Mend border immigration law: Our view The Editorial Board,6:17 p.m. EDT July 24, 2014 Flawed child trafficking/labor law generates big business for smugglers. One of the last things George W. Bush did as president was to sign a law to combat child labor and sex trafficking. The measure enjoyed bipartisan support. It was so uncontroversial that neither chamber of Congress ordered a… Read more »

Boehner presses Obama on law that lets child immigrants stay Posted on July 23, 2014 | By Kevin Diaz House Speaker John Boehner sent a letter to President Obama Wednesday asking him to publicly support changes to a 2008 anti-trafficking law that made it harder to deport children from Central America who come to the United States illegally. Although the White House has… Read more »

Swindlers Target Kin of Migrants MIAMI — The federal government is investigating how detailed information about migrant children being held at two American military bases wound up in the hands of con artists who are using it to lure unsuspecting relatives into paying hefty sums to reunite their families, preying on people who have been separated for years, according to the F.B.I. Tens… Read more »

Brownsville assistance centers need donations, despite fewer migrants MGN Online Posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 9:51 pm BY TY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER Congress has yet to signal it will act to address the influx of Central American immigrants in the Rio Grande Valley before the August recess Wednesday, even as officials close to the situation have said the flow of migrants… Read more »

U.S. Law Is Putting Children at Risk A 2008 law for trafficking victims needs an update.   Time to change the process for unaccompanied children who come into the U.S. By Henry Cuellar July 23, 2014 | 9:00 a.m. EDT+ More Over the past two months, I have toured the Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, and the Department of Health and Human Services facility at… Read more »

Texas Rep. Cuellar: No summer break until we deal with border crisis Rep. Henry Cuellar, Texas Democrat, said Wednesday that Congress needs to stay in Washington until they pass something to deal with the influx of unaccompanied minors along the United States’ southern border. “If we don’t finish this by July 31, we should stay here until we get this job done,” Mr.… Read more »

Wilson County News: Cornyn, Cuellar propose HUMANE Act July 23, 2014 | 46 views |  WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and Border Security, and U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, introduced the Helping… Read more »

Study: Currently no 'Downside' for Illegals to Attempt to Get Into the USA Posted Wednesday, July 23rd 2014 @ 11am A study done by the University of Texas at El Paso and headed by the former Chief of the El Paso Sector of the Border Patrol concludes that currently, there is no downside to Central Americans making an effort to get into the U.S., and, as long as that situation continues,… Read more »

Dems reject border 'ultimatums' By Mike Lillis - 07/23/14 12:21 PM EDT House Democratic leaders warned Wednesday that softening a 2008 immigration law to expedite deportations of children would sink any effort to provide emergency funding at the southern border. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), joining GOP leaders in the Senate, has insisted that new… Read more »

Homeland Security secretary won’t take position on National Guard troops in border crisis By Kimberly Railey Members of the media listen as the United States Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson speaks at a press conference on June 30, 2014 in Edinburg, Texas. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Nathan Lambrecht) A day after Gov. Rick Perry ordered 1,000 National Guard troops to… Read more »