Today, Congressman Henry Cuellar (DTX-28) joined the United States Department of Agriculture to break ground on a $6.2 million federally funded project to renovate the Ebony Street drainage system in Roma. These Rural Development funds will be used for storm drainage construction to correct major flooding to residents in the area on Ebony Road. This will improve community access, as well… Read more »

Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX28) announced today that he has successfully included language in the Fiscal Year 2015 Appropriations Bill that will direct the Department of Defense to create an inventory of all overseas military installations and property in an effort to prioritize the closing of overseas bases before any domestic bases.  This report will be used in future Defense… Read more »

Last week, Congressman Henry Cuellar (TX-28) successfully included language in the FY15 Homeland Security Appropriations bill that calls for a review of Customs and Border Protection officer training to ensure agents act with the highest degree of professionalism. This new language requires the Commissioner of the Customs and Border Protection to review training manuals and coursework as… Read more »

The House Homeland Security Committee will take a road trip to South Texas this week to hear testimony on the flood of illegal immigrants from Central America into Texas, Newsradio 1200 WOAI news reports. Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Tx) tells Newsradio 1200 WOAI's  Michael Board that the goal is not to preach politics but to come up with solutions, and he says the number one… Read more »

by Rogelio Mares / KENS 5 SAN ANTONIO -- The First Lady of Honduras joined San Antonio area Congressman Henry Cuellar on a visit, Saturday, to Lackland Air Force Base, where they met with with undocumented immigrants housed there by the federal government. They learned more about the epic journeys many of them took to get to the U.S, some of them making the trip without their parents,… Read more »

Action 4 News has diligently and consistently made calls to the U.S. Border Patrol officials asking to be allowed inside the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol stations. While Action 4 has been allowed inside the Brownsville Border Patrol station for a brief walk through, we have yet to get access inside the McAllen station. The federal agency has been selective with the images they've… Read more »

by Mary Avila Posted: 06.29.2014 at 11:04 AM For Border Patrol agents, the problem doesn’t only lie with the hundreds of thousands of Central Americans crossing into the U.S. illegally, but with the gaps that are being left alone because of the influx. This is serving as a deterrent from the more dangerous criminals, and that’s how the cartels want it. “Just the month… Read more »

by Mary Avila Posted: 06.29.2014 at 11:04 AM For Border Patrol agents, the problem doesn’t only lie with the hundreds of thousands of Central Americans crossing into the U.S. illegally, but with the gaps that are being left alone because of the influx. This is serving as a deterrent from the more dangerous criminals, and that’s how the cartels want it. “Just the month… Read more »

Within one week of meeting one on one with Honduran Ambassador to the United States, Jorge Milla Reyes, Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX28) will be joined this Saturday by the First Lady of Honduras, Ana Garcia de Hernandez as well as Ambassador Milla Reyes to tour the Border Patrol Facility in McAllen and the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio that is housing unaccompanied… Read more »

Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX28) released the following statement today on the passage of the State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Fiscal Year 2015 budget out of Committee: “This week, I worked with the Appropriations Committee to boost funding and support to Mexico and Central America that will increase our ability to stem the flow of illegal immigration and unaccompanied… Read more »