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Rep. Cuellar to Host First Lady and Ambassador of Honduras, Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman in Border Tour

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 minors. 

Rep. Cuellar will also host Chairwoman Kay Granger (R-TX12) of the State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee at both tours.  Chairwoman Granger was recently appointed by House Speaker John Boehner to chair a working group on the humanitarian crisis at the southern border. 

These visits are a follow up to Rep. Cuellar’s June 14th tour of the McAllen Border Patrol facility, in which he invited local officials and met with Border Patrol agents, unaccompanied children, and immigrant families.  Congressman Cuellar was the first Member of Congress to visit the site and this will be the first time a representative of one of the Central American countries that are part of the surge of unaccompanied minors will visit the border. 

Rep. Cuellar, the Honduran delegation, and Chairman Granger will tour the McAllen Border Patrol facility in the morning and Lackland in the afternoon on Saturday.  Press availability will be hosted in both cities following the tours.

EVENT 1:

 

WHAT:               McAllen Border Patrol Facility Press Conference

 

WHO:                 Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX28)

Chairwoman Kay Granger (R-TX12) of the State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Appropriations Subcommittee

                             First Lady of Honduras, Ana Garcia de Hernandez

                             Ambassador of Honduras, Jorge Milla Reyes

 

WHEN:               Saturday, June 28th

                             10:15am-11am CT

 

WHERE:           McAllen Chamber of Commerce

                             1200 Ash Avenue

                             McAllen, Texas 78501        

 

EVENT 2:

 

WHAT:               Lackland Air Force Base Press Conference

 

WHO:                 Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX28)

 

WHEN:              Saturday, June 28th

                             4:30pm-5:15pmCT

 

WHERE:            Lackland Visitors Center

1701 Kenly Avenue

San Antonio, Texas 78236