylor   WESLACO, RGV – U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar has given his take on the decision by House Republicans last week to link President Obama’s executive orders on immigration to homeland security funding. In an exclusive interview with the Rio Grande Guardian, the Laredo Democrat says he believes that, at the end of the day, there will be a “clean”… Read more »

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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… Read more »