Sandra Sanchez
South Texas Correspondent at Border Report
Border Report Correspondent at Nexstar Media Group
@BorderReportcom South TX Correspondent. Periodista. Murrow & Headliner winner. USA TODAY alum. 2 book author. Focuses: Immigration, border, family & my dogs.
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2 days ago |
wboy.com | Sandra Sanchez
McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement told a Texas border lawmaker this week that 435,000 undocumented migrants with criminal convictions have been released by the agency to cities around the United States. ICE Deputy Director Patrick Lechleitner sent a letter Wednesday to U.S. Rep.
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borderreport.com | Sandra Sanchez
BROWNSVILLE, Texas ( Border Report) - June isn't yet over, but the Department of Homeland Security is already predicting a huge decrease in migrants this month over last of those trying to illegally cross the Southwest border. Usually DHS releases encounter numbers mid-month for the previous month, but in a sign that the Trump administration is very excited over this month's numbers, they have released them before the month is even finished.
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ketk.com | Sandra Sanchez
EDINBURG, Texas (Border Report) — Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins on Wednesday announced what she called a “bold” new a plan to stop the New World screwworm from crossing the border into the U.S. from Mexico. Flanked by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, Rollins said the deadly parasite could devastate ranchers who raise cattle, sheep, goats and horses, should it make its way across the southern border.
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ketk.com | Sandra Sanchez
HARLINGEN, Texas (Border Report) — The State of Texas is putting a pause on new border wall projects but will complete the ones that have already started as it hopes for reimbursement from the federal government for border security costs. During a meeting on Wednesday in Austin, the Texas Facilities Commission, which oversees contracts and construction of the state-built border wall, indicated that it was approaching a cap in funding and border miles. “Two-point-five billion dollars is our wall.
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kxan.com | Sandra Sanchez
HARLINGEN, Texas ( Border Report) - President Donald Trump has approved expanding a vehicular and pedestrian international bridge connecting Eagle Pass, Texas, with Piedras Negras, Mexico. Trump has authorized building a new six-lane span next to the existing Camino Real International Bridge - also known as Bridge II - as part of a fast-track process that is available only to international bridges in select South Texas counties. "This approval is great news for South Texas," said U.S. Sen.
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