Local officials said Thursday they don’t expect last summer’s surge of Central American immigrants into the Rio Grande Valley to repeat this year.
But if it does happen again, they said they’re ready.
“The message is: We’re prepared,” Hidalgo County Judge Ramon Garcia said at a news conference Thursday. However, he added, “I don’t expect us to have what we had last… Read more »
Local officials said Thursday they don’t expect last summer’s surge of Central American immigrants into the Rio Grande Valley to repeat this year.
But if it does happen again, they said they’re ready.
“The message is: We’re prepared,” Hidalgo County Judge Ramon Garcia said at a news conference Thursday. However, he added, “I don’t expect us to have what we had last… Read more »
The city of McAllen is getting ready for the possible influx of illegal crossers.
The Rio Grande Valley was ground zero during last year’s border surge. Cities, counties and other agencies reacted to the influx.
McAllen Mayor Jim Darling said they are prepared to provide resources if they have a repeat of last year’s surge.
Illegal crossers traveled through McAllen on their journey… Read more »
Local officials said Thursday they don’t expect last summer’s surge of Central American immigrants into the Rio Grande Valley to repeat this year.
But if it does happen again, they said they’re ready.
“The message is: We’re prepared,” Hidalgo County Judge Ramon Garcia said at a news conference Thursday. However, he added, “I don’t expect us to have what we had last… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Mike Conaway on Monday unveiled legislation to end the 40-year ban on exporting domestic crude.
The Midland Republican, along with U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, introduced HR 2369, the Energy Supply and Distribution Act that aims to end the 40-year ban on oil exports. It serves as companion legislation to SB 1312, filed last week by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski,… Read more »
About 450,000 immigration cases in the U.S. are currently backlogged and await a court hearing, according to U.S. Congressman Henry Cuellar.
In many cases, the children and adults who await their hearings are either held in detention centers, such as the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, or are released on bond.
Cuellar said many of them risk not showing up to their court… 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 »
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 »
