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EDINBURG — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will visit the area Tuesday to receive a briefing and provide an update on the ongoing response to the severe weather and flooding the Rio Grande Valley experienced last week.
Abbott will hold a news conference Tuesday morning at the Emergency Operations Center in Edinburg, his press office announced late Monday.
McALLEN — Melania Trump made an unannounced visit Thursday to the Rio Grande Valley, where she toured a children's detention center and got a first-hand look at some of the migrant children sent there by the U.S. government after their families entered the country illegally.
Congressman Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, held a press conference on Monday to discuss topics including border security, NAFTA and family separations.
A child could be separated from their parents within the zero tolerance policy, which was recently implemented to criminally prosecute those crossing the border illegally.
Small broker-dealers are hoping bills introduced in the House and Senate will ease some of the costs of required annual audits.
Under the legislation, small brokers would not have to hire an auditing firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board for their reviews.
Chain link fences, mattresses on the floor and families queuing to be processed -- and oftentimes separated. These are the photos of the processing detention center in McAllen, Texas, that the Customs and Border Protection agency wants you to see.
TORNILLO — World Cup soccer and backyard barbecues were set aside Father's Day morning for hundreds of people who chose instead to descend on this small West Texas outpost that's become famous the last 72 hours for being home to an immigration detention center for children.
Democrats expanded their campaign Sunday to spotlight the Trump administration's forced separation of migrant children from their families at the U.S. border, trying to compel a change of policy and gain political advantage five months before midterm elections.
MCALLEN, Texas — They divided the young children who had been separated from their parents, placing 20 or more in a concrete-floor cage and providing foil blankets, thin mattress pads, bottled water and food.
Rio Grande Valley lawmakers and other local officials continue to urge for a vote on proposed DACA bills.
Congressmen Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15), Henry Cuellar (TX-28), and Filemon Vela (TX-34) announced a $1.5 million grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Education to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley through their Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) Grant program.