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 »
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 »
Los embajadores de El Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras, países que integran el Triángulo Norte de Centroamérica, se reunieron en Washington con congresistas de Estados Unidos para tratar asuntos relacionados con el desarrollo de la región que impulsan los tres países latinoamericanos.
Así lo informó hoy una fuente de Relaciones Exteriores en Tegucigalpa, que además señaló que la reunión se… Read more »
Sometime this fall, Congress will have to vote again on increasing our nation's debt limit. We have already exceeded the current $18.1 trillion limit, but through various bookkeeping gimmicks, the Treasury can postpone default for a few months — but not indefinitely. We have seen this picture show before, and we know how it ends.
The House, by a vote of 226-197, and the Senate, by a vote… 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 »
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 »
