Today Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28) issued the following statement in response to the announcement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that they will begin the process of expanding their temporary capacity to house unaccompanied children. “As I have warned repeatedly, we must not take our eye off the ball on the issues of curbing the flow of undocumented… Read more »

BY CBS 4 NEWS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9TH 2015 Most of the unaccompanied children come from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, which have been plagued by gang-related violence. (CBS 4 News)   U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained nearly 3,500 children who crossed the border last month, more than double the number detained during November 2014. Concerned about the number… Read more »

By Jessie Degollado - Reporter Posted: 7:37 PM, December 09, 2015Updated: 7:37 PM, December 09, 2015 SAN ANTONIO - The federal government is planning to add 1,000 beds in Texas and 400 in California for the renewed influx of Central American children in the Rio Grande Valley. Rockwell County in the Dallas-Fort Worth area is set to accept 300 children ages 12-18 in the… Read more »

Posted: Monday, December 7, 2015 11:42 am By Joe Guzzardi   President Obama is having a rough go these days with his insistence that global warming is the largest contributor to terrorism. A Yale and Utah State University poll found that 90 percent of U.S. counties disagree with the statement that "most scientists think global warming is happening." Another poll indicates… Read more »

LAREDO, TX.- Gracias a la aprobación de una ley federal, puertos aduaneros como Laredo estarán en condiciones de recibir fondos para realizar mejoras en la infraestructura de transportación durante los siguientes cinco años. La ley de infraestructura fronteriza fue aprobada en Washington gracias a los esfuerzos de legisladores como Henry Cuellar, John Cornyn, Beto O´Rourke,… Read more »

Invertirá Texas 18,350 mdd, incluye frontera con México Para los próximos cinco años se destinarán 18 mil 350 millones de dólares para desarrollar infraestructura carretera de Texas que abarcará su frontera con Tamaulipas, Coahuila y Chihuahua, el cual forma parte del Plan de Optimización del Transporte Terrestre de América. WASHINGTON.- Un grupo de senadores y congresistas de… Read more »

COMMENTARY: Congress needs to fill ambassador post to Mexico SEN. JOHN CORNYN AND REP. HENRY CUELLAR | GUEST COLUMNISTS The United States and Mexico share a 2,000-mile border, but our shared connections run much deeper than geographic proximity. Mexico is our third-largest trading partner, with more than $550 billion in trade each year in goods and services since 2013. U.S. exports to… Read more »

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El alcalde de Laredo creará un programa para auxiliar a los indigentes de la ciudad; se basa un modelo que funciona bien en San Antonio     Las cifras oficiales indican que en Laredo un 33 por ciento de la población vive en pobreza. FRANCISCO DÍAZ | 06/12/2015   LAREDO, TX.- Preocupado por las condiciones de vida de los cientos de desamparados que viven en las… Read more »