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Texas Border County Government Coalition Forms to Demand More Help from Austin

UVALDE, Texas – The local governments of Kinney County, Uvalde County, and the City of Uvalde joined to form a commission to help residents negatively impacted by the ongoing border crisis. The local coalition is authorized under Section 391 of the Texas Local Government Code. At the first meeting, commission members demanded action and answers of representatives from the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM).

TDEM Assistant Chief Tony Pena and District Coordinator Fernando Perez

30 Times Border Patrol Agents Rescued Migrant Children in 2021

U.S. policies and the failure to enforce laws have created strong pull factors which encourage migrants of all ages to risk the dangerous journey across the border. Barriers or walls in urban areas encourage those migrants to enter the U.S. in remote and dangerous places where those barriers or walls have not yet been built. Many of those migrants are children, and below are 30 times U.S. Border Patrol agents rescued them in 2021.

Texas Ranger carries a 6-month-old baby who was rescued after being thrown into the Rio Gr

Cuellar on if Border is Closed: ‘Of Course Not’

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) said that while the Biden administration is “slowly moving” in the right direction on border security, the border is not closed. Cuellar said the Biden administration “is

Shutdown FEMA - Henry Cuellar on 5/24/2021 "Mornings with Maria"

Arizona AG Mark Brnovich: Facebook Is a ‘Direct Facilitator’ of Illegal Immigration ‘Catastophe’

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich is calling on the Department of Justice to investigate Facebook for allegedly aiding illegal immigration into the United States by allowing people to post instructions on the social media platform about how to illegally enter foreign countries. Brnovich writes that “”The company is a direct facilitator, and thus exacerbates, the catastrophe occurring at Arizona’s southern border.”

Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy an

EXCLUSIVE: Border Patrol Apprehends 90K Migrants in 18 Days

A source within Customs and Border Protection notes the Border Patrol is off to a record start for Fiscal Year 2022 compared to last October. The source says Border Patrol has apprehended more than 90,000 migrants in the first 18 days of the reporting year–exceeding the 69,049 apprehended in the entire month of October 2020.

Roma October

REPORT: CBP Set to Report Migrant Apprehensions at All-Time High

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials are set to report that Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 1.66 million migrants along the southwest border with Mexico in FY 2021, according to a report from The Washington Post. The record-breaking announcement is expected to include data showing that approximately 1.3 million of the total apprehensions occurred following changes in immigration and border security policies by the Biden Administration in January.

Large groups of Central American migrants freely cross the Rio Grande near La Joya, Texas,