Office of Public Affairs | Justice Department Files Complaint Against the State of Texas for Illegally Placing Floating Buoy Barrier in the Rio Grande | United States Department of Justice — Read on www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-complaint-against-state-texas-illegally-placing-floating-buoy

The U.S. Department of Justice made good on its warning last week that it would sue Texas unless the state agreed to remove the barrier in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass. — Read on www.texastribune.org/2023/07/24/texas-border-rio-grande-floating-barrier-greg-abbott-lawsuit/

City of Eagle Pass, Texas Mayor Rolando Salinas, Jr. signed a “Criminal Trespass Affidavit” in his personal capacity instead of his official capacity declaring the City-owned Shelby Park as “private property,” authorizing the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) “to enforce the criminal trespass statute, Section 30.05 of the Texas…

Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the 1,000-foot barrier to be deployed in the river near Eagle Pass earlier this month. The Justice Department gave Texas until Monday to commit to removing it. — Read on www.texastribune.org/2023/07/21/texas-border-floating-barrier-rio-grande-greg-abbott-justice-departmen/

Hart Blanton, the head of the university’s department of communications and journalism, also said then-President M. Katherine Banks interfered with the recruitment of journalist Kathleen McElroy. — Read on www.texastribune.org/2023/07/21/banks-tamu-journalism-hire/

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2023 The City of Eagle Pass International Bridge System is applying for an amendment to its United States Presidential Permit with the U. S. Department of State to allow it to expand its six lane Camino Real Bridge permit to…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2023 The Eagle Pass High School Eagles and C. C. Winn High School Mavericks officially kicked-off the 2023 Texas high school football season on Monday, July 31, 2023, with the opening of two-a-day practices at their respective campuses. The Eagles…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2023 A Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Trooper working as a medic during June 24 to July 1, 2023 in Eagle Pass, Texas as part of the Governor Greg Abbott’s controversial Operation Lone Star Program witnessed a litany of…

The Office of the Inspector General is investigating the claims, which include pushing small children and women with nursing babies back into the river and turning away a 4-year-old girl who later passed out on the riverbank from the heat. — Read on www.texastribune.org/2023/07/18/texas-troopers-department-public-safety-migrants-rio-grande-border/

Por: Selene M. Calderón. En lo que va del 2023 han fallecido 47 migrantes en su intento por cruzar ilegalmente a Estados Unidos, de los cuales 33 son de orígen mexicano y 14 todavía se encuentran en proceso de ser identificados.De dichos casos de fallecimiento, 22 se registraron en el…