Border Report Live

Republicans in Washington are trying to undo long-held protections for immigrants. In this episode of Border Report Live, host Rudy Mireles discusses how Republicans are ramping up talks to overturn the Supreme Court decision that gave children of people living in the country illegally rights to a free public education. Also this week, Supreme Court will hear arguments over President Donald Trump’...

On this episode of Border Report Live, the increasing number of Mexican immigrants dying in U.S. custody, hundreds of migrants rescued from a locked trailer, a growing number of unaccompanied migrants youth crossing the border, and the state of Texas says it’s done building and paying for border walls. El Paso correspondent Julian Resendiz and host Rudy Mireles discuss the anger Mexican officials...

Several members of the Austin City Council are awaiting a response from the city manager regarding how to address federal immigration policy and enforcement. The city council members sent Austin City Manager TC Broadnax a memorandum titled, “Protecting the People of Austin from Unconstitutional and Violent Federal Operations.” The memo has five directives, which include exploring ways to prohibit...

Environmental groups and business leaders are pushing back against the federal government’s plans to put border wall and “smart wall” through the Big Bend region of West Texas. Maps on U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s website on Monday show orange lines, which indicate “smart wall” technology through much of the region, but some border wall is still expected to go through Big Bend Ranch State...

The detention and deportation of immigrants who lived in the United States for years and have now been sent to Honduras is causing family separations and irreparable psychological and physical harm to children, according to a new report by Physicians for Human Rights and the Women’s Refugee Commission. Dr. Michele Heisler, medical director for the nonprofit Physicians for Human Rights, details the...

Republican Oklahoma Markwayne Mullin is facing tough questions on Capitol Hill as he faces lawmakers who will decide whether he will be the next Department of Homeland Security Secretary. Sen. Rand Paul, the Republican from Kentucky, has made clear he has little regard for President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, fellow Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin. He says...

The construction of a $3 billion new oil refinery on the South Texas border near expanding SpaceX and under construction LNG facility, as well as new border wall being built and border buoys put in the Rio Grande are concerning environmentalists. In this episode of Border Report Live, Jim Chapman of the nonprofit Save RGV tells South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez and host Rudy Mireles of the...

Reimbursing tariffs on goods from other countries, and giving rebates to American consumers for the higher costs associated with those tariffs, was discussed on the latest episode of Border Report Live. So far, several Democratic lawmakers have filed two bills in Congress that would give tariff rebates to reimburse consumers for price increases due to tariffs imposed in 2025 by President Donald Tr...

Dozens of license plate readers have been popping up in Southern California, especially near the border, and they’re raising concerns with privacy experts, civil liberties advocates and humanitarian aid workers.   According to CalMatters, the license plate readers are being operated by the Border Patrol and other federal agencies that were granted permits by the state of California. The news agenc...

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow with the American Immigration Council, says the Trump administration has eliminated almost all legal pathways for asylum-seekers wanting to enter the United States. Reichlin-Melnick appeared on Border Report Live on Wednesday. He tells South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez and host Rudy Mireles that it is effectively impossible to seek asylum at the souther...

The lawyer for a member of McAllen High School’s mariachi on Tuesday discussed how he helped get him released from an ICE detention facility and what he endured in this Border Report Live exclusive. Efrén Olivares, of the National Immigration Law Center, tells South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez and host Rudy Mireles how Antonio Gamez-Cuellar, 18, was arrested with his two younger brothers, C...

A member of a high school mariachi from McAllen, Texas, was released from immigration detention Monday afternoon after public outcry prompted a Republican congresswoman to go to the facility and help get him out. Word of Antonio Gamez-Cuellar’s release from the El Valle Detention Facility on Monday in Raymondville, Texas, broke as Border Report Live started. U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz, R-Texas, w...

A bishop from Southern California has been arrested on suspicion of embezzlement and was reportedly seen at a brothel south of the border. Bishop Emmanuel Shaleta, 69, was reportedly arrested moments before boarding a flight out of the country. According to FOX5/KUSI in San Diego, Shaleta, 69, of the diocese of St. Peter the Apostle, was arrested on suspicion of embezzling hundreds of thousands of...

The sudden firing of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday reverberated from the halls of Congress to border communities. Trump on Thursday posted on social media that he’d let Noem go and had replaced her with Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma. “Current Secretary, Kristi Noem, who has served us well, and has had numerous and spectacular results (especially on the Border!), will be m...

Primary elections held Tuesday in Texas had some surprising results, especially in border districts where Democrats are vying to gain ground in a state they have not held statewide office in since 1994. In Texas’ 23rd Congressional District 23, incumbent Rep. Tony Gonzales faces a surprising May 26 runoff for the Republican nomination against YouTuber and firearms manufacturer Brandon Herrera afte...

While many hailed last week’s killing of Jalisco cartel boss Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera as a great day in the fight against drugs in the U.S. and Mexico, one border expert is saying “not so fast.” Ev Meade, historian and the director of Proceso Pacífico, which runs peacebuilding programs in Mexican and Colombian communities impacted by cartel violence, tells Border Report Live simply killing “ca...

Illegal migration remains near historical lows along the U.S.-Mexico border. But a group of volunteers continues finding skeletal remains on a stretch of desert in New Mexico. Battalion Search and Rescue leaders say they have located 100 sets of skeletal remains there in the past two years. Most of the remains appear to be women, group founder James Holeman said. “It’s a shocking number, it’s a sh...

About 50 people gathered Thursday at a park on the edge of downtown Brownsville to peacefully protest the buoy barriers that the federal government is installing nearby in the Rio Grande. They played a life-sized game of lotería, passed out aguas fresca in the 90-degree heat, and hit a piñata in the shape of a red border buoys full of candy. “The Department of Homeland Security is actively install...

President Donald Trump delivered the longest State of the Union address ever given to Congress on Tuesday night and included several references to immigration and border issues. In the latest episode of Border Report Live, host Rudy Mireles and South Texas correspondent Sandra Sanchez break down how Trump pushed for an end to sanctuary cities, sought voter ID reforms and touted what he calls the “...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is purchasing dozens of warehouses for immigration detention facilities in communities across the country, sometimes in secret and unknown to local leaders. In the latest episode of Border Report Live, David Hernandez, associate professor and co-chair of the Critical Race and Political Economy Department at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts talks with...

Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes has been in the crosshairs of Mexican law enforcement since at least 2015, when his associates allegedly shot down a military helicopter in Jalisco, Mexico, and killed nine soldiers. But it wasn’t until Sunday that Mexican troops found the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and ended his life in a hail of bullets. The obvious question is why now? Mexican army ki...

Several Democrats are expected to skip President Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night, and some have even planned a counter event. Trump will address Congress on Feb. 24. The Democrats’ event, which will features speeches from lawmakers, will take place at 8:30 p.m. on the National Mall, according to several reports. During this latest episode of Border Report Live, Pablo Manriquez,...

An event that brought people from all over the country in 2025 to retrace the route of the Underground Railroad from South Texas to Mexico is returning. Roseann Bacha-Garza, manager of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s Community Historical Archaeology project with Schools (CHAPS) joined Border Report Live to discuss the upcoming three-day event being held Feb. 27-March 1 that starts in A...

Mexican officials tell Border Report they’re considering putting a boom in the Tijuana River Valley to catch trash and stop it from crossing into the United States. After days of heavy rain in Southern California, the smell in the border area is overwhelming and a gubernatorial hopeful who visited this week wants to declare it a state of emergency. California correspondent Salvador Rivera brings e...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids near schools and in communities are taking a toll on children and their ability to learn, according to a recent lawsuit. The National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) filed the emergency motion in federal court in Oregon to stop ICE from conducting enforcement operations near schools, colleges, churches, hospitals, and o...