Border Report Live

A nonprofit organization that stresses community involvement and peaceful border solutions is hosting a weekend tour of Eagle Pass, Texas, and the Rio Grande. Amerika Garcia-Grewal, co-director of the Frontera Federation, said their Living River Convening event will give the public a chance to visit the South Texas border and view the river, as well as the Mexican border town of Piedras Negras. Ac...

A new report by the Brookings Institution examines a paradox along the U.S.-Mexico border: the government is spending billions of dollars on border security infrastructure, yet thousands of unincorporated communities known as “colonias” lack basic services such as paved roads, drainage systems, safe drinking water, and access to essential services. The report, titled “As Border Enforcement Expands...

A Texas DACA recipient who was arrested and deported by ICE before being allowed to return to the U.S. only to be rearrested upon re-entry, has been released from detention. José Contreras Diaz, 30, of Edinburg, Texas, as released Wednesday from the Port Isabel Detention Center in the South Texas border town of Los Fresnos, where he had been held since April 29, the national immigration group FWD....

The federal government has begun installing waterborne buoys in the Rio Grande in Laredo, Texas, City Councilwoman Melissa Cigarroa says. Construction began Wednesday, Cigarroa said on Thursday’s episode Border Report Live. She said the council has been told they cannot stop the installation of the giant orange buoys, which are meant to stop immigration from Mexico. But she says they are working h...

The director of a new documentary film about two migrant women who sought sanctuary from U.S. immigration authorities in two Colorado churches for years says that is no longer an option for migrants today. In the latest episode of Border Report Live, Theo Rigby, director and producer of “If I Could Stay/Si Pudiera Quedarme” tells South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez and host Rudy Mireles about...

Newly unsealed U.S. indictments accusing sitting Mexican politicians and senior law enforcement officials of drug trafficking and corruption are impacting Mexico’s political system. On the latest episode of Border Report Live, host Rudy Mireles speaks with Ev Meade, director of Proceso Pacífico, about the unprecedented case involving a sitting governor, a senator, a city mayor and multiple high-ra...

The proposed elimination of Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants would cause economic and societal hardships to the United States, a professor said on this episode of Border Report Live. The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on why the Trump administration wants to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of people from other countr...

The recent arrest of a cartel leader has sparked a rash of violence in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas. The capture of Alexander Benavides Flores, known as “El Metro 9,” a leader within the Gulf Cartel, has triggered armed confrontations and blockades in Reynosa and the surrounding area across the border from McAllen, Texas. The violence prompted the State Department to issue travel warning...

During a recent congressional oversight visit to a migrant detention facility that holds pregnant youth in San Benito, Texas, U.S. Rep. Maxine Dexter, D-Oregon, says she didn’t see one child. Dexter says she was told that there were seven youth at the facility, which is overseen by the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of Refugee Resettlement. That includes two who are pregnant, two...

The Carnalismo National Brown Berets RGV Chapter is continuing a tradition of helping farmworkers on the South Texas border as it rallies the community against what they call unlawful arrests and detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Residents unhappy border wall popped up so close to their new homes In this episode of Border Report Live, chapter leader Elizabeth Rodriguez and mem...

The 17th death of a migrant held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention so far this year raises serious concerns on oversight and how for-profit facilities are operating, Syracuse University professor Austin Kocher says. Kocher joined South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez and host Rudy Mireles on the latest episode of Border Report Live to break down ICE detentions and deaths dur...

At least three days a week, Jesuit Catholic priest Brian Strassburger goes to Mexico to celebrate Mass and minister to asylum-seeking migrants in towns south of the border, and those living in migrant shelters. In the latest episode of Border Report Live, Strassburger joined South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez and host Rudy Mireles live in the studio to talk about the people he serves in the...

A Venezuelan man pleaded his case to asylum officials on Thursday in an interview that his wife, a well-known doctor in South Texas, planned to attend until she was detained at the airport with the couple’s 5-year-old daughter. Milenko Faria was interviewed at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices near Los Angeles, while his wife, Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar, entered her sixth day in immig...

Over 600 people signed up for a webinar on Wednesday evening to learn how to monitor and thwart U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement expansion activities in local communities. The “ICE Out Everywhere” free webinar was hosted by the nonprofit group States at the Core (STAC) and drew 600 people from 35 states, STAC co-director Jill Garvey told Border Report. The “training is really a step beyond...

A new report by two nonprofits says that conditions at the nation’s largest migrant detention facility operating in South Texas are “inhumane.” The report “A New Era of ICE Family Prisons” by Human Rights First, and Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, Inc. (RAICES) says the thousands of migrant families held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center outside San Antonio...

The parents of an 8-year-old girl who died in Border Patrol custody in 2023 in Harlingen, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the federal government with the help of several nonprofit organizations. The Texas Civil Rights Project, Haitian Bridge Alliance, and Texas A&M University School of Law Civil Rights Clinic on Friday filed the lawsuit on behalf of Mabel Estanislada Alvarez Benedi...

The author of a new book on family separation and migration during the first Trump administration spoke with dozens of families and children from Latin America who spent months apart due to U.S. immigration policies. In the latest episode of Border Report Live, Gabrielle Oliveira, author of “Now We Are Here — Family Migration, Children’s Education, and Dreams for a Better Life” spoke with South Te...

The Border Report team this week said goodbye to not one but two correspondents — Salvador Rivera and Julian Resendiz. Both joined host Rudy Mireles throughout the week to look back on the past six or seven years and some of the work that put them on the frontlines of the immigration debate. Border Report launched in the summer of 2019. Salvador joined the team to help cover the vast San Diego-Tij...

The Trump administration recently ordered the state of California to revoke the commercial driver’s licenses of thousands of immigrants, and there’s no telling when or if they’ll get them back. According to CalMatters, multiple lawsuits have been filed to restore those trucking licenses, but none have been successful. Adam Echelman, of CalMatters, reported that as many as 61,000 California truck d...

The Border Report correspondents join host Rudy Mireles to discuss some of the topics they’ve covered in the past several years. Border Report launched in the summer of 2019. San Diego correspondent Salvador Rivera, joined the team in early 2020, just as the COVID-19 pandemic was taking hold on the nation. Along with El Paso correspondent Julian Resendiz and South Texas Sandra Sanchez, the three c...

Two South Texas lawmakers on Tuesday toured a federal detention facility in this border town where pregnant migrant teens are being sent, some as young as 13. U.S. Reps. Vicente Gonzalez and Joaquin Castro, both Democrats, spent about an hour inside the facility, which is located downtown and across from San Benito’s museum. After the tour, Gonzalez said they wanted to make sure the pregnant teens...

As the city of El Paso, Texas expands the issues of immigration and cartel violence grow with it. El Paso correspondent Julian Resendiz looks back at the city he has covered for Border Report for nearly a decade. As he moves on in his journey, he examines the biggest stories that have impacted El Paso, Juarez and the surrounding communities that straddle two nations separated by a river.

An inspection of the nation’s largest immigration detention facility, located in West Texas, has found dozens of violations of national standards, while there are reports that the United States is halting buying more warehouses nationwide to convert into detention facilities. In this episode of Border Report Live, host Sandra Sanchez discusses her reporting on a detention facility located in San B...

Thousands of Mexicans are traveling to U.S. cities along the Southwest border to enjoy the beach, shop, and visit with relatives and friends during this Holy Week, known as Semana Santa, prior to the Easter holiday. In many parts of the border, many Americans travel south to Mexico during Holy Week. In this episode of Border Report Live, El Paso correspondent Julian Resendiz and host Rudy Mireles...

Whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the U.S. illegally will be up for debate in Supreme Court this week. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday over the constitutionality of Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, which he signed on Jan. 20, 2025, the first day of his second term. The justices will hear Trump’s appeal of...